“I love that we’re talking more about reality than we are about art because it’s so much more important to get inside the artist than about the physical of the art,” painter and illustrator Alvaro says to So Booking Cool during the second part (check out part one ) of our interview. “You’ve dug in and you let the art surface around, but you went inside. And I wish more people would do that with people that are very emotional and passionate.”
In part two of our conversation, Alvaro, candid and engaging as ever, opens up about being a “little” psychic. He also recalls his favorite books, including his 30-book Marilyn Monroe collection, the books he’s illustrated (Constance Gibson’s She Can Go Where Pretty Girls Go; Iman and Naomi Campbell) the time he discovered model and actress Joy Bryant, working with Mariah Carey, his thoughts on how the modeling world is evolving, more on his solo art exhibit, which will be open at Casa House 625 West 51st Street for a month, and more.
As far as whether Alvaro plans to pen a memoir? The veteran artist says he will write a picture book about art instead of his life. “No one’s gonna wanna know about me. Not yet.”