Adtran, Jurenko, Thurber & Guild Galleries
August 20 – November 26, 2023

Rania Matar, Sarah and Aya, Baalbek, Lebanon, 2019, 19.2 x 24 in. 25.2 x 30 in. framed

Lecture and Preview Party with Rania Matar

Thursday, August 17 | 6 – 8 p.m.
Members: $60 | Non-Members: $85

Born and raised in Lebanon, Rania Matar moved to the United States in 1984. She has dedicated her work to exploring issues of personal and collective identity through photographs of female adolescence and adulthood. Matar works both in the United States and the Middle East in an effort to focus on notions of identity and individuality within the context of the underlying universality of these experiences.

SHE features 50 large-scale color images of young women in their 20s—the ages of Matar’s own daughters—leaving the cocoon of home and transitioning into womanhood. In earlier projects, Matar photographed young women in relation to the controlled environment of their bedrooms. Here, she captures them in the larger arena they find themselves in after leaving home—the global and complicated backdrop that now constitutes their lives in transition. Organized by The Museum Box LLC, Boston, MA.

Thank you, Sponsors!

President’s Circle Sponsors:

Samia Spencer

Additional Support:

Alabama State Council on the Arts
Huntsville Museum of Art Guild