American University Museum at the Katzen Calendar

Join artists David Humphrey and Matthew Kenyon in a gallery talk on their current exhibitions.

Occasionally called a Pop Surrealist, Humphrey’s work hybridizes a variety of depiction schemes and idioms to make works charged with psycho-social content and narrative potential. This exhibition is a selection of work from the past ten years. The images in this exhibition range from seemingly ...more

Type: Lecture/Speaker
Host: American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center

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Members Preview Night: Guided Tour with director Jack Rasmussen
Friday, January 25, 5–7 p.m.
American University Museum, Katzen Arts Center
Admission is free to American University Museum Members

Warm up on a special night for AU Museum Members only! Come preview the winter exhibitions before they open to the public, and attend a special tour with curator/director, Jack Rasmussen at 6:15 p.m. ...more

Type: Lecture/Speaker
Host: American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center

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Andrei Molodkin: CRUDE
January 26 through March 17, 2013
Andrei Molodkin is an internationally recognized contemporary Russian artist engaged in deconstructing the economic realities of geopolitical praxis. Consisting of his monumental ballpoint-pen drawings and his three-dimensional constructions filled with crude oil, Molodkin's exhibition "CRUDE" effectively articulates the space between ...more

Type: Exhibit
Host: American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center

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Grisha Bruskin: H-Hour
January 26 through March 17, 2013
Contemporary Russian artist Grisha Bruskin's new sculpture project "H-Hour" examines the myth of the enemy in very diverse manifestations: the hostile state, class enemy, enemy of the subconscious, 'the other' as enemy, time, chronos and death as enemies, the enemy of the human species, among others. His work explores how the trivial is ...more

Type: Exhibit
Host: American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center

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Susan Yanero
January 26, 2013 through March 17, 2013
Former AU professor Alan Feltus describes Susan Yanero's paintings as… "close to abstraction while being, at the same time, fascinating images of her interior world made through the magic of the immediacy of her brushstroke laying down color in such a way that drawing and painting and surface exist in equal measure, strong, direct, and ...more

Type: Exhibit
Host: American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center

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