Renata Cassiano Alvarez

Mexican-Italian artist Renata Cassiano Alvarez earned her MFA at the University of Mexico. She has been the longtime assistant of two renowned international artists: Nina Hole of Denmark and Gustavo Perez from Mexico. Currently she is an Artist in Residence and teaching at the University of Arkansas. Cassiano Alvarez works predominantly in the medium of clay, in a search for developing an intimate collaborative relationship with material and material language. Influenced by archeology and history, she is interested in the power of the object as survival - objects with a sense of permanence and timelessness, and language as transformation; specially how adopting a different language can affect the physicality of the human body, and how this translates into material. Renata’s work has been exhibited internationally and can be found in public and private collections in Mexico, Estonia, Italy, Taiwan, Germany, Denmark, Latvia, China, United States and Slovenia. She works between her studio in Veracruz, Mexico and Springdale, Arkansas.

Río Revuelto, 2022

Ceramic and gold

10 x 6.5 x 6.5”

Ojos de Volcán, 2022

Ceramic, gold and obsidian

11 x 8 x 8"

Ceramic and gold

Las Culebras, 2022

Ceramic and gold

15.5 x 3 x 3.5”