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Scope and Contents 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...