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Artist: Saul Alvarez ( United States ) -
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Main Category: Photography
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Genres: Performance Art, Contemporary American Art
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Biography: Saul Alvarez graduated with an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts, (Valencia CA, 2007) after receiving a BA from the University of California Irvine, (Irvine CA, 2003).
Since 2007, Saul Alvarez is an Adjunct Faculty-History of Photography at Woodbury University (Burbank, CA) and an assistant wood & metal shop technician at Otis College of Art & Design, (Los Angeles, CA).
Alvarez's past experiences led him to be a head fabricator, carpenter, drafter metal shop technician, after school program coordinator, sculpture studio technician and production assistant at many local institutions, organizations and venues - such as Redcat Gallery (Los Angeles, CA), Dig-it Designs (Venice, CA), California Institute of the Art (Valencia, CA), North Valley Caring Services (North Hills, CA), John L Blom Custom Photography (Corona Del Mar, CA), and UC Irvine Sculpture Studio, (Irvine, CA).
Alvarez's practice consists of locating junctures in space, time and history were slippage occurs between what is real and what is theoretical. He rearrange various narratives that extend from the mundane to the fantastic in order to realign or shift a current perspective. Saul Alvarez's work relies heavily on source imagery taken from numerous contexts. His sculptures, photographs and drawings take on a cinematic quality because the artist employs the visual vocabulary of film and popular culture. Through this process he interchanges notions of history with mythology, the empirical present with the simulacra of the media, and the discourse of the future with that of science fiction. Each binary relationship operates as a mirror onto each other and onto the world it self. The meta narrative is no more, shattered, and each fragment and shard is capable of cutting its own line. Where these new lines, vectors, intersect is were Saul's work manifests. Ultimately the artist's practice is a project of understanding and interpretation, the excavation of meaning and truth from the rubble of history.
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Exhibition History: Solo Exhibitions
2006
Chop your arm off the Inoculation is your Enemy’s Medicine, Mint Gallery Valencia, CA
Group Exhibitions
2008
Jose Biennial 01SJ Global Festival of Art on the Edge.
Barber Shop Quartet Series, space 47, San Joes CA
2007
Latitude. LA ArtCore, Los Angeles CA
The Other Project, with the Attempters. Curated by Evelyn Serrano. Valencia, CA.
Top View Ranchu, D300 Gallery, Valencia, CA
The Juice Is Loose, Curated by Rosha Yaghmai, 507 Rose, Venice, CA
The Attempters (PBEA), The Lime Gallery, Valencia, CA
Kinky Sex (Makes the World Go ‘Round) Lizabeth Oliveria Gallery Los Angeles, CA
2006
Lost Streams: The first Frontier was the Water’s Edge, Estacion Tijuana, Tijuana Mexico
November, Curated by Jeffrey Uslip, Harris Lieberman Gallery, New York, NY
Calarts Mid-residency Show, Calarts Valencia CA
It Was the Blurst of Times, Commerce Street Artist Warehouse, Houston, Texas
2005
Not that you Lied to Me, But that I No Longer Believe Has Shaken Me, Mint Gallery Valencia, CA
The Door Show, Annex Building Los Angeles, CA
Boundless, The Sternersen Museum, Oslo Norway
2004
Yank, Andrea Bowers & Sam Durant’s Studio, Los Angeles, CA
2003
Big Red, Studio Art Building, Irvine, CA
D, University Art Gallery, Irvine, CA
Select, University Art Gallery, Irvine, CA
2002
Juste Mon Genie, University Art Gallery UC Irvine, CA
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Bibliography: 2007
Latitude Exhibition catalog LAartcore 2007
Evening Side Drive, 29025 Eveningside Dr Valverde Publications
2006
Serrano, Evelyn. “Lost Streams: The First Fontier Was The Water's Edge“ Tijuana, Mexico
2005
I've Done This Before, Saul Alvarez, Daniel Martinez, Aaron Sandnes, and Kara Tanaka. Los Angeles: Cakemountain, 2005.
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