Breast, Navel, Eye

Breast, Navel, Eye

Candida Alvarez

1993

Materials

Color lithograph

Size

Triptych, each 21 1/2 x 21 1/2 inches

Racine Art Museum, Gift of Marshfield Clinic and Kohler Foundation, Inc.

About the artwork.

In her early work, Candida Alvarez created representational paintings largely inspired by her Puerto Rican heritage and experiences in urban settings. Her later work became much more abstract and is credited as “advanc[ing] a non hierarchical relationship between abstraction and figuration, thoughtfully interweaving formal exploration, personal narrative, and conceptual strategies,” as seen in Breast, Navel, Eye.