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Pedro Diego Alvarado-Rivera: Recent Paintings

Past exhibition
May 21 - July 15, 2011 San Antonio
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Pedro Diego Alvarado-Rivera Mandarinas, 2011
Pedro Diego Alvarado-Rivera
Mandarinas, 2011

Ruiz-Healy Art is pleased to present an exhibition of new work by Pedro Diego Alvarado-Rivera, his first in the United States. “Since it's a show for the United States, I wanted to repeat themes that were of interest to me,” Alvarado says.

 

Most of the works in the show are still-lifes of fruit — chirimoyas, mandarins, limes, star fruit, cactus pears — nestled in crinkled tissue paper the way they are displayed in Mexican markets, piled high in a basket (“Jitomates en canasta”), or painted against a dramatic black background (“Sandia”). “I think it's a very good way to meditate about form, shape,” Alvarado says of still-lifes. “It's a pretext to work with color, light, form. They could be abstract paintings.”

 

In other works, he explores the Mexican landscape, including rural vistas in paintings that shows the stark Mexican light, and others, where tentacle-like arms of magueys reach toward a cloudy sky. Because of the subject matter, these works, more than any others in the exhibit, call to mind the work of some of the giants of Mexican art, including, of course, his grandfather Diego Rivera.

 

“I made a series of still lifes — pumpkins with corn,” he says. “I was fascinated by it. And I thought, ‘Well, I'll keep on doing still lifes until I do something else.' But the thing is I've been doing it for 20 years.” He laughs. “It's an unending project.”

 

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Works
  • Pedro Diego Alvarado-Rivera Mandarinas, 2011
    Pedro Diego Alvarado-Rivera
    Mandarinas, 2011
  • Pedro Diego Alvarado-Rivera Plátanos Machos, 2011
    Pedro Diego Alvarado-Rivera
    Plátanos Machos, 2011
  • Pedro Diego Alvarado-Rivera Sandias, 2010
    Pedro Diego Alvarado-Rivera
    Sandias, 2010
  • Pedro Diego Alvarado-Rivera Paisaje de los Tuxtlas, Veracruz, 2011
    Pedro Diego Alvarado-Rivera
    Paisaje de los Tuxtlas, Veracruz, 2011
  • Pedro Diego Alvarado-Rivera 3 Chirimoyas, 2011
    Pedro Diego Alvarado-Rivera
    3 Chirimoyas, 2011
  • Pedro Diego Alvarado-Rivera Magueyes y Toros de Maíz, 2010
    Pedro Diego Alvarado-Rivera
    Magueyes y Toros de Maíz, 2010
  • Pedro Diego Alvarado-Rivera, Las Huellas de las Pencas, 2010

    Pedro Diego Alvarado-Rivera, Las Huellas de las Pencas, 2010

  • Pedro Diego Alvarado-Rivera Limones con Fondo Rojo, 2011
    Pedro Diego Alvarado-Rivera
    Limones con Fondo Rojo, 2011
  • Pedro Diego Alvarado-Rivera Jitomates en Canasto, 2011
    Pedro Diego Alvarado-Rivera
    Jitomates en Canasto, 2011
  • Pedro Diego Alvarado-Rivera El predicamento de San Gabriel, 2010
    Pedro Diego Alvarado-Rivera
    El predicamento de San Gabriel, 2010
  • Pedro Diego Alvarado-Rivera Cielo de Tormenta Sobre Teotihuacán, 2011
    Pedro Diego Alvarado-Rivera
    Cielo de Tormenta Sobre Teotihuacán, 2011
  • Pedro Diego Alvarado-Rivera Tunas Rojas, 2010
    Pedro Diego Alvarado-Rivera
    Tunas Rojas, 2010
Publications
  • Pedro Diego Alvarado: Recent Paintings

    Pedro Diego Alvarado: Recent Paintings

    Essay by John Phillip Santos 2011 Read more

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