Alonsa Guevara Explained

Alonsa Guevara
Birth Date:December 13, 1986
Birth Place:Rancagua, Chile
Field:Painting
Training:New York Academy of Art, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile

Alonsa Guevara (born 1986)[1] is a Chilean contemporary realist oil painter[2] living and working in New York City. Her paintings are a depiction of imaginary worlds that mix fantastical and believable traits.

Biography

Alonsa Guevara Aliaga was born in Rancagua, Chile[3] and grew up for 7 years in the Ecuadorean jungle,[4] before moving to the United States in 2011. She began making art at the age of 12.[5] She studied at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile and for a Masters at the New York Academy of Art, before being awarded their Fellowship in 2015.[6] She lives in New York City, where her work has been featured by publications such as VICE,[4] Business Insider[7] and TimeOut.[8]

Style & themes

Guevara's early works focused on constructions of invented worlds containing characters in the form of female fashion models, represented as crumpled paper,[9] the intricate structures of fruit, representing "desire, fecundity, and fertility",[7] and included homages to other female artists such as Judy Chicago.[10] Her current works juxtapose tropical fruits and mostly female nudes to represent life-cycles, the connection between humankind,[11] nature and spiritual themes.[12]

Exhibitions

Awards & residencies

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Alonsa Guevara . New York Academy of Art . 23 June 2021.
  2. Web site: Art Zealous’ 30 Under 30-ish: Part 1. ArtZealous. 2018-04-15.
  3. Web site: Alonsa Guevara’s Lush Oil Paintings Offer Imaginary Rites. HiFructose. 2018-04-15.
  4. Web site: These Fruit-Filled Paintings Are Ripe (in More Ways Than One). VICE. 2018-04-15.
  5. Web site: DUETS: A Comparison of Realities at Fort Works Art. ArtNewsDFW. 2018-04-15.
  6. Web site: Alonsa Guevara: Desire and Painting The Paradoxes of Life. Created. 2018-04-15. https://web.archive.org/web/20180416012634/https://create-magazine.com/features/alonsa-guevara-interview. 2018-04-16. dead.
  7. Web site: Artist who lived in a rainforest for 7 years paints incredibly realistic fruit portraits. BusinessInsider. 2018-04-15.
  8. Web site: See photos of Alonsa Guevara's lush, magical paintings. TimeOut. 2018-04-15.
  9. Web site: Alonsa Guevara shows a new brand of beauty. The Day. 2018-04-15.
  10. Web site: Alonsa Guevara - Three Women. AnnaZorinaGallery.com. 2018-04-15.
  11. Web site: Alonsa Guevara Aliaga - Bio. AlonsaGuevara.com. 2018-04-15. https://web.archive.org/web/20180416012615/http://www.alonsaguevara.com/biography. 2018-04-16. dead.
  12. Web site: Alonsa Guevara Espiritu . AnnaZorinaGallery.com . 2018-04-15.
  13. Web site: Beyond Figuration Group Exhibition at Chengxi Contemporary Art Center, China . VisualArtists.ie. 2018-04-15.
  14. Web site: Take a Peek at One of Fort Worth's Newest Art Galleries. FWTX.com. 2018-04-15.
  15. Web site: Showcase Collection of Small Works at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, co-curated by Island Weiss Gallery and Diana Corvelle. IslandWeiss. 2018-04-15.
  16. Web site: Fellowships. NYAA.edu. 2018-04-15.

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