Guest speakers will discuss the exhibition “About Time” in a gallery talk titled “The Draw (& Drawbacks) of Family Connections for Women Artists & Their Art” scheduled for

Saturday 03/25 2:00- 3:00 pm

Basic Topic: Rebhan came of age when women faced discrimination in many fields including the arts. Children and family were often seen as encumbrance to a full-fledged commitment to the pursuit of art, yet many feminist artists began to foreground in their art their multi-dimensional lives & attachments. How do we see this in Rebhan’s work & how might it align with feminist art by other women artists of the period?

Panelists include Jennie Klein Professor of Art History, Ohio University / Leena Jayaswal, Professor and Director of Photography, American University /Andrea Liss Professor Emerita Contemporary Art Historian and Cultural Theorist, California State University-San Marcos / Gail Rebhan artist.

Exhibition Write-up: For better and worse, nothing stays still. DC artist Gail Rebhan (b. 1953) knows that well and this, her first museum retrospective, reflects on the many ways her work explores her many different ways over four decades of using and reconfiguring the time-slicing medium of photography to reflect on macro-and-micro-dynamics of interactions inside families—her own and that of other immigrants—on the centuries of change in diverse areas of the nation’s capital, and on the marks of time revealed on her body (along with periodic attempts to fight it) from young adult, to mother of two sons, then caregiver of an aging father, to the present as she continues making art and living while facing the start of her 7th decade.

This event will be held in-person at the museum. Learn more about the exhibition.

Please direct any questions about this event to the museum’s main contact for this event, Patricia Edwine-Poku at [email protected].