Her imagery combines iconography of primitive cultures to depict the paths to enlightenment. Like many primitive, outsider painters, Alquilar began her work after the sudden death of her husband that resulted in the fracture of a strong family structure.
Maria Alquilar
metal art, ceramic art and painting exposition
"Looking inward to an imaginative world of fantasy inspired by her Latin-American and Russian background, Maria Alquilar creates a personal mythology with universal appeal. Attended by radiant angels and and tearful mermaids, a vibrant bestiary of mythical animals populates Maria's intense narratives. Maria's richly detailed paintings and sumptuously stained and patinated metal sculpture draw inspiration from Russian Icons and Mexican Retablos They bring together mythic elements from many cultures, transformed by her vivid imagination into strong works that remind one of Rousseau and Frida Kahlo, but are unremittingly her own. Catholic symbolism, animism of tribal cultures and elements of Maria's own history come together in her paintings. A cross cultural mixture of myths also pervades Maria's metal sculpture. The icon like metal wall art has a deep, mysterious luminosity. "....art critic-Victoria Dalkey...Sacramento Bee, CA.
Alquilar's, primitive paintings, ceramic sculpture, ceramic installations, metal sculptures and lithographs are owned by corporations, Museums, Private, City and Federal Art Collections in the United, Mexico and Italy.
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