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A photograph of a sculpture of a small child with pale textured skin, dark eyes, curly dark hair, and delicately carved lips. The child stands on two feet with its hands at its sides. Text, Memory of a photograph, 2013, Ceramic, 29 by 12 inches.
A photo of a sculpture of a small dark gray colored child seated with its legs outstretched. The child is surrounded by carved flowers and cacti with papery blooms and twisting stems. All of the sculptures are situated on a wood floor in a corner. Text, Untitled, 2018, glazed ceramic.
A painting of a black unicorn with a long horn and curled tail in a round white fence on a field of flowers. Text, The black Unicorn, 2020, watercolor on paper, 82 by 52 inches. Next to it is an image of a tapestry of a white unicorn in a round fence surrounded by flowers. Text, The unicorn in captivity, 1495 to 1505, woven tapestry, South Netherlands, wool, silk, silver and gilt. At the cloisters, 12 feet tall.
A painting of a young boy in red athletic shorts holding up two fists. He is surrounded by delicate blossoms arching up from glass below his feet. Near the grass is a skull. Text, Enredado, 2020, graphite and watercolor, 61 and 1/2 by 51 and 1/2 inches.
A painting of a nude girl standing on a branch. Behind her below the elbow is covered in thinner branches, green leaves and pink blossoms. Her upper torso is framed by a gray sky. Text, Silveria 2020, watercolor and gesso on paper, 52 and 1/2 by 45 inches.
A painted sculpture of a young girl seen from the front who squats and hunches over her knees, her dark hair parted in two pigtails. Around her feet are crumpled dusty pink ceramic flowers. She cups one of the flowers in her hands. Text, In the garden, 2017, glazed ceramic, 20 by 36 by 20 inches.
A painting of a young girl in a white bodysuit with blurred white around her body and covering her eyes. In the background, the trunks of trees with pink blossoms. Text, At the cherry orchard, detail, 2020, gesso and watercolor on paper.
A painting of a young girl in a pale pink dress seated on a wooden chair. Above her, heavy pink blossoms drape on branches. A white bulldog with short ears and a thick neck sits next to the chair. Text, Madre Perrita, 2019, Graphite and watercolor on paper, 52 and 1/2 by 45 inches.
A painting of a nude girl with curly dark hair flowing around her face. Her eyes look to the side. She walks among purple blooms hanging on a branch and purple cactus at her feet. Text, Detail, untitled 2020 watercolor on paper, 52 and 1/2 by 45 inches.
A painting of a young girl in a blue dress jumping with her knees tucked to her chest. Her dark black shadow jumps on the gray ground behind her. Text, from the series titled Girl Jumping, 2012, watercolor on paper, 11 by 14 inches.
A sculpture of a pale baby body with bulbous pink boxing gloves for hands. Text, Boxer girl, Glazed stoneware, 29 by 13 by 13 inches.
A painting of a girl on a brown horse's back. She wears a frilly yellow dress with a long train draping down the horse's hindquarters. Next to the horse, a boy in a white shirt, tight jeans and a red neckerchief holding loops of rope. Text, Vaquero, 2020, graphite and watercolor on paper, 74 and 1/2 by 96 and 1/2 inches.
A pencil sketch of the girl on horseback and the horse's head. Text, Detail drawing of Vaquero, girl on horse. The drawing then appears in color.
A painting of a girl with long dark hair in a white dress with a transparent skirt covered in large colorful glowers. Her booted legs are seen beneath the voluminous skirt. A painting of a girl with a long dark ponytail wearing a white wide brimmed hat and a voluminous white skirt with blue roses at the hem. Text, Girl at the Mexican Rodeo, 2020, oil on canvas, 56 by 48 inches.
A painting of a girl with long dark hair, her face in black and white and her body colored, wearing a long white dress covered in vines and flowers. Text, Heavenly lotus, 2019, watercolor on paper, 75 by 52 inches.
A painting of a nude young girl with her fists held up near her chin. She stands on a thick black background of paint strokes. Text, Los Huertos 4, 2019, oil on canvas, 40 by 30 inches.
A painting of a white outline of a nude child over blurred colors of skin tones and hair tones diffusing behind the outline. Text, Los Huertos 3, 2019, oil on canvas, 40 by 30 inches.
A painting of a girl with long dark hair in a pink dress flopping over on her right side and throwing her left arm over her head, her knees bent in front of her. She lays on a dark floor. Text, From the series titled dirt cleaner, 2019, oil on canvas, 40 by 40 inches.
Sculptures of 4 young children. 3 kneel with their arms in the air. One stands behind them facing their backs. A sculpture of a seated dog sits next to the standing child. Text, Perro Pendiente, dog in waiting, 2012, ceramic, 31 by 14 by 12 inches.
The dog sculpture, brown and white, with a dark smudge around its bared fangs.
A sculpture of a child in a pink onesie with a pacifier in its mouth holding a black pistol in its left hand. Text, Con Chupon, 2012, painted ceramic, 29 by 12 by 10 inches.
A painting of two children wearing black face masks, only their eyes visible. One child wears a camouflage shirt and holds a gun slung across his body. Another wears a red shirt and black shorts. Text, Boys playing, 2012, watercolor on paper, 30 by 22 and 1/2 inches.
A painting of a young girl in pink and blue with a ponytail. She kneels in front of a huge machine gun on a tripod with a snake of ammunition coming out of it. Text, Machinegun, 2007, graphite, watercolor on paper. 30 by 44 inches.
A sculpture of a nude young girl with short dark hair and delicate features. Text, Girl looking, watercolor on ceramic, 2010.
Sculptures of 5 children, unpainted and white, three of them standing facing two in the center, one fallen forward on its knees with the other pressing a foot into the fallen kid's back. Text, Kids fighting, 2010, ceramic, Wignall Museum, California.
A painting of a girl with long thick dark hair in pink panties, her arms folded across her chest and a cigarette in her lips. Text, Soy Mexicana, 2016, watercolor on paper, 30 by 22 and 1/2 inches.
A painting of a child in a pink onesie with round ears standing in the corner of a paler pink canvas. They have a pacifier in their mouth and hold a black pistol in their right hand. Text, El Chupon, 2007, oil on canvas, 54 by 46 inches.
A painting of a young girl in a blue dress with a Superman S emblem on the chest, a letter S in red in a yellow diamond shape. She stands with her hands behind her back and wears a Superman mask with a chiseled jaw and curl of black hair. Text, Superman girl, 2012, watercolor on paper.
A painting of a young girl with light brown hair wearing pink panties and holding a cigarette in one hand. she blows smoke out of her red lips. Text, Girl from Argentina, 2010, watercolor on paper.
A sculpture of a nude child on hands and knees facing a lunging black and white bulldog with its mouth open showing sharp teeth. Text, Inocencia's brutalidad. 2013, glazed stoneware.
A painting of a young boy in underpands with a bruise slashing under one dark brown eye. Text, Bruise, 2010, watercolor on paper.
A watercolor painted line drawing of two nude children facing each other and holding hands, one holding a large knife and the other a pistol. Their heads are bowed. Text, universal prayer, 2007, watercolor on paper.
A sculpture of a young girl in a pink hooded top and skirt. Text, kid with hoody, 2012, ceramic and fabrid.
A sculpture of a child in underpants with their hands held open at their sides and their eyes closed and lips parted. Text, Surrender, 2010, ceramic.
A sculpture of a nude child painted silver and wearing big red boxing gloves held up under their chin. Text, Boxer girl, 2018, bronze.
A sculpture of a child in a pink onesie with a pacifier in their mouth and a pistol in their hand. Text, El Chupon 2, 2013, ceramic.
A painting of a child climbing a ladder to a fruit tree's branches. Text, cherry picker, 2012, watercolor on paper.
A sculpture of a nude little girl in blue shoes holding a pink pistol in one hand. She has braided pigtails and a pacifier in her mouth. Text, Zapatos Azul, 2013, glazed ceramic. A photo of Alvarez in a studio with ceramic babies sitting on a table.
White armless baby sculptures sitting on swings with long ropes in a dark room, each lit from above with a spotlight. Text, Falling rope of silence, 2005, Bemis center for contemporary art, Omaha Nebraska.
Sculptures of worn children's shoes. Text, History of immigration, 2010, glazed ceramic.
A sculpture of a squatting young girl with dark hair and eyes and rosy lips and cheeks. Text, Pensamientos. 2014, ceramic.
Alvarez in the studio carving oversized wrestling children from clay.
The finished sculpture, one girl straddling another and choking her neck. Text, Girls fighting, 2009, ceramic.
Photos of Alvarez sculpting in a one week residency during spring break at Gruber Jez foundation in Chulul Mexico. 2008.
Sculptures of children, some missing limbs. A painting of a child in underpants with a mask-like wrinkled gray face. Text, Maya's Ayer, 2010.
A sculpture of a girl with a pink painted body and amore dull face with dappled watercolor eyes and lips.
Sculptures of little girls crouching among flowers on the floor.
Sculptures of boys wearing Mexican wrestling masks. Text, Lucha boys, 2012.
The masked sculptures placed near symmetrical dual staircases in the expansive entryway of the Sheldon Art Museum in Lincoln, Nebraska.
She sketches on paper at the Hayden Art Center and El Centro de las Artes women of domestic violence program.
People watercolor paint faces.
Watercolors of smudged human and child figures in muted colors.
Two infant sculptures in dark gray clay with bulging belly buttons.
The outline of a human in smudged white on a dripping black background. Text, Se Fue, 2005.
Delicate drawings of young children.
A sculpture of a child from the waist down kicking another hunching child. Text, C S S S A 2005 to 2011.
Students with sculptures at the 2010 high school student at California state summer school for the arts.
Sculptures arranged on a giant chess board on the floor.
Children paint on easels. Joslyn Museum, Omaha Nebraska.
Women draw on large sheets of brown paper on the floor. Escuela superior de artes de Yucatan, Mexico.
Students pose with artwork. Corridor Gallery, Brooklyn project.
A painting of children wearing superhero masks. Text, American Heroes, 2009.
A painting of a child wrapped in a leather cloak and wearing a native american feathered headdress. Text, Little chief, 2011.
A painting of a boy in jeans waving a cowboy hat in the air as he rides a toy horse on springs. Text, Conquistador, 2011.
A painting of a boy in a white cowboy hat with a fringed vest and a black eye mask. Text, The lone Ranger, 2015.
A painting of a seated boy in blue shorts holding a water gun to his lips. Text, Boy sitting, 2010.
A painting of two girls standing side by side, one with a rifle slung over her back and the other holding a gun in her hands. They wear heavy boots. One wears pink pants and the other a shirt and panties. Text, Girls with guns, 2012.
A painting of a girl in camo pants and red sneakers aiming a rifle. Text, Girl with red sneakers, 2012.
Sculptures of white legs with rounded featureless toros on a cobbled street in Switzerland.
Paintings of young women in a misty forest with blurred features.
Photos of Alvarez speaking to groups of students.
Students' black and white stylized portraits hanging in the Rush Gallery in Brooklyn.
Diffuse watercolor paintings of young children playing and aiming guns.
A painting of a girl in pigtail braids holding up blue boxing gloves. Text, Boxer, 2016.
Black sculptures of small children in a plaza in France.
A sculpture of an armless girl on a swing. Text, Spanish black clay, 2009.
Two sculptures of children's bodies with arms reaching up. Text, Falling 4, 2011.
Photos of young people painting a colorful mural of a city scene.
A room with furniture made from brown cardboard and paper. A bed, cabinets, table, oven.
Photos of students in classrooms.
Students looking at drawings of dramatic crowded black charcoal lines hung on a wall.
A sculpture of a girl sitting on a wooden crate. Text, Sentada, 2014. A primitive sculpture of a nude female figure. Stevenhagen Collection, Mexico city.
A sculpture of a figure reclined under a thick tree. Text, Abajo del Arbol, 2014.
A sculpture of a seated infant smoking. Text, Fumando, 2014.
A gallery room filled with sculptures of children in gray, silver, and white colors.
A sculpture of a child sprawling on a forest path on its back. Text, Dormida, 2016.
A blue quilt with a ruffled edge. A line drawing of a sleeping girl is drawn on it under painted branches and pink flowers.
A painting of two children boxing with red boxing gloves in a yard ringed with flowers. Text, Dando golpes entre las flores, 2017.
A man works on a large brick kiln.
A sculpture of a mother embracing a child on her lap. A standing child sculpture looks at her. Text, Mother with children, ceramic.
A sculpture of a frowning nude boy sitting on a the white quilt spread over a wooden bed. Text, Boy in a room, 2017.
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