8 faculty members of the Visual Communication Department of the American University in Dubai held an exhibition of their work at the Manu Chhabria Gallery, Dubai Community Theatre and Arts Centre.

The exhibition entitled 4+4, which will run until the 26 th of October 2006, was attended by a huge crowd of art lovers and particularly AUD students eager to see the work of their professors and mentors.

On display were the works of art of Roberto Lopardo, Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès, Michael Bray , Sarah Lahti, Raymond Prucher , Julia Townsend , Marcelo Lima and Leona Collins

"In art and life in general, four+four seldom equals eight.

Four + four was produced by 4 men and four women bound together by friendship and a singular vision. They have come from four corners of the world, and eight different artistic disciplines, to share their views and their work, and to give direction to the young talents that cross their paths.

Four + four equals millions of colors, various media, eight distinct socio-political and personal voices all hinting to the boundless possibilities of art as a powerful agent of truth.

Four + four provides a perspective of what it means to be an artist, displaced and out of place, yet confined within the forgiveness of our contemporary realities.

Four + four is a kaleidoscope arabesque, an optical trip inside the minds of eight individual artists/designers and educators"