Jhina Alvarado

Jhina Alvarado is from California and has lived in San Francisco since 1994. She is Mexican and Korean. She earned both a Master’s degree in Math Education and a Bachelor’s degree in Liberal Studies. Both were obtained from the San Francisco State University. Alvarado is a self-taught artist. She expresses herself through painting.



Jhina Alvarado works with older photographs; she recreates them in her paintings in her series “Forgotten Memories”. The images are done with oil pants on wood panels including a considerable amount of white space. The images are often cropped out of their environment which added with the white space emphasizes the focus on the individual memory. Alvarado also blocks the eyes out so that the viewer can better put themselves into the image and memory.
She began this series because she hated seeing so many old photographs sold in markets and thrift stores or even thrown away. It made her feel as if people’s memories no longer mattered to them.
I feel that our goal is very similar. We both feel this attachment to those older photographs that once held so much importance to someone somewhere.









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