Gallery Talk: About Time- The Deeply Social Art of Gail Rebhan

Artist Gail Rebhan, with invited guests will discuss the exhibition "About Time" in a gallery talk titled "The Deeply Social Art of Gail Rebhan" scheduled for

Sunday 02/5 2:00- 3:00 pm

Basic Topic: Reconsidering the many ways Rebhan jumps the narrow lane of art-for-art’s sake in terms of resisting the simple power of the mute single image by exploring with a variety of formal techniques the imbricated categories of the-personal-is-political (raised by 2nd wave feminism) & the political is (or defines the) personal.

Panelists include Jack Rasmussen, Director of the American University Museum / Steve Nelson, Dean of the National Gallery of Art’s Center for the Advanced Study of the Visual Arts / Sally Stein, Curator and Professor Emerita, Art History, University of California-Irvine.

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. .

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

Image: Gail Rebhan, Living # 11, 2022. Archival pigment print mounted on aluminum, 33 x 22.5 inches

Host or Publisher American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center