Opening Reception | Spring 2026 Exhibitions

Join Georgetown University Art Galleries on Friday, January 23rd from 6-8 pm for an Opening Reception to celebrate our Spring 2026 exhibitions: Diana Al-Hadid: unbecoming, speculative morphologies featuring Kendall Buster and linn meyers, and You Were Meant to See This by Professor Marisa Stratton. Enjoy live music and light refreshments. This event is free and open to the public, but space is limited.

Diana Al: Hadid unbecoming is a survey of paintings and sculptures by Diana Al-Hadid that questions how constructions of femininity take form over time, a development that can be understood in part by thinking through Al-Hadid’s research and artistic practice. The artist’s reworking of materials and form is a process that models how one can similarly transform the social expectations about womanhood and women’s behavior to instead find the power in being “unbecoming.” Based in New York, Al-Hadid works prolifically between painting, sculpture, and more recently, handmade paper. Born in Syria in 1981, Al-Hadid moved to the United States as a child. She grew up in Ohio, earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Kent State University, and a Master of Fine Arts from Virginia Commonwealth University.

speculative morphologies brings together the work of Kendall Buster and linn meyers, two artists who build imagined worlds through systems of line, shape, and form. Their practices transform essential forms into living images that shift, breathe, and evolve. In the exhibition, morphology becomes a way to understand not only how these works are made, but how they function as artworks that are open, dynamic, and alive with possibility.

You Were Meant to See This by Professor Marisa Stratton explores the digital landscape of divination and fortune-telling through the world of TikTok livestream. Just as TikTok’s algorithms produce images in sequence, tarot readers offer viewers seemingly random images in a structured arrangement—an ancient recommendation engine placed within a contemporary one. Working from screenshots of the livestreams, Stratton repositions the readers into traditional tarot spreads (past/present/future, the cross of truth, celtic cross), placing them inside the structures they invoke. Painted in oil and drawn in pencil, the works reference and inhabit the illustrative world of tarot.

Image: The Georgetown University Art Galleries' Fall 2025 Opening Reception. Photography by Tony Powell.