Join us at Loiter Galleries in Long Beach, California, for "2024 Oasis in the Woods," a display of "Land Art" or "Earth Art"—the Art of Deep/Risktaking Play in the Environment. The Opening Ceremony will be on Friday, August 23rd, from 6-8 p.m. The exhibit will be open on Saturday, August 24th, from 1pm - 6pm and Will Close on Sunday, August 25th, from 2-6pm.
Happy/L.A. Hyder remembers taking her first serious photograph on a fourth grade school trip, leaning over the railing to focus on the swirling water below. She purchased her first serious camera in 1969; her latest series is from a trip to Japan for an exhibit in 2023. After 48 years in San Francisco, where she purchased that first camera, she moved to Mendocino on the North Coast of California.
As a member of the Vida Gallery collective at the SF Women's Building, she produced her first installation in 1982. With Caryl Henry-Alexander, she created a labyrinth on the land in the first Oasis in Auburn, CA. Hyder says, 'Participating in this rendition of Oasis in the Woods is bringing all my creative senses and collaborative skills into play. I look forward to what we four bring together.'
Hyder's self-portrait 'New Country Daughter/Lebanese American is published in 'Lesbian Art in America', Harmony Hammond, ed., and in the third and fourth editions of 'This Bridge Called My Back', Gloria Anzaldua and Cherrie Moraga, eds. She was the founder and served as director of LVA: Lesbians in the Visual Arts (1990-2003). Her writing is published in 'Arab & Arab American Feminisms', eds: Rabab Abdulhadi, Evelyn Asultany, & Nadine Naber; 'Dispatches from Lesbian America, eds: Xequina Maria Berber, Giovanna Capone, Cheela Romain Smith.
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