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can take over 5 months to complete, with the artist working 10 to 12 hours a day, and can use over 700 pencils. In 2013, Alejandre was announced as one of eight grantee artists whose art would be installed at one of the Los
Angeles Metro stations along the new Expo line that runs from downtown Los Angeles to Santa Monica beach. His twelve panels, “Panoramas,” are displayed at the Rancho Park/Westwood station. Panels “depict the legs of travelers headed to their destinations: a business professional with her rolling briefcase, a parent with a stroller, and a hummingbird in flight,” creating “story of place through the act of commuting.” His gallery work focuses around issues of machismo and masculinity and he uses art “as a means to acknowledge and process what he confesses to be ‘past insecurities, insults, and painful memories.’”
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Open Your Eyes/Abre Los Ojos, The Muckenthaler Cultural Center, Fullerton, California, US
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25th Annual Day of the Dead Altars and Ephemera, The Folk Tree, Pasadena, California, US
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Funny Face: Group Show of New Portraiture, Red Pipe Gallery, Los Angeles, California, US
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Continuing the Latino Tradition, Channing Peake Gallery, Santa Barbara, California, US
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Drawing from the Inside Out: Projects for Beginning through Advanced Drawing
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