Skip to main content
Trellis Art Fund

Our mission is to support the creative work of individual artists through unrestricted grants, professional support, and community.

Candida Alvarez

2024 Milestone Grantee

Bio

Candida Alvarez is widely regarded as one of her generation’s most highly innovative and experimental painters. Her work has been collected by the Art Institute of Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Whitney Museum, San Jose Museum of Art, El Museo del Barrio, among others. She has been granted the Arts and Letters Award in Art by the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Mellon Foundation Latinx Artist Fellowship, Helen Frankenthaler Award for Painting, and the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painter and Sculptors Grant. Alvarez is an alum of Yale School of Art, and was the first Latina woman to hold the F.H. Sellers Professorship in Painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she is now Professor Emerit. Alvarez is represented by Monique Meloche Gallery.

Artwork controls

Artwork details

Weeping Cows

, 1981Acrylic on paper38-1/4 × 27 inches
Weeping Cows, 1981. Acrylic on paper. 38-1/4 × 27 inches.

Artwork

  • A painting showing two floating, bull-like figures in white, red, blue, and green against a dark, speckled background.
  • An abstract painting composed of overlapping organic shapes in saturated blues, reds, greens, pinks, browns, purples, and white. The forms interlock and float against a predominantly blue ground, creating a layered composition with soft edges, hard edges, and irregular contours. Painting is installed on a well lit white background.
  • An abstract painting installed floating on an aluminum structure, composed of two triangular support legs. The painting is composed of overlapping organic shapes in pinks, browns, black, greens, blues, and with white outlines incorporated. The forms interlock and float against a predominantly pink background, creating a layered composition with soft edges and irregular contours.
  • Abstract painting with irregular shapes in blue, orange, black, and yellow tones, featuring overlapping forms and various textures on a light background.

2024 Milestone Cohort Grantees

    Join our mailing list for grant announcements, news, and updates.