Tamara Alves (b. 1983) is a Portuguese artist, based in Lisbon who’s inspired by urban life. Making use of supports with multifaceted characteristics – from painting to illustration, from tattoos to Street art.
The work of Tamara Alves represents an erotic view of a contemporary body with the effects of its own limits expanded. Instead of a rational thinking there’s a rough passion, a body-without-organs, a becoming animal, the experienced sensations, "starving histerical naked" (Allen Ginsberg).
Since 2000 that she has been a part of several projects, group and solo exhibitions, street art interventions and she's one of the most notorious female street artists in Portugal.
Tamara Aleixo Alves is a Portuguese artist, based in Lisbon.
Inspired by urban life. Making use of supports with multifaceted characteristics – from painting to illustration, from installation to urban art, Tamara is fascinated by “contextual” art, which is inserted in the world, ignoring conventional places such as museums or galleries, in order to present her works of art in the street or in public spaces.
Since 2000 thats she has been part of several projects and group exhibitions such as the art showcase “Swatch MTV Playground 2009”, “Pampero Public Art 2010”, “Walk&Talk 2012”, etc.
2008, Master at Contemporary Artistic Practices from FBAUP
2006, Degree in Plastic Arts from ESAD ( Escola Superior de Arte e Design) Caldas da Rainha
2009, Advanced Multimedia Production, Alquimia da Cor, Porto
2007, Levels 1 and 2 of the Visual Special Effects Workshop by Ron Freeman, C.P.O..
2007/2008, Screenprint Workshop from Árvore Cooperativa de Actividades Artísticas, C.R.L., Porto
Solo Exhibitions
2012, “My Body Is A Zombie For You”, Ó! Galeria, Porto
2012, “Cool Kids Cant Die”, Monsters Familly, Porto
2011, “I Can Figure You Out In A Short Glance II – O princípio dos príncipes e das princesas sem princípio”, Upgrade Productions, Porto
2010 “I Can Figure You Out In A Short Glance”, Galeria Show Me design & art, Braga
2010, “Starving Hysterical Naked” Plano B, Porto
2008, “The Only Cure For Love Is…” Espaço CEPiA, Évora
2008, “Space is the Place”, Espaço Mutantes, Porto
2008, “Art Show”, Espaço Maria Vai Com as Outras, Porto
2008, “Somos Feitos Da Mesma Matéria Que Os Nossos Sonhos”, Urban Gallery, Porto
2007, “Saturart”, Galeria 6 por 3, Porto
Loures Arte Pública 2017
About the carnations revolution in Portugal that happened on the 25th of April 1974.
About the carnations revolution in Portugal that happened on the 25th of April 1974.
TIGRESS INTERLACED GEOMETRY
Collaboration with the amazing Add Fuel for Festa 2016 in Ovar
TIGRESS INTERLACED GEOMETRY
Collaboration with the amazing Add Fuel for Festa 2016 in Ovar
Putrica
Collaboration with the amazing Draw for Projecto Putrica included in Sebastianas 2016 in Freamunde.
Amazing party!!
Thank you for the invitation and the challenge.
Amazing party!!
Thank you for the invitation and the challenge.
Fire Walk With Me
Muro 2016 is a Lisbon Street Art Festival in Bairro Padre Cruz
Curated by Gau
Curated by Gau
Wild Orphan
WOOL ON RESIDENCE
This mural was named after an Allen Ginsberg poem called Wild Orphan.
After discovering the city of Covilhã, this piece transformed itself into an ode and at the same time an awareness to the slow death of its heritage, the bobbin lace work as one of them.
"Don't let it became a myth." This piece is both it's death and its reborn at the same time: "to create out of his own imagination the beauty of his wild forebears - a mythology he cannot inherit."
This mural was named after an Allen Ginsberg poem called Wild Orphan.
After discovering the city of Covilhã, this piece transformed itself into an ode and at the same time an awareness to the slow death of its heritage, the bobbin lace work as one of them.
"Don't let it became a myth." This piece is both it's death and its reborn at the same time: "to create out of his own imagination the beauty of his wild forebears - a mythology he cannot inherit."
Living Nature - Part III
True Love
Heart/ctopus
Gau - Lisbon Urban Art Gallery
Pampero Public Art
Girls versus Boys
Colab with Ozearv+Smile+SuperVan
Colab with Ozearv+Smile+SuperVan
Pampero Public Art
Girls versus Boys
Colab with Ozearv+Smile+SuperVan
Colab with Ozearv+Smile+SuperVan
Pampero Public Art
Girls versus Boys
Colab with Ozearv+Smile+SuperVan
Colab with Ozearv+Smile+SuperVan
Pampero Public Art
Girls versus Boys
Colab with Ozearv+Smile+SuperVan
Colab with Ozearv+Smile+SuperVan
Lick My Wounds
Every year Dedicated Store in Porto invites an artist to paint their wall. Thank you Rafi!
LX Factory Open Day
LX Factory Open Day
LX Factory Open Day
LX Factory Open Day
LX Factory Open Day
20th of July @ Fábrica Braço de Prata
20th of July @ Fábrica Braço de Prata
20th of July @ Fábrica Braço de Prata
Walk & Talk Azores print by ColorBlind
Topo copy is going to the Walk & Talk Azores Public Art Festival and is making a series of prints by participating festival-artists, and more!
http://walktalkazores.org/
http://walktalkazores.org/
A ilustração e o espaço público, uma Estalk com Tâmara Alves
"De momento vivo dos desenhos que sempre fiz em quase todos os formatos, papel, parede, fotografia, digital e até na pele! " diz Tamara Alves a próxima convidada da ESTAL, para a Estalk de dia 20 de Junho, inserida no ciclo de desenho e ilustração.Nasceu em Portimão, licenciou-se em Artes Plásticas na Escola Superior de Artes e Design, foi nas Caldas da Rainha, na Faculdade de Belas Artes do Porto que adquiriu o grau de mestre e hoje, vive em Lisboa.
É na capital que Tamara Alves se inspira na vivência urbana, na utilização de uma linguagem plástica, na qual utiliza suportes com características multifacetadas – da pintura, à ilustração, da instalação à arte urbana.
A jovem artista interessa-se por uma arte "contextual", que se insere no mundo, abandonando lugares comuns tendo como predilecção apresentar as suas obras na rua ou em espaços públicos.
