Artist Information:
Oscar Alvarado
San Antonio, TX
United States
Member Since: Nov 2006
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Artist Statement:
Mosaic artist Oscar Alvarado
is currently creating
large-scale sculptures made
with steel armatures filled
with concrete, then
intricately covered in
thousands pieces of tile,
glass and found objects.
During his 20-year career
Alvarado has covered walls,
water features, and other
public spaces in South Texas
with tile. His work along San
Antonio’s Riverwalk is seen
by 4 million people every
year. He also works in smaller
proportions, reusing discarded
household items and
transforming them into
striking mosaic hanging art.
His first public art project
was “Llave,” in 1999, a
tile mural on the exterior of
the Antonio E. Garcia Center
for the Arts, commissioned by
the South Texas Institute for
the Arts while Alvarado was
the artist-in-residence at the
South Texas Art Museum. As
part of this residency, he
also taught children to create
with tile. For that piece, a
six by twelve-foot wall mural,
Alvarado used hundreds of keys
he’d collected in various
ways a meta- depiction of one
of the children he had taught,
making her own mosaic.
“Just by giving a single
key, donors felt a sense of
ownership to this public art
piece,” says Alvarado.
Another quote about how ...
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Oscar Alvarado's Free Artist Portfolio
Welcome to Oscar Alvarado's Portfolio. Browse Alvarado's body of work: Mosaic artist Oscar Alvarado is currently creating large-scale sculptures made with steel armatures filled with concrete, then intricately covered in thousands pieces of tile, glass and found objects.
During his 20-year career Alvarado has covered walls, water features, and other public spaces in South Texas with tile. His work along San Antonio’s Riverwalk is seen by 4 million people every year. He also works in smaller proportions, reusing discarded household items and transforming them into striking mosaic hanging art.
His first public art project was “Llave,” in 1999, a tile mural on the exterior of the Antonio ... |
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