Opening Reception Oct 4 6pm - 9pm
On view Oct 4 - Oct 25

“La Otra” can be translated in English as “the other,” or “the other one.” There exists in your life right now, at least one or more persons who identify with or as La Otra. This type of person doesn’t always have a particular identifier that you can explicitly describe, and if they can’t necessarily be picked out within a group or a crowd, they stand out in conversation when exposing and living as their most authentic selves.

Because of the intrepid passion that emerges from constant encounters of being dismissed and underestimated, they become the souls of change and progress. They become the people who remind us of who we need to be for ourselves. Whatever identity or classification of person that may be.

Using paintings, childhood relics, video, and installation, Aliza J. Bejarano has constructed an experience of the various and often times, “othering” facets of her Self, which culminate into the artist and individual she has become today. La Otra describes the upbringing and experiences of a queer Latina, born in the USA to immigrant parents, attempting to navigate between cultures, between class, between the fluidity of sexuality, and throughout planes of understanding, purpose, vulnerability and the strength required to live as one’s true Self. La Otra: An Artist’s Journey chronicles how an artist carries and creates from owning many classifications of identity.
Come experience the art born of this narrative.

http://alizabejarano.com/
IG: @aliza_b_
Studio #79