Recent Exhibitions

Immortality, Memory Creativity and Survival: The Arts of Alice Lok Cahana, Ronnie Cahana and Kitra Cahana

Begins an American-Canadian tour at the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education, January-June 2025

The idea of survival is a recurrent theme in discussions both of family and of art. Whether understood in physical, mental, or spiritual terms, it is inextricable from the most basic questions of human existence, encompassing the ways in which individual experience can persist after death. Questions of survival and immortality are thus central for understanding the artistically expansive family at the center of this exhibit: Alice Lok Cahana, a Holocaust survivor and painter; her son Rabbi Ronnie Cahana, a writer and stroke survivor; and his daughter Kitra Cahana, a photographer and documentary film-maker who embeds herself in communities in order to tell their stories.

Identity, Art and Migration

Fritz Ascher Society Online Exhibition

Will begin a national tour at Fairfield University Art Museum, January-April 2028

“Identity, Art and Migration” investigates the experience of seven Jewish European artists who were forced to abandon their country of origin, or remain in hiding for years, in response to Nazi policies in effect from 1933 to 1945. These six artists: Anni Albers, Friedel Dzubas, Eva Hesse, Rudi Lesser, Lily Renée and Arthur Szyk emigrated to the United States, while one, Fritz Ascher, stayed behind in Germany, hiding in a basement for three years.

These artists’ lives and work address the multi-layered concept of identity and the particulars of its expression from slightly different angles. We invite you to explore with us how these wrenching experiences affected their sense of who they were, and the art they made.

Spoils of War

Universal Museum of Art
2017-2018 
co-curated with Marc Masurovsky

An extensive exploration in virtual reality of the range and variety of works plundered by the Nazis and their subsequent fate, from the end of the war to the present day.

Stone, Silence and Speech: Sculptures by Sy Gresser

Katzen Museum, American University, Maryland
April-September, 2015

From Sea to Shining Sea: America Through our Eyes

DC Arts Center, Spring, 2006.

An exhibition of work by 19 artists in various media from across the country either reflecting on water in various modes or commenting on the political history of America with respect to the ideal versus the reality of sea-to-sea freedoms for all—or both.

Inside and Out: House and Home

Bermuda National Gallery, September, 2003 – January, 2004.

An exhibition of 59 works from four continents (both contemporary works and older works) focused on the paired terms and concepts of “house” and “home,” and the varied ways in which such concepts can and have been expressed visibly across time and space.

From the Land of Myth and Fire: Eight Millennia of Georgian Art and Culture

Scheduled to open in late 2001 at the Walters Art Gallery and to travel to Mingei International Museum in San Diego and Houston Fine Arts Museum.*

An exhibition from half a dozen museums in Georgia focusing on the rich and diverse history of Georgian material culture, from its ancient metallurgy to its medieval icons and manuscripts to its post-medieval textiles to its early twentieth-century paintings.