Laura E. Alvarez born August 8, 1969, in
Huntington Beach, California
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is a visual
artist
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.
Background
In 1992, Alvarez earned a Bachelor of Arts from
University of California, Santa Cruz
The University of California, Santa Cruz (UC Santa Cruz or UCSC) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Santa Cruz, California, United States. It is one of the ten campuses in the University of C ...
with an emphasis in printmaking and a Master of Fine Arts with an emphasis in painting from
San Francisco Art Institute
San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) was a Private college, private art school, college of contemporary art in San Francisco, California. Founded in 1871, SFAI was one of the oldest art schools in the United States and the oldest west of the Mis ...
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
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, 1999 is in the permanent collections of the
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
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LACMA was founded in 1961 ...
and the
Smithsonian American Art Museum
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.
Selected exhibitions
* ''DAS: Clothes Stories'',
Pasadena City College
Pasadena City College (PCC) is a Public college, public community college in Pasadena, California. It was founded in 1924 as Pasadena Junior College.
History
Pasadena City College was founded in 1924 as Pasadena Junior College. It originally o ...
,
Pasadena
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, California 2017
* ''Borderless Dreams'',
Oceanside Museum of Art
Oceanside Museum of Art is a fine arts museum in Oceanside, California. It began holding exhibits in 1995, with a dedicated facility opening on October 6, 1997. The museum is housed in two buildings designed by Irving Gill and Frederick Fisher, m ...
,
Oceanside, California
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2005
* ''Chicano Art for our Millennium'',
Mesa Southwest Museum,
Tempe, Arizona
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2004
* ''Mixed Feelings,'' (featuring a commissioned film)
USC Fisher Gallery,
Los Angeles, California
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2002
* ''Revelatory Landscapes'', in collaboration with ADOBE L.A.,
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
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,
San Francisco, California
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2001
* ''Revealing and Concealing: Portraits and Identity'',
Skirball Cultural Center
The Skirball Cultural Center, founded in 1996, is a Jewish educational institution in Los Angeles, California. The center, named after philanthropist couple Jack H. Skirball and Audrey Skirball-Kenis, has a museum with regularly changing exhi ...
,
Los Angeles, California
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2000
* ''Annual Print Exhibition'', (Atelier de Mujeres),
Self Help Graphics & Art
Self Help Graphics & Art, Inc. is a community arts center in East Los Angeles, California, United States. Established in 1970, Self Help Graphics served as a critical locus of activity during the Chicano art movement and is a center for Chicano ...
,
Los Angeles, California
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1999
Further reading
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References
External links
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paradisoarts.com
Chicano art
People from Huntington Beach, California
1969 births
University of California, Santa Cruz alumni
San Francisco Art Institute alumni
Living people
Artists from California
21st-century American women artists
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