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Around Town: New art exhibit focuses on rituals of death and remembrance
Increasing up in an east Los Angeles barrio, Jose Saïd Osio was surrounded by the iconography and murals of Día de los Muertos (Day of the Lifeless), a holiday celebrated Nov. 1-2, in which spouse and children and close friends get to pay out respects to loved kinds who have died. Those people illustrations or photos ended up a vivid impact on the Asheville visual artist and aided inspire Arrive Honor Your Useless: A Ritual of Remembrance, an exhibition he and fellow area artist Maria Epes will stage at the Nadazul Gallery in the River Arts District Friday, Nov. 5-Monday, Dec. 6, midday-6 p.m., daily. The installation will include things like initial artwork, shrouds, a coffin…