January 2006

CAMPUS NEWS

AU Museum at the Katzen Opens Winter Exhibitions

The American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center reopened on January 18 with three exciting new exhibitions. Comic Reality: Political Cartoons by Ibero-American Artists will be open from January 18 to February 1, and From the Studio and Remembering Marc and Komei will be open from January 18 to March 12. Since it opened last July, more than 11,000 visitors have walked the halls of the American University Museum.

Caricature of George W. Bush and Tony Blair, by Rui Pimentel

Comic Reality: Political Cartoons by Ibero-American Artists features more than 100 new or never-before-published political cartoons from 20 Latin American countries, Spain, and Portugal, created by Ibero-America's best-known practitioners of the genre.

Revenge of the Goldfish, @1981 by Sandy Skoglund

From the Studio showcases work by the 21 artists who make up the studio faculty in AU's Department of Art. The work addresses a wide range of contemporary issues through painting, drawing, sculpture, and multimedia installation.

The Country Club, by Isabel Manalo

Remembering Marc and Komei introduces the outstanding art collection of H. Marc Moyens who, with Komei Wachi, owned and operated Gallery K for nearly three decades until their deaths, months apart, in 2003. Mixing locals and nonlocals with Europeans, Moyens and Wachi eschewed fashion in favor of the offbeat, the magical, and the visually arresting.

The next exhibition to debut will be, Body Languages: Mary Coble and Robert Flynt, opening February 7 and continuing through March 12 in conjunction with the 13th Annual Lavender Languages and Linguistics Conference. Flynt’s work is a display of sepia-toned photos of male and female nudes as large-scale collages, overlaid with 18th and 19th century anatomy charts. Coble, using her blood as a medium, took the names of 430 victims of hate crimes and put them on a large grid of small paper sheets.

Museum volunteers are planning a family day in mid-April, so stay tuned for more details.

For more information, visit www.american.edu/museum.

-Amy Fox, SOC/BA 98, SOC/MA '05

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