Laura E. Alvarez

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