Laura E. Alvarez Explained

Laura E. Alvarez
Birth Date:	August 8, 1969
Birth Place:	Huntington Beach, California
Education:	BA, University of California Santa Cruz 1992;MFA, San Francisco Art Institute, 1996
Occupation:	Artist
Organization:	Paradiso Arts
Notable Works:	Double Agent Sirvienta (D.A.S.)
Movement:	Chicano Art

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.^[1]

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.^[2] This series features a spy posing as a domestic worker.^[3] This project began in 1995.^[4]
• 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.^[5]
• The Double Agent Sirvienta: Blow Up the Hard Drive, Serigraph, 1999 is in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art^[6] and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.^[7]

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^[8]
• 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^[9]
• Annual Print Exhibition, (Atelier de Mujeres), Self Help Graphics & Art, Los Angeles, California 1999

Further reading

• Book: Mata I. . 2014 . Pictures of Resistance: Recasting Labor and Immigration in the Global City . Hernández E.D. . Gibson E.R. . The Un/Making of Latina/o Citizenship. Literatures of the Americas . Palgrave Macmillan . New York . 10.1057/9781137431080_11 . 978-1-137-43107-3.

External links

• • paradisoarts.com

Notes and References

1. Book: Keller, Gary D.. Chicano art for our millennium : collected works from the Arizona State University community. 2004. Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingüe. Mary Erickson, Pat Villeneuve, Melanie Magisos, Craig Smith, Mesa Southwest Museum. 1-931010-25-0. Tempe, Ariz.. 54046196.
2. Book: Mata, Irene . Domestic disturbances : re-imagining narratives of gender, labor, and immigration . 2015 . 978-1-4773-0984-1 . First paperback . Austin . 926743263.
3. Web site: 2014-10-26 . About . 2021-03-10 . Laura Alvarez . en.
4. Book: Pérez, Laura Elisa . Chicana art : the politics of spiritual and aesthetic altarities . 2007 . 978-0-8223-3852-9 . Durham . 74029278.
5. Book: La vida latina en L.A. urban Latino cultures . 1999 . SAGE Publications . Gustavo Leclerc, Raúl. Villa, M. J. Dear, University of Southern California. Southern California Studies Center . 0-7619-1619-9 . Thousand Oaks, Calif. . 40467433.
6. Web site: The Double Agent Sirvienta: Blow Up the Hard Drive LACMA Collections . 2021-03-09 . collections.lacma.org.
7. Web site: Blow Up the Hard Drive Smithsonian American Art Museum . 2021-03-10 . americanart.si.edu . en-US.
8. Web site: Pagel. David . 2002-09-06. This Glittery Lawn Mower Cuts to the Tough Questions. 2021-03-10. Los Angeles Times. en-US.
9. Web site: Hubler. Shawn . 2000-09-14. Art Show Asks: Who Are We?. 2021-03-10. Los Angeles Times. en-US.