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about us • cardonahinegallery.com
ALVARO CARDONA-HINE •
Born in San Jose, Costa Rica, Cardona-Hine has lived in the United States since 1939. He and McCauley currently reside in the beautiful Sangre de Cristo mountains of northern New Mexico, where they have located their studios and the Cardona-Hine Gallery as well.
Cardona-Hine is a self-taught artist practicing three disciplines: painting, writing and musical composition. His artistic leanings emerged by his late teens in a passionate love for music and poetry, both of which he has written all of his life. He studied briefly at Los Angeles City College, but realized early on that his nature could not be contained within schools and schooling. Of necessity, he became his own teacher, inspired by all of the great artists, Eastern as well as Western.
Cardona-Hine’s work is currently represented in galleries in Florida, Massachusetts and Texas, as well as in New Mexico. In 1986, he had a major one-man show entitled The Mythic Paintings, at the MacAllen International Museum in MacAllen, Texas. His work is in public and private collections worldwide.
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McCauley began painting and drawing in her teens and studied drawing for 2 years at UCLA, but pursued writing for the next 30 years, principally poetry, and has numerous publications in poetry, fiction, non-fiction and one Emmy Award-winning educational television series. In 1991, she returned to drawing from the figure and then to painting, a lifetime passion previously reserved to others, and now pursues painting almost exclusively.
Her work is influenced primarily by the architecture and landscape of northern New Mexico and of her native New England. With a style balanced on a taut sense of realistic expressionism, her vision rests on the hidden, a human presence that is felt rather than seen. Inspired by Vermeer, Diebenkorn, and Hopper, among others, her work has a concentrated essence and feeling for place as opposed to an exactness of representation. In the brief time since she has returned to painting, her work is in collections all over the United States as well as abroad.
Black and white photos by Joyce Walker Hart
