Like language, what we see can also be a benediction. Kahn's paintings and sculpture have been shown in more than 25 solo exhibitions and in more than 70 museums and galleries, receiving national critical acclaim linking his work to that of the Luminists, the American Romantics, and to the Stieglitz group. It was made possible by sponsorship of the Exhibition Advisory Committee of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, New York. The exhibition's showing at the de Saisset Museum is supported by the Santa Clara University 150th Anniversary fund and is part of SCU's celebration of its founding by Italian Jesuits in 1851. Pappas, an assistant professor in SCU's art and art history department, will use slides to show the ways that Jewish artists have expressed their religious and ethnic identity in American art in the past century.
Admission is free.
The 17,000 square foot museum opened next to the Mission Santa Clara de Asis on the Santa Clara University campus in 1955. The member-supported, privately funded institution operated by Santa Clara University, is accredited by the American Association of Museums. There is a preview of the Tobi Kahn exhibit for the media and invited guests only on Friday evening, Sept. 22.