Untitled (Emana), 2011 - Dr. Lakra
About the Work
About Untitled (Emana)
The woman in Untitled (Emana) is a coy and demure starlet whom Dr. Lakra has covered with tattoos and surrounded with inked drawings of devils, serpents, skulls, and ghosts. The dark and cartoonish figures perched on her shoulder and whispering ...Read More
The woman in Untitled (Emana) is a coy and demure starlet whom Dr. Lakra has covered with tattoos and surrounded with inked drawings of devils, serpents, skulls, and ghosts. The dark and cartoonish figures perched on her shoulder and whispering in her ear may be poised to transform the beautiful, seemingly harmless woman into a wild, renegade, and perhaps dangerous force.Read Less
About the Artist
About Dr. Lakra
Mexican-born Dr. Lakra (Jerónimo López Ramírez) is a renowned tattoo artist based in Oaxaca. Under his pseudonym, loosely translating as "Dr. Delinquent," he draws ...Read More
Mexican-born Dr. Lakra (Jerónimo López Ramírez) is a renowned tattoo artist based in Oaxaca. Under his pseudonym, loosely translating as "Dr. Delinquent," he draws over vintage printed materials and found objects rather than skin, manipulating images of pin-up girls, 1940s Mexican businessmen, luchadores, and Japanese sumo wrestlers. His gallery installations are cabinets of curiosities featuring intricate wall paintings of beautiful women, indigenous statues and deities, collages crafted from vintage magazines penned and inked by the artist, human-like insect heads encased in vitrines, dolls that have been transformed into gang members, and images of pin-up girls with full tattoo sleeves. Using traditional tattoo iconography as well as a free hand drawing style, Dr. Lakra brings energy to every page, canvas, or object that he floods with paint and ink.
Dr. Lakra was the subject of a solo exhibition earlier this year at the Drawing Center in New York, which followed a show of his work at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston in 2010. He has exhibited widely throughout Mexico, the United States, and Europe at venues such as the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca (MACO), Oaxaca, Mexico; Tate Modern, London, England; Matthew Marks Gallery in New York, NY; Galerie Chantel Crousel in Paris, France; and Andrew Kreps Gallery in New York, NY. Read Less
Dr. Lakra was the subject of a solo exhibition earlier this year at the Drawing Center in New York, which followed a show of his work at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston in 2010. He has exhibited widely throughout Mexico, the United States, and Europe at venues such as the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca (MACO), Oaxaca, Mexico; Tate Modern, London, England; Matthew Marks Gallery in New York, NY; Galerie Chantel Crousel in Paris, France; and Andrew Kreps Gallery in New York, NY. Read Less
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