Alvaro Alvarez
Alvaro Alvarez (born San Jose, Costa Rica, 1965), is an artist, working primarily as a painter. He is based in Melbourne, Australia. Career, themes and style Alvaro Alvarez's recent work combines painting and drawing, based on images from books, magazines and old calendars. After careful examination of this content, Alvarez recreates the imagery in his paintings using a methodical process of fine brushwork and soft lines. Layers of these techniques are often visible on the surface of a finished work where Alvarez has erased evidence of early mark making to begin again, giving the artworks an ethereal quality. As the Sydney Morning Herald writes of Alvarez's practice, "Alvaro Alvarez creates rippling, vibrant paint and texta abstractions from images found online." Alvarez has exhibited his work internationally and throughout Australia and currently practices at Melbourne studio Arts Project Australia. Alvarez is an important figure in Australian outsider art and has exhibited his works across Melbourne Arts Centre, the Museum of Everything in London and Campbelltown Arts Centre and Monash University Museum of Art. Solo exhibitions 2005 Alvaro Going Solo, Arts Project Australia Gallery, Melbourne Selected group exhibitions 2016 Signature Style, Arts Project Australia, Melbourne Tell 'em I'm dead, Arts Project Australia,