Palimpsest Art Exhibit Opening Rececption

We are delighted to host our second art exhibit featuring the works of three contemporary female artists, and invite you to join us for the official opening ceremony on Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2025 from 6-8 PM.

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Through painting, mixed media, and narrative imagery, artists Tinam Valk, Sabine Carlson, and Jenny Kanzler explore the multilayered nature of identity, memory, and place, drawing upon a shared heritage rooted in German, Eastern European, and American cultural exchange. As with the manuscript pages from which the exhibition takes its name—painted, erased, and layered—their works bear the visible traces of earlier personal and collective histories.

Sharing a love of the language of painting, they fuse separate sensibilities and so facilitate a conversation with their pasts and with the viewer – acting as a transatlantic conduit, using their personal stories to facilitate a broader narrative.

Their artistic practices echo traditions of Central and Eastern European narrative art, German expressionism, and the Eastern European folk-surrealist lineage, while also engaging contemporary questions of identity, belonging, and psychological intrigue.

Location:

German-American Heritage Museum
719 6th Street NW
Washington, DC 20001

For more information and to register, please visit:

https://gahmusa.org/new-art-exhibit-palimpsest-to-open-at-gahm-on-oct-15/