Overview
Collection Information
Size: 5 Items, audiovisual files (4 hrs., 50 min.), digital, mp4
Summary: An interview with Candida Alvarez conducted 2023 July 12-26, by Mary Thomas for the Archives of American Art, at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in New York, New York.
Biographical/Historical Note
Candida Alvarez (1955- ) is a painter known for her inventive use of materials on the canvas and her broad exploration of painting's ability to record experience through figuration and abstraction. Born in Brooklyn, Alavrez is now a tenured professor at the School of the Art Institute Chicago.
Provenance
This interview is part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and administrators.
Language Note
English .
Funding
Funding for this interview was provided by the Alice L. Walton Foundation.
