Artists' Fellowship - 2000
(Concordia Foundation Fellow)
Painting
Artist Statement:
Alfredo Arcia paints with both fine detail and monumental form to define motifs in his realistically rendered allegorical oils. Using subjects as diverse as the biblical Jonah or a modern day border flight, he speaks metaphorically about his own experience. "My work is about humanity, the whole theater of the world with its truths and follies. This is why a story, a narrative, is always present in my paintings. The social, political, religious, the absurd and grotesque all together are enough reason for me to explore all human contradictions."
More about the Artist:
Participated in the exhibition Buying Time: Nourishing Excellence at Sotheby's, New York, from June-July 2001.
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