Candida Alvarez
Candida Alvarez is widely regarded as one of her generation's most highly innovative and experimental painters. She makes paintings and drawings that blur the boundaries between the conceptual, the intuitive and the abstract. Complex and vibrantly layered with color and shapes built from combinations of abstract and figurative forms rich in memory, painting history and references to everyday life.
Artwork: Licking A Red Rose, 2020
Acrylic on linen
84 x 72 in. (213.4 x 182.9 cm)
Collection Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Gift of Katherine S. Schamberg by exchange, 2021.4.
Photo: Tom Van Eynde, courtesy the artist and Monique Meloche Gallery