Lydia Rubio
All Night Long, We Heard Birds Passing, 2002
Aluminum, oil paint
Miami Seaport

For her work All Night Long, We Heard Birds Passing, Miami artist Lydia Rubio created a large-scale site specific installation integrating eight aluminum sculptures, six paintings on aluminum panels and text in aluminum letters.  Approaching the installation as an unfolding linear narrative, Rubio incorporated words written 510 years ago by Christopher Columbus as he explored the same waters traveled by these cruise ships. Through this construct, Rubio suggests a parallel and open journey. The painted panels detail twenty-four hours of changing skies, from day to evening, night, sunrise and midday. Integrating expansive views of sky with sculptural birds and text, the piece continues Rubio’s exploration of the journey as a path to transformation, growth and self-discovery.

Lydia Rubio received her Masters from Harvard University and her bachelors from the University of Florida, Gainesville. She has exhibited widely, received numerous fellowships and awards including the State of Florida Individual Artist Fellowship in 1998.  Her work is found in a wide range of private and public collections including the Sackner Archive of Concrete Poetry, the Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, and Bryn Mawr College Library.

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