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The Foster Gallery at Noble and Greenough School welcomes “A Girl and Her Room,” an exhibition of photographs taken by Boston artist Rania Matar. The show features a series of photographs taken in the U.S. and Middle East of teenage girls in their rooms. The exhibit will run Jan. 9 through Feb. 17, 2012. A reception with Matar will take place on Thurs., Jan. 19, 5-7 p.m. The show is free and open to the public.
“This project is about teenage girls and young women at a transitional time of their lives, alone in the privacy of their own personal space and surroundings: their bedroom, a womb within the outside world,” Matar said in a press release.
“I am fascinated with the similarities of issues girls at that age face regardless of culture, religion and background as they learn to deal with all the pressures that arise and as they become consciously aware of the surrounding world wherever this may be.”
Matar is full-time photographer and teacher at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. She also teaches photography in the summers to teenage girls in Lebanon's refugee camps with the assistance of non-governmental organizations. Matar’s work has been published and exhibited widely in the U.S. and internationally.
“A Girl and Her Room” is also currently on view at the Beirut Exhibition Center in Beirut, Lebanon and the Mosaic Rooms in London.
The Foster Gallery is open to the public without charge, weekdays from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. and weekends, by appointment. For more information, please visit www.fostergallery.org.
Nobles is a coeducational, nonsectarian day and five-day boarding school for students in grades seven through 12. It is located on a 187-acre campus in Dedham. For more information, visit www.nobles.edu.
The Foster Gallery at Noble and Greenough School welcomes “A Girl and Her Room,” an exhibition of photographs taken by Boston artist Rania Matar. The show features a series of photographs taken in the U.S. and Middle East of teenage girls in their rooms. The exhibit will run Jan. 9 through Feb. 17, 2012. A reception with Matar will take place on Thurs., Jan. 19, 5-7 p.m. The show is free and open to the public.
“This project is about teenage girls and young women at a transitional time of their lives, alone in the privacy of their own personal space and surroundings: their bedroom, a womb within the outside world,” Matar said in a press release.
“I am fascinated with the similarities of issues girls at that age face regardless of culture, religion and background as they learn to deal with all the pressures that arise and as they become consciously aware of the surrounding world wherever this may be.”
Matar is full-time photographer and teacher at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. She also teaches photography in the summers to teenage girls in Lebanon's refugee camps with the assistance of non-governmental organizations. Matar’s work has been published and exhibited widely in the U.S. and internationally.
“A Girl and Her Room” is also currently on view at the Beirut Exhibition Center in Beirut, Lebanon and the Mosaic Rooms in London.
The Foster Gallery is open to the public without charge, weekdays from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. and weekends, by appointment. For more information, please visit www.fostergallery.org.
Nobles is a coeducational, nonsectarian day and five-day boarding school for students in grades seven through 12. It is located on a 187-acre campus in Dedham. For more information, visit www.nobles.edu.
