Artists Salvador Andrade Arévalo
FALL 2022 RESIDENT · SEP – NOV
Salvador Andrade Arévalo
Painting, drawing, installation · New Haven, CT
Salvador Andrade Arévalo is an artist born in Jalisco, Mexico, and raised in the Chicago area, who describes himself as a printmaker who paints. He joined Manchester AIR at The Factory on Willow in Manchester, New Hampshire, for the Fall 2022 session.
Background
Andrade Arévalo received his BA from Yale University in 2010, with a double major in Art (printmaking) and Ethnicity, Race and Migration. He works in lithography, etching and monotype, as well as painting, drawing and installation.
About the work
His practice is informed by his upbringing as a Mexican immigrant in Chicago and by the untold histories of his migrant family. Materially rich and resourceful, the work draws on plants, pressed flowers and single-use plastics, including produce packaging from his own family’s kitchen, stitched and layered into new forms. Just as organic matter grows, mutates and withers, so do his series of prints pulled from a single plate. He provides very little text with his pieces, preferring that the work speak for itself.
Selected highlights
BOLT Residency, Chicago Artists Coalition (2023–2024)
Work in the permanent collections of the National Museum of Mexican Art and the Willis Tower
Ida y vuelta (Round Trip), site-specific installation at Pueblo Unido Gallery, Chicago
Featured in Chicago Gallery News (2024)
