Candida Alvarez: Circle, Point, Hoop
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Candida Alvarez: Circle, Point, Hoop
This exhibition examines Alvarez’s artistic practice, bringing together rarely seen works spanning five decades of her career in the first large-scale museum survey of her work.
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El Museo del Barrio
April 24, 2025 to August 03, 2025
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Exhibition Details

Candida Alvarez’s (b. 1955, Brooklyn, New York) engagement with painting, drawing, and collage has uniquely advanced a non-hierarchical relationship between abstraction and figuration, thoughtfully interweaving formal exploration, personal narrative, and conceptual strategies.

Alvarez emerged in the New York art scene of the late 1970s, focusing on figurative artworks that directly referenced her experience as a female Diasporican artist in a predominantly white male art world.

Additional Details

The sections within the exhibition demonstrate how the artist’s core formal and conceptual tropes emerged from specific bodies of works and particular moments of her career.

The exhibition’s title, which is drawn from a 1996 artwork, evokes the recurrent theme of circles in her work and the symbolic and literary interplay that shapes Alvarez’s multidisciplinary practice.

Location

El Museo del Barrio
1230 Fifth Avenue (at 104th Street)
New York, NY 10029

Image: Candida Alvarez, Estoy Bien, 2017. Latex, ink, acrylic, and enamel on PVC mesh with aluminum, 77 x 135 x 26 in. Collection of El Museo del Barrio, New York. Gift of the Acquisitions Committee with the additional support of Bob Clark, Martin Nesbitt & Anita Blanchard, and Mark & Allyson Rose. Photograph by Martin Seck / Courtesy of El Museo del Barrio, New York.