| Alex Chavez |
"A graduate of fine arts from California State University Fullerton, I've painted for most of my career. Using acrylic and watercolor to paint portraits and murals. But shortly after moving to Taos, New Mexico in 1997 I started working digitally to accurately describe what I saw in my minds eye." -AC
Alex's images are composed as a digital photo montage and are mixed media works stretched on canvas embellished with acrylic paint, gold leaf, and occasionally traditional collage methods to create unique individual works of art.
Alex creates by recombining, cutting, pasting, and altering old paintings in an attempt to create new myths, icons, saints and gods for these modern
times.
Exhibitions
National Look at the Day of the Dead - Self Help Graphics Los Angeles CA 1996
Retablo Painting Workshop - Millicent Rogers Museum Taos, NM 1997
Visions of the Virgin - Big Sun Gallery Taos, NM 1998
La Santa Cruz - Big Sun Gallery Taos, NM 1998
Mother Father Child - Big Sun Gallery Taos, NM 1998
Santo's y Diablos Show - Stables Gallery Taos, NM 1999
Works on Paper - Stables Gallery Taos, NM 1999
The Best of Taos: No Boundaries, No Barriers - Taos, NM 2000
Intermediate 2001 - Santa Fe New Mexico 2001
Fall Arts Festival - Taos, NM 2003
First Annual Taos Digital Art Show - Taos NM 2007
Digital Art Show University of Nebraska - - 2007
New Mex - Now Mix, National Hispanic Cultural Center - Albuquerque, NM 2008
Beauty Inside - Surrealist Show, 105 Studios Downtown Albuquerque 2008
Arte de los Muertos - Bernallio, NM 2009
Taos Invites Taos - Taos, NM - 2009
Saints & Sinners - Kimo Gallery - Albuquerque, NM 2009
Go downtown Contemporary Arts Festival - Albuquerque, NM 2003-2009
Contemporary Hispanic Market - Santa Fe NM 2004-2010
Scary a group show at the Jennie Cooley Gallery Santa Fe, NM 2009
The Dark Side group show 105 Studios Albuquerque, NM 2009
Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, international "Top 40" show, 2010
Awards
Award of Merit, Illustrator West 20 - Los Angeles CA 1992
Honorable Mention, Albuquerque State Fair 1997
Best of Show, Taos County Fair 1998
Macworld National Tour of 12 Digital Artist 1999
Best of Digital Art, Contemporary Hispanic Market - Santa Fe NM 2004
Best of Digital/Photography, Contemporary Hispanic Market - Santa Fe NM 2005
Publications
Illustrator West 20 1992
Tempo Taos New Mexico Arts & Entertainment Magazine 1998
Macworld Digital Artist Compendium 1999
Tempo Taos New Mexico Arts & Entertainment Magazine 1999
Popular Photography Digital Imaging Guide 2002
Albuquerque Alibi Weekly Arts & Entertainment Magazine 2002
Tempo Taos New Mexico Arts & Entertainment Magazine 2002
ABQarts Albuquerque Monthly Magazine of the Arts 2003
Pasatiempo Santa Fe New Mexico Arts & Entertainment Magazine 2005
Tempo Taos New Mexico Arts & Entertainment Magazine 2005
Pasatiempo Santa Fe New Mexico Arts & Entertainment Magazine 2009
IQ Albuquerque Weekly of the Arts & Entertainment` 2009
Pasatiempo Santa Fe New Mexico Arts & Entertainment Magazine 2010
Tempo Taos New Mexico Arts & Entertainment Magazine 2010
Books
“Newicons” self published book of 13 images and text by the artist.
“Saints and Sinners” self published mini portfolio of 18 images.
Public Engagements
Regular guest speaker, Art History Class, the University of New Mexico -Taos
Acquisitions
Museum of International Folk Art, Contemporary Latino Collection. Santa Fe, NM
National Hispanic Cultural Center, Permanent Collection - Albuquerque , NM
Production Set of "Breaking Bad" an original AMC television series
Original and hand embellished micro-editions on canvas by Alex Chavez are available exclusively in Santa Fe, NM at POP Gallery. Contact us directly to add this prolific artist to your collection at 505.820.0788 or artinfo@popsantafe.com.
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