Reopened Portland Art Museum offers rare opportunity to see work of activist-artist Ed Bereal
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Ed Bereal is shown in 2019 with his holographic installation, “Exxon: Five Horsemen of the Apocalypse.” Photo courtesy of David Scherrer and the Whatcom MuseumDavid Scherrer and the Whatcom Museum
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By Alex V. Cipolle | For The Oregonian/OregonLive
The year is 1962 and, in a garden-level San Francisco apartment, legendary activist-artist Ed Bereal sculpts the contours of his lover’s face as a tear runs down her cheek.
Her name was Barbara, and she was pregnant with their child. As young starving artists, they had decided to give up the child for adoption.