Eva Montealegre

"...from the cell to the star, light waves and brain waves, archetypes of the individual psyche and collective unconscious, along with natural and culturally-activated principles of color, she also draws parallels between the sinewy body and the undulating oceans, tracing energy fields and fractal musicality as one among many ways to understand what life is." —SND

Biography


2024 Showing at Matter Studio Gallery, 5080 Pico Blvd at the cross street of Redondo, November 3, 2024 through December 1st, with the Artist Walkthru at the closing reception on December 1, 4-6.

Montealegre’s painting career emerged under the tutelage of abstract painter, Robert Kingston, at Pierce College where she graduated with honors in Graphic Arts.

Montealegre’s gallery debut was at Long Beach Arts, 2003, where her painting Lady Starskull Ponders the Cosmos was awarded special recognition. Since, her work has exhibited widely at many California galleries including Adagio Gallery, Beyond the Lines at Bergamot Station, Blue Bird Art House, Modern Art Gallery, Orlando Gallery, TAG Gallery and Verve Gallery among others throughout the United States.

Montealegre has won prizes for her paintings and her work is featured in several publications including but not limited to, 2010 Department of Cultural Affairs Calendar, 2012 Art Takes Time Square, and 2012 Signature Books, Women’s Rights: An Artist’s Perspective, UniteWomen.Org and numerous others. Museum presentations of Deep Vein 3 include MOLAA, Museum of Latin American Artists, and the Picture Foundation International Exhibition: I Have a Right and includes their publication in 2011.

She is a recipient of the Puffin Foundation Grant in 2014 for artwork, Birth of the Universe, presented at the USC Gallery of Genetic Art to doctors, professors, and students.

In 2015 she was included in the prestigious Latina Art Initiative founded by Linda Vallejo, vetted as one of the best Latin Artists in the US. Eva Montealegre was named “Best Artist” by ARTAVITA Magazine 2014 in an international contest. In 2015, Birth of the Universe, and the video of the performance was featured in First Post to announce the Nobel Prize Award to Peter Higgs.

In 2018 she was featured at bG Gallery in Santa Monica, CA and she was also mentioned in Artslant as an “artist to watch.”

In 2022 her work was presented in online in several exhibitions at the LA Art Association's Gallery 825 and numerous other online galleries and in brick and mortar galleries across the LA landscape including ART2art on Wilshire Boulevard, The Betsey Leuke Art Center in Glendale and The Makery in downtown Los Angeles on Los Angeles Street.

2023 has started off with her work, We Are Stardust 2, being featured in the Art of Planetary Science exhibition at the Kuiper Space Science Bldg., Tucson, Arizona.