Ashton Cooper on Lisa Alvarado – Artforum
Alvarado’s commitment to exploring repetition and abstraction offers a site of meditative regeneration for those who encounter it.
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Alvarado’s commitment to exploring repetition and abstraction offers a site of meditative regeneration for those who encounter it.
Lisa Alvarado. Charlie Gross When visual artist Lisa Alvarado seeks inspiration, she’s inevitably drawn back to her grandmother’s house on the South Side of San Antonio, where she spent much of her childhood. Painted in glowing pastels and smelling of botanica candles, the home had an outsized impact on her life and work. “My welita created colorful laces and stitched fabrics that were wrapped upon all of her surfaces: tables, pillows, couches, and all changed out frequently,” Alvarado says via Zoom from her home studio this past winter. Not that it’s easy to tell it’s her painti...