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"Mi Familia de Calaveras" a.k.a.
As she began sketching out the remaining pieces for her calaveras series, she came upon a completely serendipitous event,"from my college printmaking class, and I had exactly 4 full pieces of that same paper I used in 2003 - 2004 when I started the series, plus a sheet that I tore into." Usually, leftover paper for artists is an exiting event, but this time it was an artistic omen: "As I worked and looked at my previous prints, it was a funny thing, that's when I FULLY realized that those calaveras I had been sketching in my notebook were REALLY my aunts and uncles." Is it irony or fate? Ingrid continues, "My mom had four brothers and four sisters... One miscarriage/still born sister, which nobody ever talked about."
This clearly gives Ingrid chills as she shares this revelation, "Even as I had the previous calaveras stacked in my studio with Calavera Rosa facing me, I ALSO noticed that I had never done anything with the rest of that paper from my college Monoprint class. I had nine full pieces all together and enough for archivally mounting three small prints that already have a home in three shadow box frames!"
The color palette has also changed from a warm vibrant predominantly red/pink hued background to cooler tones of blue and green. She continues to play with variations of light and dark inks within these new blue and green hued calaveras prints. While Ms. Alvarez McNeely's Calaveras Series Part I created in 2004 and Part II re-approached in 2007 may seem as two separate bodies, they really are a unification of her family. Her family of prints as well as her beloved and missed matriarchal side of her famlia. Fate and faith have a strange way of working with artists as they thread together works. In 2006 and 2007, fate and faith seemed to just be waiting for a true family reunion. From Ingrid's hands, her mother's family are able to face one another, even in death the feeling of amor, fidelity and caring are true characteristics of both her existing 2004 calaveras and newly pressed calaveras family members.
for more on Ingrid Alvarez 's Calavera's series, also see the article "Las Calaveras: Looking At Ingrid's Calaveras Series." - - - - - - - - - - - * Ingrid's work has been shown with the Casa de Artes, a Seattle based Latino arts collective who hosts an annual Dia de los Muertos fine art exhibit. at the Seattle Center. In April 2007, her Calaveras series was featured in the "Dia Del Amor y Las Perdidas" group show at the La Famila Gallery. The show featured three upcoming Latina artists. -- LAS CALAVERAS ARTICLE BY M. VENIEGAS |
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