Alba Margarita {Art & Illustration}

About Alba Margarita

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In my artwork I strive to convey my inner reality and those thoughts I have trouble expressing with words, as well as to exorcise anger, resentments, anxieties and even celebrations about my experience of being born female. I am deeply inspired by female surrealists like Remedios Varo, Lenonora Carrington, Leonor Fini and others: I feel that womanhood is and always has been a deeply surreal experience, rife with uncertainty, danger, witchcraft, sensuality, love, intuition, and a sense of repressed Goddesshood. I paint primarily on black canvas, as I feel like I am drawing out all these ideas that yearn to be expressed out of the shadows.

 

 

Artist C.V

 

Education:

 

• Currently pursuing a Certificate in Illustration at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

 

Exhibitions:

 

• Salon de Paris, group exhibition. 4Art Inc., Zhou B. Brothers Art Center, Chicago IL, September 2014-October 2014.

• Monster Madness, group exhibition, Blick Art Materials (Lincoln Park), Chicago IL, October 2014-November 2014.

• Naked And Not Afraid, group exhibition, Jackson Junge Gallery, Chicago IL, January 2015-March 2015

• Core Project Presents: Going Dutch, group exhibition, Flat Iron Arts Building, June 2015.

• Autotelic West Open Studios, Chicago Artist Month event. Autotelic West, Chicago IL, October 2015

• FMK 5X5 & Locallective Present: Indelicate, juried group exhibition. Locallective, Chicago IL, November 2015.

• Oddities Online Art Show, juried group exhibition. Linus Galleries, Online/Los Angeles CA, November 2015

• Oddball Fundraiser, group exhibition. Odradek Theater Company, Chicago, IL, November 2015

• ADENTRO: An International Women's Month Art Show and Artist Talk. Olín Studios, Chicago, IL, March 2016

• OPEN Surreal Exhibition, OPEN Center for the Arts, Chicago, IL, March 2016

 

Bibliography:

McClellan Zhoushi, Erin (creative director); Zhou B. Art Center: The Journey of Dreams; 2014