Blog 4: Laura Alvarez

Transformation in the Garden, 2002

This week’s blog post focuses on the multi-talented artist and music recording artist, Laura Alvarez. This week I had the pleasure to be in the presence of someone who is very talented and has the ability to succeed at everything she puts her hand on. Alvarez’s artwork is influenced heavily by her family, particularly her parents. In the beginning of her presentation, she stated that she believes that art should be personal. As I looked at a lot of her works, I did notice that personal connection with her family in her art. As people, we love our parents more than anything else in this world, but we tend to love our mothers a little bit more than our fathers. I think this is the reason Alvarez references her mother a little bit more in her art with the multiple appearances of Double Agent Servienta (D.A.S). Servienta is an undercover agent posing as a maid. Her mom occupation as a house made inspired this concept, and her dads work as army veteran inspired the spy work as well as her fascination with spy’s.

In this image I have selected from Alvarez’s works, you immediately notice the undercover maid pretending to do some work in a garden. Servienta is on her hands and knees in the dirt pretending to be working, but at the same time she is receiving instructions from headquarters about her mission from her headset.