ink drawings

By Natalia Ciolko Albert Alvarez’s show of drawings and a single painting at Fl!ght Gallery were, from a distance, innocent enough. Black ink drawings rendered envelope-size. But when approached, the painstakingly hatched characters — slovenly obese, wretched, and just plain disturbed — become electric. Themes of prostitution, vagrancy, and violence pervade the work, but with […]