Alvaro has a collection of magnificent museum-quality paintings that were exhibited in a one-man show in 1996 at the McAllen International Museum in McAllen, Texas. The show was titled Mythic Paintings.
Nine of the paintings are based on the Egyptian Isis Osiris myth. Deep rich earth tones with touches of luminescent paint depict parts of the story of Isis/Osiris as well as the myth’s origins in Africa; some of them are loose canvas gessoed to a stretched canvas, so that it appears as though the painting was done on a parchment.
The other five pieces in the show are inspired by Buddhist sutras with the feeling of what the sutra means or intends as the focus. All of the mythic paintings are very large and to be in the presence of even one of them is profoundly moving.
Very few people have had the chance to see these works. They are not pieces we want to sell on our website, but we recently decided to dedicate one page on the site to them in order that more folks have the opportunity to see them. It is not the same, of course, to see them as images on the web, as to be in their presence, but we are pleased to have them seen at last.
So please go to our website www.cardonahinegallery.com and click on Cardona-Hine’s Museum Paintings. I will be adding one painting each week more or less until I have all fourteen of them up. I hope you enjoy them.
