Whitney Bell
May / June, 2017
ALEX BECERRATHE NEW CREATIVESThere were no museums or galleries in Piru, California, the small town where artist Alex Becerra grew up. His aesthetic education came instead from perusing stacks of Lowrider and the Chicano erotic zine Teen Angels. When he discovered he could draw, he practiced by tattooing his peers.“My junior year in high school, I fucked up everyone’s skin at my job,” Becerra says. “I didn’t realize how deep the needle should go.”These elements—the erotic grist of adolescent fan...
