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I’m in the process of laying out our next show for an opening this Saturday to which you’re all invited. The artist is Alejandra Laviada, a 28 year old Mexican photographer whose work consists of going into old buildings in Mexico City that are about to be demolished, creating sculptures out of the detritus she finds, and then making a photograph of what she’s created.

Her pictures burst with inventiveness, and her prints are large, colorful, and luminous. They remind me of a cross between the work of Tara Donovan (who was just awarded a MacArthur “Genius” grant) and the still lives of Irving Penn.

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(While of course remaining totally original.)

People are always interested in how someone gets a show so here’s
how it happened. I first saw Alejandra’s work in 2007 as part of PEEK – the follow up to Art & Commerce’s first Festival of Emerging Photo-
graphers. It stood out for me there and I made a mental note of the work.

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