Michael Alvarez

Region: Pacific Coast

Website: http://www.michaelalvarezart.com

City / State: Los Angeles, CA

Aranda is at the intersection of Mexican and American. Not Hispanic or Latino, yet feels the effects of the Spanish conquest still, over five hundred years later. A search for self-identity informs his process as it relates to pre-Columbian Mexico as well as the social, political, and economic struggles of this late capitalistic American nightmare.