Thu 5/8 Vincent Valdez: “The Strangest Fruit” Vincent Valdez, The Strangest Fruit, 2013. Image by Mark Menjivar. Named after the Abel Meripool poem and song “Strange Fruit” (which was written in protest to 1930s-era lynchings and popularized by Billy Holiday’s recording in 1939), local artist Vincent Valdez’s large-scale portrait series The Strangest Fruit brings the lost/erased […]