Discipline: Visual Art

Candida Alvarez

Discipline: Visual Art
Region: Brooklyn, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1986
More: www.candidaalvarez.com
Candida Alvarez is an American painter. She is a tenured professor of painting and drawing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where she has taught since 1998. Alvarez was born in Brooklyn, New York. She earned a B.F.A. from Fordham University in 1977 and studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 1981. She earned her M.F.A. from Yale School of Art in 1997, and studied at the European Graduate School, Saas-Fee Switzerland from 2010-2012. Alvarez is a painter known for her complex vibrantly layered combination of abstract and figurative forms rich in pop, historical, and modern art references, incorporating world news and personal memories. Her works display a fascination with the aesthetics of cartoons, kitsch, and the hand-crafted. Alvarez's works have included sculptures, collages, abstraction, and figuration, with materials as diverse as fabric, acrylic paint, enamel, galkyd, on various surfaces from canvas to cotton napkins and vellum.

Studios

New Hampshire

Candida Alvarez worked in the New Hampshire studio.

New Hampshire Studio, originally named Peterborough Studio, was given to MacDowell by Mr. and Mrs. William Schofield, Mrs. H. A. Chamberlain, Mrs. Andrew Draper, and Miss Ruth Cheney. The studio was renamed in 1943. The Gilbert Verney Foundation established an endowed maintenance fund in 1990, and a bequest in memory of MacDowell Fellow Victor Candell underwrote the…

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