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Plan to be out and about in San Francisco next Friday? Dinner in SOMA? Are you headed to the Civic Center neighborhood for 2 Blocks of Art on 6th?
Come west a few blocks and join us for some tasty treats and good conversation with Lyssa Palu-ay. The Boston-based artist's project, Places Left Unfinished, draws on traditions as disparate as the Celtic and Tibetan to discover in the landscape both a sacred and literal geography.
The photograph is akin to the mask in Mesoamerican tradition, which allowed the human to embody characteristics of the gods. These images reveal and conjure the layered forces and histories beneath the surface of the land we inhabit, whether Tibet, a remote corner of Maine, or South Boston. Beginning intuitively with the photograph, Palu-ay also uses drawing and video to expand her dialogue with the natural world.
Palu-ay is an associate professor at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston, where she received her MFA. She is currently pursuing a Doctorate in Education at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, focusing on education and equity issues. Palu-ay has exhibited widely across the country for the last decade.
