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The Museums at W&L will present a public artist’s talk with master printmaker and painter Mohammad Omer Khalil on Thursday, Nov. 30, at 5:30 p.m. in the Watson Galleries on W&L’s campus, followed by a reception.
Khalil’s solo exhibition “Musings” is on view until June 1, 2024.
“Musings” was co-curated by four Washington and Lee undergraduate students as part of the spring term 2023 course, “Seminar in Museum Studies,” taught by director of museums Isra El-beshir. The students, Annabel Symington ’25, Annie Zajicek ’24, Hailey Neaman ’25, and Aislinn Niimi ’24, helped lay the curatorial foundation of the exhibition through direct engagement with Khalil.
Khalil is a Sudanese American artist whose career spans more than six decades. His prints explore the tonality of light and darkness, and combine and layer several techniques, including etching, aquatint, sugar lift, spit bite and photo transfer. These “musings” are often products of long periods of reflection, commemorating the things, people and places that have inspired him.
A prolific artist, Khalil’s work has been exhibited and collected widely in major galleries and museums in the United States and around the world, including the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris, the British Museum, and the Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts in Amman.
“It has been a real privilege to work with the caliber of artist like Mohammad Omer Khalil,” said Patricia Hobbs, senior curator of art at the Museums. “For me, his prints are especially compelling with his bold yet sensitive command of acid and inks. To bring these works together in an exhibition at the Museums has been exciting, and is a major accomplishment for W&L.”
For more information, visit https://www.wlu.edu/arts/ museums/visit/exhibitions/ upcoming-exhibits/mohammad- omer-khalil-musings/.
