All Day

December 2, 2010–February 28, 2011
William Morris Hunt Library
300 Massachusetts Avenue
Boston, MA 02115

This eleventh exhibition in collaboration with the William Morris Hunt Library features student work from:

Laura Ahking
Chris Ford
Joanna Tam
Cindy Tsai
Amanda Bonaiuto
Joo Lee Kang
Anthony Montuori
Amelia Smith
Alaina Gurdak
Jesse Collins
Allison Hale
John Gonzalez
Scott Winter 

All Day

Add/Drop studio courses
Change enrollment status with refund
Add academic and art history courses

12:30PM - 2:00PM

Remis Auditorium, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Admission is free and open to the public. Note: attendees must obtain free tickets from a kiosk at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston to gain admittance.

Part of the Professional Practices for Visual Artists lecture series, funded by the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation.

Patty Chang was born in 1972 in San Francisco. Originally trained as a painter, she graduated with a BA from the University of California at San Diego in 1994 and shortly after moved to New York, where she became involved with the performance scene. Chang has had solo shows at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid (2000), Baltic Art Center in Visby, Sweden (2001), Jack Tilton Gallery in New York (1999 and 2001), Hammer Museum in Los Angeles (2005), and Bowdoin College Museum of Art in Brunswick, Maine (2008), among others. She has appeared in group shows and performances such as the Performance Festival at Kunstpanorama in Lucerne (2000), Quadrennial of Contemporary Art at the Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst in Ghent (2001), Mirror, Mirror on the Wall at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in North Adams (2002), Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self at the International Center of Photography in New York (2003), Still Points of the Turning World at SITE Santa Fe (2006), Family Pictures at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York (2007), and New Directors/New Film Festival at the Museum of Modern Art in New York (2008). She produced Revolver, a show for European cable television, in 2002. Chang has received grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts (1999), Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation (2000), Rockefeller Foundation (2003), and Tides Foundation (2005). In 2003, she served as resident faculty at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

5:30PM - 7:30PM

Alfond Auditorium, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Admission is free and open to the public. Note: attendees must obtain free tickets from a kiosk at the MFA to gain admittance.

"Accident and control, anxiety and euphoria orbit one another in Kristin Baker's current series of paintings, which is inspired by the theatricality of auto racing and fuses the sport's electric colors, industrial materials, and iconic imagery with passages of modernist abstraction."
—Debra Singer, executive director and chief curator, The Kitchen

12:30PM - 2:00PM

SMFA Room B311

Rose Lowder, French filmmaker of painterly single frames. In some ways, Rose Lowder's kinetic, color-saturated, Vincent Van Gogh-esque structural films could just as easily have fit Jean-Luc Godard's description of "blind, trembling pans" as interior representations of the artist's psychological state (as Godard once described Alain Resnais' Van Gogh). In this case, composed of frame by frame stationary shots of a lush field of sunflowers in full bloom near Bédarrides, Vaucluse where the focus of each successive image varies according to prescribed subject patterns - the fluttering of petals, the (sideways) bending of the wind, the cross-pollination of bees, the casting shadows by passing clouds - the apparent movement in the film results from the individual frame changes in the depth of field. Rather than simply capturing the diurnal, two-dimensional, to and fro motion of sunflowers swaying in the breeze, the focal modulation results in a momentary (single frame) displacement perpendicular to the plane of the film frame, causing the resulting image to appear to pulse. Expounding on the ideas presented in her first film, Roulement, Rouerie, Aubage, Lowder's trompe l'oeil "still life" composition is similarly rooted in the mechanism of the mind-eye's registration of images, where the placement of the frames of an image within the continuity of a film strip itself alters its apparent behavior. Creating an increasingly animated portrait of the verdant sunflower field as the natural movement of the sunflowers seemingly triggers a corresponding, proportional change in the camera's alternating focal length, the resulting image becomes a dynamic reflection of the subject itself in its rustic beauty and irresistible vibrancy.

All Day

February 23–March 3, 2011
Mission Hill Building, 130 St. Alphonsus St., Boston

All Day

February 23–March 3, 2011
Mission Hill Building, 130 St. Alphonsus St., Boston

2:00PM - 3:00PM

SMFA Room A203

In 2010, Master Printer Carolyn Muskat was invited to teach a lithography workshop at the Hanoi Contemporary Arts Center in Vietnam. Sponsored by the Indochina Arts Partnership, which promotes cultural understanding through shared art, this experience provided a unique opportunity to work with some of Vietnam's top artists in Hanoi's new printmaking facility.

Please join Carolyn and the Print + Paper area for a presentation and discussion of her travels.

12:30PM - 2:00PM

Rescheduled from January 27.

Animation Studio B113, SMFA main building

Brian Knep is a Boston-based new-media artist who uses science and technology to explore change, healing, struggle and acceptance. Often his works are dynamic and respond to changes in their environment. Some are simply aware of the passage of time while others are interactive, sensing and reacting to the people around them. Knep has had solo shows at the New Britain Museum of American Art, the University of Massachusetts, Lowell and Arizona State University and has been part of group shows at the Milwaukee Art Museum, Laval Virtual (France), MobileArt (Sweden) and the Insa Art Center (Korea), among others. His works have won awards from Arts Electronica, Americans for the Arts, AICA/New England and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. In 2005 Knep became the first artist-in-residence at Harvard Medical School in a program co-sponsored by Harvard's Office for the Arts. Knep lives and works in Boston and is represented by Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, NY and Judi Rotenberg Gallery, Boston.

5:00PM - 7:00PM

February 10–March 3
Anderson Auditorium + Grossman Gallery

The largest annual exhibition of student work, celebrating artists who are on the threshold of their creative futures. Features works by 2010–11 award recipients alongside pieces selected by an independent jury from approximately 200 entries. Artist Talk: Feb 14, 12:30–2 pm 

All Day

February 23–March 3, 2011
Mission Hill Building, 130 St. Alphonsus St., Boston

All Day

February 23–March 3, 2011
Mission Hill Building, 130 St. Alphonsus St., Boston

All Day

February 10–March 3
Anderson Auditorium + Grossman Gallery

The largest annual exhibition of student work, celebrating artists who are on the threshold of their creative futures. Features works by 2010–11 award recipients alongside pieces selected by an independent jury from approximately 200 entries.

Artist Talk: Feb 14, 12:30–2 pm

All Day

February 10–March 3
Anderson Auditorium + Grossman Gallery

The largest annual exhibition of student work, celebrating artists who are on the threshold of their creative futures. Features works by 2010–11 award recipients alongside pieces selected by an independent jury from approximately 200 entries.

Artist Talk: Feb 14, 12:30–2 pm

All Day

February 10–March 3
Anderson Auditorium + Grossman Gallery

The largest annual exhibition of student work, celebrating artists who are on the threshold of their creative futures. Features works by 2010–11 award recipients alongside pieces selected by an independent jury from approximately 200 entries.

Artist Talk: Feb 14, 12:30–2 pm

12:30PM - 2:00PM

Remis Auditorium, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Admission is free and open to the public. Note: attendees must obtain free tickets from a kiosk at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston to gain admittance.

Part of the Professional Practices for Visual Artists lecture series, funded by the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation.

Allan deSouza is assistant professor in the New Genres department at San Francisco Art Institute. His photographic and sculptural works examine issues of architecture, the body, dislocation, landscape, memory and vision. In images of fabricated miniature landscapes and public, architectural spaces, deSouza constructs fictional narratives that examine the role of memory and history in the formation of racial, sexual, and colonial identities. In "The Lost Pictures," he built a scale model of his childhood home in Kenya from memory, burned the exterior, and gradually covered the remains in layers of wax and detritus-hair, dust, scraps and bodily fluids. Over time, he carved into these accretions, excavating the house, and exposing surfaces and accumulated materials. deSouza has exhibited at venues ranging from the Whitney Museum, NY; Susanne Vielmetter, LA; the Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon; the Biennial of the Canaries, and the Pompidou Centre, Paris. He is represented by Talwar Gallery, NY. His fiction and critical writings have appeared in various journals and anthologies.

12:30PM - 1:30PM

Anderson Auditorium + Grossman Gallery

Artists from the "Student Annual Exhibition" discuss their work.

All Day

February 23–March 3, 2011
Mission Hill Building, 130 St. Alphonsus St., Boston

12:30PM - 2:00PM

Rescheduled from February 8.

Riley Seminar Room, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Admission is free and open to the public. Note: attendees must obtain free tickets from a kiosk at the MFA to gain admittance.

Matt Saunders is a visiting lecturer on visual and environmental studies at Harvard University. Grounded in painting, his work crosses boundaries between that medium, photography and short animated films.

All Day

February 10–March 3
Anderson Auditorium + Grossman Gallery

The largest annual exhibition of student work, celebrating artists who are on the threshold of their creative futures. Features works by 2010–11 award recipients alongside pieces selected by an independent jury from approximately 200 entries.

All Day

February 23–March 3, 2011
Mission Hill Building, 130 St. Alphonsus St., Boston

All Day

February 23–March 3, 2011
Mission Hill Building, 130 St. Alphonsus St., Boston

All Day

February 10–March 3
Anderson Auditorium + Grossman Gallery

The largest annual exhibition of student work, celebrating artists who are on the threshold of their creative futures. Features works by 2010–11 award recipients alongside pieces selected by an independent jury from approximately 200 entries.

All Day

February 23–March 3, 2011
Mission Hill Building, 130 St. Alphonsus St., Boston

12:30PM - 2:00PM

SMFA, Room B-311

All Day

February 10–March 3
Anderson Auditorium + Grossman Gallery

The largest annual exhibition of student work, celebrating artists who are on the threshold of their creative futures. Features works by 2010–11 award recipients alongside pieces selected by an independent jury from approximately 200 entries.

All Day

February 10–March 3
Anderson Auditorium + Grossman Gallery

The largest annual exhibition of student work, celebrating artists who are on the threshold of their creative futures. Features works by 2010–11 award recipients alongside pieces selected by an independent jury from approximately 200 entries.

All Day

February 23–March 3, 2011
Mission Hill Building, 130 St. Alphonsus St., Boston

All Day

February 10–March 3
Anderson Auditorium + Grossman Gallery

The largest annual exhibition of student work, celebrating artists who are on the threshold of their creative futures. Features works by 2010–11 award recipients alongside pieces selected by an independent jury from approximately 200 entries.

All Day

February 19–August 21, 2011
Courtyard Gallery, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Co-curated by students Chelsea Coon and Stephen St. Francis Decky this exhibition presents work by five Museum School artists whose highly distinct visions suggest the unlimited potential for new life forms and tap into our long history of invented beings. Sofya Belinskaya, Amanda Bonaiuto, Chelsea Coon, Stephen St. Francis Decky and Cara Mayo.

Artist Talk: March 9, 6–7 pm.

All Day

 

All Day

February 23–March 3, 2011
Mission Hill Building, 130 St. Alphonsus St., Boston

All Day

February 10–March 3
Anderson Auditorium + Grossman Gallery

The largest annual exhibition of student work, celebrating artists who are on the threshold of their creative futures. Features works by 2010–11 award recipients alongside pieces selected by an independent jury from approximately 200 entries.

All Day

February 10–March 3
Anderson Auditorium + Grossman Gallery

The largest annual exhibition of student work, celebrating artists who are on the threshold of their creative futures. Features works by 2010–11 award recipients alongside pieces selected by an independent jury from approximately 200 entries.

All Day

February 23–March 3, 2011
Mission Hill Building, 130 St. Alphonsus St., Boston

2:00PM - 3:30PM

SMFA Room B311

Expanding Space: Andy Warhol's Sound Experiments

This lecture foregrounds Warhol's experiment in audio recording—he recorded over 4,000 audio tapes from the mid-1950s to the late 1980s—and argues that his work in sound serves as template for his innovations across photography, film, video, and television. His various formal artistic strategies relating to categories such as duration, transference across media, and spatialization have been largely credited to his film work. What has previously been unappreciated, however, is the extent to which his reconceptualization of these categories began with his early work in tape recording. The model of the 24-hour movie (initial articulations of this model include SLEEP /EAT /KISS [1963-64]), I will argue, was born out of the aesthetic structure of his early tape recording experiments. Likewise Warhol's early sound films, such as HARLOT(1964), MORE MILK YVETTE (1966), and SCREEN TEST #1 (1965) demonstrate agility with speech, noise, and silence that had already been tested in hours and hours of tape-recorded experience.

All Day

February 10–March 3
Anderson Auditorium + Grossman Gallery

The largest annual exhibition of student work, celebrating artists who are on the threshold of their creative futures. Features works by 2010–11 award recipients alongside pieces selected by an independent jury from approximately 200 entries.

All Day

February 23–March 3, 2011
Mission Hill Building, 130 St. Alphonsus St., Boston

All Day

 

All Day

February 10–March 3
Anderson Auditorium + Grossman Gallery

The largest annual exhibition of student work, celebrating artists who are on the threshold of their creative futures. Features works by 2010–11 award recipients alongside pieces selected by an independent jury from approximately 200 entries.

All Day

February 23–March 3, 2011
Mission Hill Building, 130 St. Alphonsus St., Boston

All Day

Drop academic and art history courses
Select Pass/Fair option

All Day

February 23–March 3, 2011
Mission Hill Building, 130 St. Alphonsus St., Boston

6:00PM - 9:00PM

Mission Hill building
6–9 pm

Join us February 25 + 26 for the first annual SMFA Grad Open Studios. This exciting student-initiated event will include a rotating performance schedule, projected video works and individual solo exhibitions within studio spaces.

We believe that SMFA artists bring an innovative perspective to the Boston art scene, and want to engage with our peers, community and professional colleagues. Come experience new art, fresh faces and thought provoking exchanges with the graduate students of SMFA.

All Day

February 10–March 3
Anderson Auditorium + Grossman Gallery

The largest annual exhibition of student work, celebrating artists who are on the threshold of their creative futures. Features works by 2010–11 award recipients alongside pieces selected by an independent jury from approximately 200 entries.

All Day

Faculty and staff development day, all SMFA faculty and staff required to attend.

All Day

February 10–March 3
Anderson Auditorium + Grossman Gallery

The largest annual exhibition of student work, celebrating artists who are on the threshold of their creative futures. Features works by 2010–11 award recipients alongside pieces selected by an independent jury from approximately 200 entries.

6:00PM - 9:00PM

Mission Hill building
6–9 pm

Join us February 25 + 26 for the first annual SMFA Grad Open Studios. This exciting student-initiated event will include a rotating performance schedule, projected video works and individual solo exhibitions within studio spaces.

We believe that SMFA artists bring an innovative perspective to the Boston art scene, and want to engage with our peers, community and professional colleagues. Come experience new art, fresh faces and thought provoking exchanges with the graduate students of SMFA.

All Day

February 23–March 3, 2011
Mission Hill Building, 130 St. Alphonsus St., Boston

12:30PM - 2:00PM

Remis Auditorium, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Admission is free and open to the public. Note: attendees must obtain free tickets from a kiosk at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston to gain admittance.

Part of the Professional Practices for Visiting Artists lecture series, funded by the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation.

Cara Starke is assistant curator in the department of media and performance art at The Museum of Modern Art. Ms. Starke recently co-organized "Projects 93: Dinh Q. Lê (2010) and William Kentridge: Five Themes" (2010). She has collaborated on numerous other exhibitions including "Pipilotti Rist: Pour Your Body Out (7354 Cubic Meters)" (2008), "Take your time: Olafur Eliasson" (2008), "Geometry of Motion 1920s/1970s" (2008), "Doug Aitken: sleepwalkers" (2007), "RAW-WAR" (2007), "Abbas Kiarostami: Image Maker" (2007), "Eija-Liisa Ahtila's The Wind" (2006), and "Douglas Gordon: Timeline" (2006). She is currently co-organizing "Francis Alÿs: A Story of Deception," which will open at the Museum of Modern Art in spring 2011. Ms. Starke received her MA in Art History from the Williams College in 2005 and her BA from Cornell University in 2001.

All Day

February 10–March 3
Anderson Auditorium + Grossman Gallery

The largest annual exhibition of student work, celebrating artists who are on the threshold of their creative futures. Features works by 2010–11 award recipients alongside pieces selected by an independent jury from approximately 200 entries.

12:30PM - 2:00PM

Riley Seminar Room, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Admission is free and open to the public. Note: attendees must obtain free tickets from a kiosk at the MFA to gain admittance.

Daniel Dove's recent paintings depict structures in states of transition, either half-ruined or partially reconstructed. The subjects of Dove's pictures range from suburban landscape detritus to charged contemporary artifacts (such as reconstructed bombed airplane fuselages), meticulously re-built to understand or reinvent their original trauma. In this rebuilding, Dove's objects reveal a longing for completeness that can never be restored, much the way that his highly composed canvases offer distilled, ordered fictions based on chaotic and often dangerous real-world events.

All Day

February 10–March 3
Anderson Auditorium + Grossman Gallery

The largest annual exhibition of student work, celebrating artists who are on the threshold of their creative futures. Features works by 2010–11 award recipients alongside pieces selected by an independent jury from approximately 200 entries.

All Day

February 23–March 3, 2011
Mission Hill Building, 130 St. Alphonsus St., Boston

6:00PM - 8:00PM

Anderson Auditorium, 6 pm

Student composers from Berklee College of Music (Julie Hill, Marco Scorsolini, Karien de Waal), Boston Conservatory (Joseph Colombo, William Mandeville) and New England Conservatory (Katherine Balch, Andrew Watts, Nell Cohen) have teamed up to produce Boston's first Boston Composers Collective Concert. Set against the backdrop of SMFA's "Student Annual Exhibition," the concert features nine world premieres of new classical music in a variety of instrumentation including pieces for string quartet, woodwind duo and voice.

The Boston Composers Collective is a society of young composers, whose aim is to expose the public to new music in innovative ways, presenting music in conjunction with other artistic media, fostering collaboration and performance opportunities between student composers and other young artists in the Boston area.

All Day

February 23–March 3, 2011
Mission Hill Building, 130 St. Alphonsus St., Boston

All Day

February 10–March 3
Anderson Auditorium + Grossman Gallery

The largest annual exhibition of student work, celebrating artists who are on the threshold of their creative futures. Features works by 2010–11 award recipients alongside pieces selected by an independent jury from approximately 200 entries.

All Day

February 10–March 3
Anderson Auditorium + Grossman Gallery

The largest annual exhibition of student work, celebrating artists who are on the threshold of their creative futures. Features works by 2010–11 award recipients alongside pieces selected by an independent jury from approximately 200 entries.

All Day

 

All Day

February 23–March 3, 2011
Mission Hill Building, 130 St. Alphonsus St., Boston

6:00PM - 9:00PM

March 3–19, 2011
Lufthansa Studios
29 Sturtevant Street, Boston, MA 02122
www.lufthansastudios.wordpress.com

Saturdays 9 am–5 pm and by appointment at lufthansastudios@gmail.com

Opening Reception: Thursday, March 3, 6–9 pm
Artist Talks: Friday, March 18, 6 pm–8 pm


Daniel Cevallos, Kirk Amaral Snow, John C. Gonzalez, Garett Yahn

Showcasing the work of four graduating students from the Tufts University/School of the Museum of Fine Arts combined Master of Fine Arts program, the resulting exhibition reflects three years of interdisciplinary exploration including sculpture, performance, photography and painting. These works exist in dialogue with each other, while also reflecting the individual investigations of each artist.

Daniel Cevallos' (b. 1982, Quito, Ecuador) "Check Room" makes use of different visual vocabularies. The space is mainly conceived as a sculpture, but is activated by gestures, allowing an atmosphere for a form of cultural negotiation. The viewer's possessions are absorbed by the piece; it takes the objects, reactivating them as figures of repetitive aimless action. Evoking an eclectic examination of the absurdity of being in the world, the work suggests a strong relationship between the political being and the ontological ambiguity of the human condition. "Check Room" is a transplantation; it is a gesture that has its value in the present as an action, yet the act of transplanting is inherently done with the expectation of future growth. It is a political confrontation with death.

Kirk Amaral Snow (b. 1980, Providence, RI) will be presenting sculptural and performative works concerned with the study of artifacts of concealment. Surfaces, containers, objects, and other signs are emptied of portions of meaning; contingent objects without a present subject are treated as the remnants of the performance of such acts. Narratives are implied but fragmented; objects and situations are encountered in medias res. Emphasizing the concepts of façade and surface, these gestures draw focus to their nature as representations. They are used in the construction of a "lie" abandoning that which is being concealed.

John C. Gonzalez (b. 1980, Providence, RI) is exhibiting a collection of paintings purchased from an oil painting manufacturing company in Dafen, China. Assuming the various roles of client, artist, collector, and curator, he presents paintings made in response to his request that each artisan hand-paint a portrait of him or herself. This self-reflective task was answered with the production of 52 oil paintings, which contrast the anonymity of the individuals depicted within them against the Western construction of an aesthetic concerned with hyper-individuality that places value on individual autonomy.

Garett Yahn (b. 1981, La Crosse, WI) continues an ongoing series of performances made in collaboration with his mother and father. The body of work is based on an examination of the personal, professional, and artistic territory he shares with his parents. The performances encourage discussion about the boundaries of artistic practice and the nature of cultural production outside of cosmopolitan city centers. Also exhibited is a thematically related book entitled "Real Estate Opportunities, Fields Corner" featuring images of available commercial real estate in the Fields Corner Neighborhood of Dorchester. The book refers to the exhibition space it occupies and frames Lufthansa Studios as an art project in itself.



Lufthansa Studios is an artist studio/gallery that fuses an artists' workspace with an exhibition venue, serving as a platform for investigation in the visual arts and cultural production in the Boston area. We are accessible from public transit by the Red Line (Fields Corner) and the #19 Bus (Fields Corner Station). Street parking is also available on Sturtevant Street.