 As often grotesque yet playful sculptures they present alternative realities and personas whose gestures and postures resist classification.Alba began to do portraiture in 2012.In art historian Maurice Berger's continuing New York Times explorations of the relationship between race and photographic depiction of race, he outlines Alba's reimagining of artists of color as A-list celebrities, giving them a place of honor in a mainstream art world that continues to ignore or play down their accomplishments.