Fernando Luis Alvarez Gallery

Fernando Luis Alvarez Gallery From the doors in, we build artists' careers. From the doors out, we build community. With over 5,000 sq.

The Fernando Luis Alvarez Gallery recently earned a citation from the State of Connecticut as one of the nation’s most innovative contemporary art galleries. feet of space, the gallery produces upwards of ten shows each year, from a stable of international, career artists. Established in 2009 by Fernando Luis Alvarez, the gallery is committed to building careers of emerging and established contemp

orary artists from the doors in, and building community from the doors out. Current artists exhibiting in the gallery include Helen Frankenthaler, Robert Longo, Louise Fishman, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella, Robert Motherwell, Jim Dine, Sean Scully, John J. Bedoya, Rex Prescott Walden, Jena Thomas, Kirsten Reynolds, William Nelson and Damla T. Faro who was recently featured in Sotheby’s Turkish, Arab, and Iranian contemporary art auction. For a full list of artists, please go to alvarezgallery.com

The gallery also features a competitive art leasing program that differentiates from its relationship with art collectors. With art leasing, corporations, small businesses and private clients can lease or rent art for a period of time at a fraction of the cost of the artwork. Art leasing programs and curating services are available to match a variety of interior design and corporate client needs. The benefits of art leasing can range from freeing up capital, to encouraging employee creativity, to providing tax incentives to larger corporations. The gallery's art leasing program also features the option for private events that include cultural diversity programs, private art shows, and performance art.

06/19/2026

Is THE GREAT ILLUMINATION just a large art project?

This project brings together Kari Kola's three mediums — sky, earth, and light — to create something rooted in peace, hope, and inspiration.

Light is powerful because it shows a path forward.

Support the Kickstarter, share it, and help bring this vision to life: http://kck.st/4fy2UcM

06/15/2026

What is THE GREAT ILLUMINATION?

Fernando Alvarez shares the vision behind a project that brings together light, landscape, history, and collective belief.

Created by Kari Kola, THE GREAT ILLUMINATION envisions 250 kilometers of light through the Grand Canyon in celebration of America’s 250th.

Support and share the Kickstarter campaign: http://kck.st/4fy2UcM

06/15/2026

By the World's Leading Scale Light Artist. Phase 1: Critical stage to responsibly bringing this historic project to life.

06/12/2026

"Our work has always gone beyond art."
– Fernando Alvarez

The GREAT ILLUMINATION continues Alvarez Gallery's mission of supporting projects that create impact beyond the gallery space.

What began with Kari Kola's vision has become an ambitious call for unity through light: a 250-kilometer light installation in the Grand Canyon For America's 250th anniversary.

This is your moment to be part of something historic.

Help us bring this light to life.

Thank You. We’re 20% funded in the first 24 hours. Now we need your help to keep the momentum going - here's your chance...
06/11/2026

Thank You.

We’re 20% funded in the first 24 hours. Now we need your help to keep the momentum going - here's your chance to be part of a legacy project and be part of an extraordinary experience by getting:

1. One of 100 limited and numbered, hand-signed survey photograph of the Grand Canyon from Kari Kola, and
2. An opportunity to participate in a helicopter ride-along with the artist.

Find these opportunities at the Kickstarter and share it today: http://kck.st/4fy2UcM

06/10/2026

THE GREAT ILLUMINATION is now live on Kickstarter.

Conceived by Finnish light artist Kari Kola, this monumental vision seeks to light the Grand Canyon in celebration of America’s 250th.

250 kilometers of light.
One kilometer for every year.

If this vision resonates with you, this is the moment to act.

Support the campaign on Kickstarter and share it: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thegreatillumination/the-great-illumination

05/19/2026

Lighting the Sound by Kari Kola
The largest light installation on Earth to date.

Created in Albany, Western Australia, the project has been recognized as the largest light installation on Earth to date.

Spanning coastline, sky, and landscape, the artist transformed place into experience — not simply through light, but through scale, memory, and cultural meaning.

Kari’s work does not just illuminate.
It reveals what a landscape already carries.

Now, a new vision is beginning to take shape.

More soon.

Video courtesy of the artist.

“Light is a really powerful tool.”— Kari KolaFor over two decades, Kari Kola has worked with light across historic sites...
05/12/2026

“Light is a really powerful tool.”
— Kari Kola

For over two decades, Kari Kola has worked with light across historic sites, natural environments, and large-scale public experiences, transforming landscapes into moments of stillness, reflection, and awe.

Now, a new monumental act of light is beginning to take shape.

Before it can be seen, it has to be believed in.

More soon.
Follow the light.

©️Photo courtesy of the artist.

Great experience at just the bar at El Cielo Restaurant at the Virgin Hotel, NYC—truly a treat.
05/01/2026

Great experience at just the bar at El Cielo Restaurant at the Virgin Hotel, NYC—truly a treat.

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