Photo Exhibit Offers Reflections of Egypt
For release: Nov. 6, 2002
For press information, contact Gabrielle Maxey

A Chicago artist's photographic images of ancient Egypt will be on display beginning Nov. 16 at the Art Museum of The University of Memphis. "Barbara Kasten: Reflections of Egypt" will run through Jan. 18, 2003.

A reception Friday, Nov. 15, will make the opening of the show. It will be held from 5 to 7:30 p.m. at the Art Museum.
Kasten may be best known for her large-scale photographs of notable architectural sites. Many of her recent works, with their use color, light and focus, depict artifacts of ancient cultures.

Kasten is represented in many public collections, including those at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, as well as those in galleries in Japan, Mexico, Poland and Lithuania.

She earned an MFA from the California College of Arts and Crafts and received a Fulbright Hays Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship.

Admission is free to the reception and the museum. Regular museum hours are Monday through Saturday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. For more information, call 901-678-2224.

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