About the Artist

Biography

Corina S. Alvarezdelugo was born in Valencia, Venezuela. At age 15 came to study a year at Choate Rosemary Hall in Wallingford, CT and felt in love with this area. In the summer of 2000, Corina moved back to CT with husband Juan-Jose and their three children. In May 2004 she received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Albertus Magnus College in New Haven. There she was trained in all degrees of studio arts and was granted the Bruce Sinkey Award for Excellence in Art.

She studied drawing and painting with the Venezuelan painter and sculptor, Luis Alvarez de Lugo, whom later on became her father in-law. He is well-known for his portraits and so Corina benefit from it and learned; from the charcoal and pencil drawing, to the pastels, to the acrylics, to the oils.

She has also taken courses in the Plein-Air genre with CT’s own Margaret B. Dean, and attended workshops by the Plein-Air Painters of America: Skip Whitcomb, Gay Faulkenberry, Joe Paquet, and Brian Stewart in 2004. In addition, Corina also takes classes on collage and mixed media with Sheila Kaczmarek to expand her creative possibilities.

Corina is also a sculptor. Her first attempt to sculpt was as a student at Choate, under the guidance of Reginald Bradford, her first sculpture teacher, who encouraged her to pursuit her artistic work. Later on she continued learning different sculpting techniques during her years at Albertus Magnus College. But inspiration for her current sculpture work comes from a project in her ceramics class with Jerome Nevins. Who always leads his students to search for beauty through the simple forms, reminding them at all times how “less is more.”

After graduation, Corina decided to continue sculpting using stoneware as her media. For this she joined the sculpture class guided by Lisa Wolkow at the Guilford Art Center, since 2005. She has taken classes on figurative sculpture with David Millen as well.

Corina has shown her artwork in Venezuela, Curacao (Netherlands Antilles), and in the USA; specifically all around Connecticut, in Pennsylvania, in Scottsdale-Arizona, in Massachusetts, at DUMBO in Brooklyn and in New York City. She is constantly participating in exhibitions and juried art shows. Corina has been awarded prizes for her accomplishes as she continues to grow as an artist.