Alvarez’ s painting style, like those of many other Cuban artists of that era, was highly influenced by the development of popular culture in Cuba during the feverish Special Period. His paintings are shown in museums around the world, including the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de La Habana in Havana, Museo Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo in Seville, Spain, Arizona State University Art Museum in Tempe, Arizona, Museum of Art in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and Museo de la Universidad de Alicante in Alicante, Spain. He has had more than eight personal exhibitions in Cuba and Spain and has been in more than fourty group exhibitions in Germany, Canada, Spain, England and the United States.
Among his more notable personal exhibitions were Exposición de Paisajes( 1985) at the Galería de Arte Universal, Trinidad, Sancti Spíritus, Cuba. His group exhibitions have included Arte Cubano en Boston( 1988), Massachusetts College of Art, Boston; Misa por una Mueca( 1993), Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales, Havana; Bienal de Pintura del Caribe y Centro América( 1994), Museo de Arte Moderno, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Álvarez died on February 12, 2004, just five days after the beginning of a major solo exhibition of his work, Landscape in the Fireplace, at the Arizona State University Art Museum.
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