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Public Opening of Fall Exhibitions
Join SLAM for the public opening of Unsettling the City: Julie Mehretu’s “Epigraph, Damascus,” Signs Under Pressure: Jasper Johns Lithographs, and a new installation of contemporary art: Art After 1945. Melissa Venator, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Assistant Curator of Modern Art, and Clare Kobasa, associate curator of prints, drawings, and photographs, will deliver multiple gallery talks throughout the evening. The event will also feature a cash bar and live music.
Please see below for a full schedule of events.
Julie Mehretu, American (born Ethiopia), born 1970; Epigraph, Damascus (detail), 2016; photogravure, sugar lift aquatint, spit bite aquatint, open bite; overall: 85 1/2 inches x 17 feet 1 1/2 inches; Saint Louis Art Museum, Eliza McMillan Trust and Friends Endowment Fund 209:2017a-f; © Julie Mehretu
SLAM Social schedule
4–8 pm, Sculpture Hall
Enjoy drinks from a cash bar.
4 pm, 5:30 pm, Gallery 235 and Sidney S. and Sadie M. Cohen Gallery 234
Curator Clare Kobasa will give gallery talks on Unsettling the City: Julie Mehretu’s “Epigraph, Damascus.”
4:30 pm, Gallery 250
Curators will give gallery talks on Signs Under Pressure: Jasper Johns Lithographs.
5 pm, 6 pm, East Building
Curator Melissa Venator will give gallery talks on a new contemporary art installation, Art After 1945.
Generous support provided by Art Bridges Foundation’s Access for All program.
