| Laura E. Alvarez | |
|---|---|
| Born | August 8, 1969 Huntington Beach, California |
| Education | BA, University of California Santa Cruz 1992; MFA, San Francisco Art Institute, 1996 |
| Occupation | Artist |
| Organization | Paradiso Arts |
| Notable work | Double Agent Sirvienta (D.A.S.) |
| Movement | Chicano Art |
| Website | www |
Laura E. Alvarez born August 8, 1969, in Huntington Beach, California is a visual artist.
Background
In 1992, Alvarez earned a Bachelor of Arts from University of California, Santa Cruz with an emphasis in printmaking and a Master of Fine Arts with an emphasis in painting from San Francisco Art Institute in 1996.
Art
- Alvarez's Double Agent Sirvienta (D.A.S) series is an on-going project consisting of prints, paintings, music, short films and a rock opera. This series features a spy posing as a domestic worker. This project began in 1995.
- The Double Agent Sirvienta Rock Opera, 1996-1998 is a multimedia film and music project which illustrates the story of a young female soap opera actress relegated to portraying maids who becomes a spy.
- The Double Agent Sirvienta: Blow Up the Hard Drive, Serigraph, 1999 is in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Selected exhibitions
- DAS: Clothes Stories, Pasadena City College, Pasadena, California 2017
- Borderless Dreams, Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, California 2005
- Chicano Art for our Millennium, Mesa Southwest Museum, Tempe, Arizona 2004
- Mixed Feelings, (featuring a commissioned film) USC Fisher Gallery, Los Angeles, California 2002
- Revelatory Landscapes, in collaboration with ADOBE L.A., San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California 2001
- Revealing and Concealing: Portraits and Identity, Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles, California 2000
- Annual Print Exhibition, (Atelier de Mujeres), Self Help Graphics & Art, Los Angeles, California 1999
Further reading
- Mata I. (2014). Hernández E.D.; Gibson E.R. (eds.). Pictures of Resistance: Recasting Labor and Immigration in the Global City. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. doi:10.1057/9781137431080_11. ISBN 978-1-137-43107-3.
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References
- Keller, Gary D. (2004). Chicano art for our millennium : collected works from the Arizona State University community. Mary Erickson, Pat Villeneuve, Melanie Magisos, Craig Smith, Mesa Southwest Museum. Tempe, Ariz.: Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingüe. ISBN 1-931010-25-0. OCLC 54046196.
- Mata, Irene (2015). Domestic disturbances : re-imagining narratives of gender, labor, and immigration (First paperback ed.). Austin. ISBN 978-1-4773-0984-1. OCLC 926743263.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - "About". Laura Alvarez. October 26, 2014. Retrieved March 10, 2021.
- Pérez, Laura Elisa (2007). Chicana art : the politics of spiritual and aesthetic altarities. Durham. ISBN 978-0-8223-3852-9. OCLC 74029278.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - La vida latina en L.A. urban Latino cultures. Gustavo Leclerc, Raúl. Villa, M. J. Dear, University of Southern California. Southern California Studies Center. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: SAGE Publications. 1999. ISBN 0-7619-1619-9. OCLC 40467433.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link) - "The Double Agent Sirvienta: Blow Up the Hard Drive | LACMA Collections". collections.lacma.org. Retrieved March 9, 2021.
- "Blow Up the Hard Drive | Smithsonian American Art Museum". americanart.si.edu. Retrieved March 10, 2021.
- Pagel, David (September 6, 2002). "This Glittery Lawn Mower Cuts to the Tough Questions". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved March 10, 2021.
- Hubler, Shawn (September 14, 2000). "Art Show Asks: Who Are We?". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved March 10, 2021.
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