FRUTOS DEL TIEMPO / THE FRUITS OF TIME 

Nov 2 - Dec 15, 2024
Brownsville Museum of Fine Arts 
660 E Ringgold St, Brownsville, TX 78520, United States


“Frutos del Tiempo” presents a variety of artworks by Chilean-American artist Alonsa Guevara, exploring the artistic and spiritual “fruits” that have emerged from her journey over the years. Featuring paintings and sculptures made from 2018 to the present, this exhibition invites viewers into a celebration of the beauty and complexity of the natural world, examining the deep connections between nature, humanity, and spirituality. As a Latin-American woman whose life has unfolded across Chile, Ecuador, and the USA, Guevara uses her art to explore identity, belonging, and womanhood. Her works offer a personal understanding of beauty, blending reality with fantasy to create an immersive, multi-sensory experience. With a ceremonial and ritualistic ambiance, her pieces pay homage to fertility, spirituality, and life cycles, commemorating the enduring connection between humankind and nature—one that has evolved and adapted through time.

RELATOS DE ORIGEN / ORIGIN STORIES

Aug 28 - Oct 5, 2024
Anna Zorina Gallery

532 W 24th St, NYC, 10011

Anna Zorina Gallery is pleased to announce Relatos de Origen/Origin Stories, Alonsa Guevara’s fourth solo exhibition with the Gallery. The show features the artist’s latest series of paintings centered on exploring new beginnings and the various kinds of origin stories. These narratives include birth, but also the important moments and milestones that profoundly shape our identities, ones that often result in a sense of rebirth. Guevara’s paintings connect these personal accounts with archetypal tales that have resonated throughout humanity for millennia in order to tap into the collective unconscious, revealing the shared emotions that connect us all to our origins.

Guevara’s artistic journey began in the Ecuadorian jungle where she spent her formative years developing a profound respect for nature and learning the magical legends that warned of the jungle’s dangers. The artist incorporates the country’s native Ilora into her imagery to honor her upbringing while also recognizing her Chilean heritage through representing vegetation such as Chile’s national Ilower, Copihue (Chilean BellIlower); and national tree, Araucaria Araucana (Chilean Monkey Puzzle). To continue the commemoration of new beginnings upon her life path, Guevara integrates natural elements representative of the other countries that she has called “home” including the United States and the United Arab Emirates.

Guevara’s compositions feature a vibrant blend of elements from nature interlaced with ethereal, human-like Iigures to portray a deep connection between humanity, nature, and spirituality. Her artistic process begins with unique monotype prints, in which spontaneous brushstrokes on a wet surface are pressed onto canvas. Shapes and objects emerge organically from within the unexpected interactions of paint.
With a Magical Realist style, Guevara delves into themes of miraculous birth; family union and the promise of new beginnings; desire and sexuality; growth; resilience and transformation; death; rebirth and the continuity of the cycle of life. This series invites viewers on a journey through the wide array of "Origin Stories” with each painting serving as a portal that reveals how our shared experiences inform our identities and unite us in the richness of life.


For further information, artwork availability and images, please contact:

Marie Nyquist 

212-243-2100 

marie@annazorinagallery.com

COUNTING LEAVES

Feb 26 - Apr 25, 2023
Tashkeel Alserkal Avenue - Warehouse 58

Dubai, UAE

Since Tashkeel opened its doors 15 years ago, it has facilitated residencies for 80 artists, curators and designers from over 30 countries, offering practitioners time and space away from usual surroundings and obligations to embark on journeys of personal growth and professional development.

Through her practice, Chilean-born, New York-based artist Alonsa Guevara questions notions of womanhood, identity and belonging while embracing the connection between humankind and nature. Her main inspiration derives from the experiences of living in three different countries (Chile, Ecuador, USA), and is especially impacted by the formative memories of her childhood spent living in the rainforest with her family.

Alonsa has spent the last 10 months in residence at Tashkeel, researching, experimenting, creating, teaching and engaging with the UAE’s creative community. For her first solo show outside the Americas, she has created a substantial new body of work exploring correlations between the natural world and human behaviour. Conceived and created in Dubai, each work is a testament to the universal power of nature and its instinctual, irrevocable bond with humanity. Inspired by the seemingly contrasting arid and tropical environments of the Middle East and South America, Alonsa explores a common natural heritage and examines the integral role trees play in the ecosystem of shared dependence evolved over millennia.

From the ghaf to the olive, the pomegranate and fig, Guevara portrays each tree, plant and fruit imbued with symbolism that resonates across continents; representations of peace, stability, friendship, loyalty, prosperity, well-being and everlasting life – shared signifiers that transcend time, place, cultures and creeds to unite humanity. In ‘Counting Leaves’, the artist invites us to be present; to look beyond the superfluous distractions of the urban metropolis and reflect upon one’s profound connection to the natural world.


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