[FAC] Thursday Oct. 1 ArtHop @ Cesar E. Chavez Education Center

[Maria Franco]

Thursday, October 1 ArtHop from 5-8pm at

"Private Spaces in Public Places"
at Cesar E. Chavez Education Center
2500 Stanislaus 
Exhibition September 28 - November 26
Featuring Artist Lyssa Bird
Artist Reception: October 15th 2009, 5pm - 8pm 
 
Artist Bird is a Graduate Student at CSU Fresno.  "Private Spaces in Public
Spaces" examines roadside altars in a way which is not possible from a
vehicle speeding by at 50+ miles per hour.  What is installed at Chavez is
but a small but important body of work from Bird's masters' portfolio.  The
work in totality attempts to embody the unique and individualistic way
people use public space to memorialize loved ones which have died due to
tragic accidents.  Some from automobile accidents, others through drowning
and heat exhaustion. 

In May of 1998, Bird lost her husband in a single vehicle accident.  He died
as a result of his injuries and the inability of emergency services to reach
him due to traffic congestion.  She states, "Most of my work has been an
attempt at reconciling this loss and the ugliness of death with the beauty I
see all around me.  This current series of work is a continuation of my own
self-examination as well as a look at how others deal with their own grief
and feelings of loss.  Roadside altars have become a widespread means of
private grief being displayed in a most public of places."





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