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== Further Reading ==
== Further Reading ==


* Mata I. (2014) Chapter 10 "Pictures of Resistance: Recasting Labor and Immigration in the Global City." In: Hernández E.D., Gibson E.R.. (eds) ''The Un/Making of Latina/o Citizenship. Literatures of the Americas''. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. <nowiki>https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137431080_11</nowiki> ISBN978-1-137-43107-3
* Mata I. (2014) Chapter 10 "Pictures of Resistance: Recasting Labor and Immigration in the Global City." In: Hernández E.D., Gibson E.R.. (eds) ''The Un/Making of Latina/o Citizenship. Literatures of the Americas''. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. {{doi|10.1057/9781137431080_11}}, {{ISBN|978-1-137-43107-3}}


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== External links ==

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Laura E. Alvarez
File:Portrait of Laura E. Alvarez.jpg
BornAugust 8, 1969
Huntington Beach, California
EducationBA, University of California Santa Cruz 1992; MFA, San Francisco Art Institute, 1996
OccupationArtist
OrganizationParadiso Arts
Notable workDouble Agent Sirvienta (D.A.S.)
MovementChicanx Art
Websitehttp://www.lauraalvarez.net

Laura E. Alvarez (1969) is a visual artist.

Biography

Laura E. Alvarez was born August 8, 1969 in Huntington Beach, California.

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

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 1-4773-0984-5. OCLC 926743263.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  3. ^ "About". Laura Alvarez. 2014-10-26. Retrieved 2021-03-10.
  4. ^ 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)
  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.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  6. ^ "The Double Agent Sirvienta: Blow Up the Hard Drive | LACMA Collections". collections.lacma.org. Retrieved 2021-03-09.
  7. ^ "Blow Up the Hard Drive | Smithsonian American Art Museum". americanart.si.edu. Retrieved 2021-03-10.
  8. ^ Pagel, David (2002-09-06). "This Glittery Lawn Mower Cuts to the Tough Questions". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2021-03-10.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  9. ^ Hubler, Shawn (2000-09-14). "Art Show Asks: Who Are We?". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2021-03-10.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

Further Reading

  • Mata I. (2014) Chapter 10 "Pictures of Resistance: Recasting Labor and Immigration in the Global City." In: Hernández E.D., Gibson E.R.. (eds) The Un/Making of Latina/o Citizenship. Literatures of the Americas. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. doi:10.1057/9781137431080_11, ISBN 978-1-137-43107-3

External links