Uploaded January 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago

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Exploring identity through sight and sound 🖼️🎶

Spanish artist Ana de Alvear’s work shifts perceptions and perspectives in a way that’s both subtle and transformative. A “search for identity” pervades her multifaceted projects, explored through this engaging online performance by Art of Elan musicians featuring the haunting “Spectra” for violin, viola, and cello by Icelandic composer Anna Thorvaldsdottir.

This is part of Art of Elan’s 14th season concert series called Transformations. For the full schedule of concerts: sdmart.org/art-of-elan

"Spectra" by Anna Thorvaldsdottir
Kate Hatmaker - violin
Travis Maril - viola
Andrew Hayhurst - cello
Daniel Rumley - audio recording

Filmed on location at The San Diego Museum of Art

Featured artwork: Ana de Alvear. "In the Forced Vortex (Black), 2015-2016. Colored pencil on paper. Image courtesy of the artist.


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