Laura E. Alvarez

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.lauraalvarez.net

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

• 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. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)

References

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. "About". Laura Alvarez. October 26, 2014. Retrieved March 10, 2021.
4. Pérez, Laura Elisa (2007). Chicana art : the politics of spiritual and aesthetic altarities. Durham. ISBN 978-0-8223-3852-9. OCLC 74029278.
5. 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.
6. "The Double Agent Sirvienta: Blow Up the Hard Drive | LACMA Collections". collections.lacma.org. Retrieved March 9, 2021.
7. "Blow Up the Hard Drive | Smithsonian American Art Museum". americanart.si.edu. Retrieved March 10, 2021.
8. Pagel, David (September 6, 2002). "This Glittery Lawn Mower Cuts to the Tough Questions". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved March 10, 2021.
9. Hubler, Shawn (September 14, 2000). "Art Show Asks: Who Are We?". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved March 10, 2021.

External links

• Official website
• paradisoarts.com