This catalogue depicts raw material for the making of collages. Dr Lakra's birth name was Jeronimo Lopez Ramirez. In April 2010, an exhibition of his works took place at the institute of Contemporary Art Boston. Roberta Smith in the New york Times commented as follows. On Wednesday the INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART in Boston will open the first museum exhibition in this country devoted to the work of DR. LAKRA. Dr. Who? you ask? Dr. Lakra is the well-chosen adopted name of Jeronimo Lopez Rami­rez, who was born in Oaxaca, Mexico, in 1972. "Lakra" is Spanish slang for delinquent, and "lacra" means scar. He is a self-taught practitioner of the somewhat renegade art of tattooing "” which involves a deliberate, refined form of scarring. Dr. Lakra's work was first exhibited in New York in the groundbreaking "Pierced Hearts and True Love" tattoo exhibition at the Drawing Center in 1995. Since then he has become only the latest crossover artist to achieve prominence in the ever-more-porous art world, following figures like the cartoonist Robert Crumb and the album-cover illustrator Robert Williams. It helps that in addition to tattooing real people, Dr. Lakra also draws and incises tattoolike motifs of certain stereotypes: scantily clad women, starlets and wrestlers culled from old magazines. He also appropriates the occasional Japanese print. The results are scary, obsessive and sexy, mixing eras and cultures with a sardonic, even vengeful edge. They turn anyone, no matter how seemingly blond or all-American, into an exotic, foreign creature. The Boston show will contain nearly 70 works, mostly on paper but also on plastic cups and dolls. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.