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Double-sided painting by Candida Alvarez, Here to There, from "Air Paintings" (2017-19); left image: front, right image: back; (latex ink, acrylic, enamel, and glitter on PVC mesh with aluminum and wood; 81" x 71" x 26"; 2018). The image illustrates a key later body of work in Candida Alvarez's career in the 2010s, when she produced a series of large, double-sided "Air Paintings." The paintings were made of partly translucent PVC-mesh material and suspended from freestanding aluminum frames. They combined printed collages of digitally manipulated drawings with gestural applications of latex ink, glitter and paint, and painted fields of geometric, organic and camouflage-like forms. The image shows both sides of a single painting, the front (left) and back (right). These works were publicly exhibited in prominent venues and discussed in major art journals and daily press publications.

Artist Candida Alvarez. Copyright held by the artist.

Candida Alvarez

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The image serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a key later body of work in Candida Alvarez's career in the 2010s: her large-scale, double-sided "Air Paintings," which employed multiple visual idioms and referenced loss, seasonal cycles and the effects of climate change—in particular, Puerto Rico’s devastation by Hurricane Maria. She created them by printing collages of digitally manipulated images from her studio practice onto the mesh, which she then modified with gestural applications of latex ink, glitter and paint and painted fields of chevrons and camouflage-like forms. Because the article is about an artist and her work, the omission of the image would significantly limit a reader's understanding and ability to understand this later stage and body of work, which brought Alvarez continuing recognition through exhibitions in major venues and coverage by major critics and publications. Alvarez's work of this type and this series is discussed in the article and by critics cited in the article.

There is no free equivalent of this or any other of this series by Candida Alvarez, so the image cannot be replaced by a free image.

The image will not affect the value of the original work or limit the copyright holder's rights or ability to distribute the original due to its low resolution and the general workings of the art market, which values the actual work of art. Because of the low resolution, illegal copies could not be made.