Candida Alvarez’s Solo Exhibition Covered by New York Times

Candida Alvarez, professor emerit in the Painting and Drawing department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), was recently featured in the New York Times. She is the subject of a major solo exhibition at El Museo del Barrio in New York. Candida Alvarez: Here showcases four decades of her richly textured, color-saturated paintings that blend abstraction with personal and cultural memory. The show coincides with Parallel Lives at Gray New York, a joint exhibition with late painter Bob Thompson. After teaching at SAIC for several decades, self-described “Diasporican ” Alvarez continues receiving long-overdue recognition for her contributions to contemporary painting.