Sandías Painting

Alicia Amador Hernández was born in Mexico City, on December 9, 1964. Her works are part of collections in San Diego, New York, London, San Salvador, Bilbao and Paris. As part of her professional development, she has participated in some editorial projects like the creation in 1986 of the cultural section of the bimonthly magazine Secofi produced by the Secretary of Commerce and Industrial Development. And in 1990 she was editor of the supplement "El coleccionista" of Casas&Gente magazine. Her work refers, on the one hand, to genre painting—portraits and still lifes— as well as to the discipline of guild workshops, as a starting point whose intention is a far cry from flat conservatism and aspires to to create through painting and drawing symbolic themes that emerge, advance and culminate in a critique and questioning of the conventional social, economic, family, and traditional cultural structures. Amador's body of work, using traditional techniques such as tempera, oil and engraving, constantly rethinks her own reality to translate it into connections that go from the visceral to the convulsed and from the immediate to the permanent. The appearances, the spontaneous and the heartbreaking envision the deformations, the extreme,ß and the beauty in her compositions.