Exhibit Title: "The Earth Remembers/La Tierra Recuerda" Dates: Jan. 13 - March 19 Where: Carl Gorman Museum 1316 Hart Hall University of California, Davis Hours: Noon-5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, or by appointment Artist reception: 1 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 21 Artist lecture: 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 21 Bernardi's exhibition of her frescoes on paper corresponds with her work with the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team. In 1994, she participated in an exhumation at El Peten, Guatemala. The exhibition title and the work of the same name, "The Earth Remembers/La Tierra Recuerda," calls to the presence of those who have disappeared through the memory of survivors and investigators and through the memory of the earth in which their remains are hidden. Bernardi began working with the exhumation team by way of her sister Patricia Bernardi, a forensic anthropologist. The team has responded to calls worldwide to investigate accounts of disappearances and massacres in Argentina, El Salvador, Guatemala and Ethiopia. The artist creates her frescoes on paper by applying pure pigments to water-soaked paper, which is then run through a press. The press embeds the pigment onto the fibers of the paper. Bernardi's resulting works are hagiographic remembrances to the dead. She layers vibrant colors, which surround etched figures and clothing reminiscent of the remains buried in the earth. Bernardi, who was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and now lives in Berkeley, has a Master of Fine Arts degree from UC Berkeley and from the National Institute of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires. She teaches art at Mills College in Oakland and the San Francisco Art Institute in San Francisco. The Carl Gorman Museum was established in 1973 and named after the late Carl Gorman, faculty emeritus of the Native American Studies Department at UC Davis. The exhibit is free and open to the public.