MARQUETTE, MI – Stephen Allen Hyska, 55, of Marquette, passed away on February 15, 2021.
He was born in Marquette on November 9, 1965, to Fran and Carole (Aldrich) Hyska. As a young boy, he loved fishing and acting as a bat boy for his dad’s softball team. At the age of five, he moved to Freeport, Grand Bahama Island. He had a very active childhood filled with beaches, swimming, and many friends. At age 15, he moved to Tuckerton, NJ, where he lived for several years and enjoyed playing electric guitar in a garage band with friends. He relocated several more times during his life, spending most of those years in Los Angeles, CA, and Hampton, VA, before coming full circle and returning to Marquette.
Gregg Bordowitz on “The Conference of the Animals”
Ulrike Müller,
The Conference of the Animals (A Mural), 2020, latex paint. Installation view, Queens Museum, New York. Photo: Hai Zhang.
I GREW UP IN QUEENS about twenty minutes from Flushing Meadows Park, the site of the 1964 New York World’s Fair and the home of the Queens Museum, where “The Conference of the Animals” opened last September an exhibition of a forty-five-foot wall mural by artist Ulrike Müller and of children’s drawings selected by independent curator Amy Zion. The Unisphere, an enormous steel globe visible through the glass doors and windows of the museum’s lobby, was an abiding feature of my childhood landscape, glimpsed through the windows of cars and buses and visited regularly. Conceived as an ornament of the exposition, the sphere, according to the New York City Parks Department,