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About Alicia Crespo

A New England resident since 2000, Alicia Crespo was born in Havana, Cuba and grew up in Medellin, Colombia where she learned to excel in the fine and performing arts that are her artistic family’s legacy. 

 

A graduate of Academia Superior de Artes, Alicia is a professionally trained architectural drafter and interior designer who taught architectural illustration at her alma mater for 7 years and worked for more than two decades drafting and rendering architectural and urban art projects,using traditional analog as well as digital techniques. During this time she also hand and digitally illustrated selected children’s books including the original versions of several classic fairytales. 

 

A self-trained painter, she undertook numerous private and public commissions and entered selective exhibitions including the prestigious invitation to present a collection of 14 original paintings, entitled Madonnas, at the inauguration of the Library of the new headquarters of Medellin's Department of Public Works. The paintings were then exhibited at the Museum of Religious Art in Santa Fé de Antioquia. The collection was well received and both institutions retained a painting for permanent exhibit. Alicia's charitable art + healing work also began during this period when she produced, on-site, several large-scale murals for three of Medellin’s noted health and welfare establishments. 

 

Always an avocation, painting is now the centerpiece of Alicia’s creative endeavors. Working in the still life tradition in her light-filled Massachusetts studio, the subjects of her current canvases showcase her deep love of animals and nature, and of the light’s key role in how we experience the harmonious aliveness in the world around us.

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