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.

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

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 - 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.

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

 

9:00AM - 5:00PM

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

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.

12:30PM - 2:00PM

Alfond Auditorium, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Admission is free and open to the public. Tickets are available at any MFA ticket desk on a first-come, first-serve basis.

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

Marlene McCarty's practice involves drawing, politics, activism and working commercially. She worked with Tibor Kalman at the famed multidisciplinary design firm M&Co. and also at the Museum of Modern Art. In the late 1980s McCarty was a member of Gran Fury, the AIDS activist collective. In 1989, she founded Bureau, a company whose mandate was to produce art, film titles, political work and brand identities. Under the auspices of Bureau, McCarty designed film titles for "Far from Heaven," "Hedwig and the Angry Inch," "American Psycho," "Velvet Goldmine," and "The Ice Storm" among many others. Included in her roster of achievements is a Pollack-Krasner Foundation Grant (2007) and a Guggenheim Foundation Grant (2002-2003).

All Day

 

6:00PM - 7:00PM

MFA Courtyard Gallery

Museum School students Sofya Belinskaya, Amanda Bonaiuto, Chelsea Coon, Stephen St. Francis Decky and Cara Mayo will discuss their work in the "Students Curate Students: Imaginary Active."

12:30PM - 2:30PM

SMFA Room B-311

9:00AM - 5:00PM

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

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.

12:30PM - 2:00PM

Mission Hill Building, 160 St. Alphonsus St. Room C113

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

Melissa Levin is currently director in Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's artist residencies department. She received her BA with honors in Visual Art and Art History from Barnard College. Previously, she worked at Artforum International magazine, Andrea Rosen Gallery, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. She has participated in panels at Dumbo Arts Center, Lower East Side Print Shop, Center for Book Arts, and Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts; and lectured at Parsons, the New School for Design and the Cleveland Institute of Art. Melissa has also curated exhibitions at Cuchifritos Gallery, ISE Cultural Foundation, Andrea Rosen Gallery, LMCC and Taylor De Cordoba Gallery.

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.

"Nicole Cherubini presents new sculptures that reference the history of clay as a medium and feature forms made of terracotta, earthenware, and porcelain and surfaces arrived at through various hand-built, thrown and molded processes. New forms are accompanied and supported by materials such as wood, MDF, 2x3s, digital photographs, metal, glaze, enamel, and drawing materials...Cherubini's work brings antiquated notions of ceramics into a contemporary sculptural discourse as they invoke ideas rooted in conceptual art from the 1970s." -Lisa Melandri, curator, Santa Monica Museum of Art

All Day

 

9:00AM - 5:00PM

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

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.

All Day

 

All Day

 

All Day

 

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.

"Her abstract landscapes, bizarre scenes, and images of borderline-perverse human interactions — which tap into the viewer's own thoughts, dreams, or fantasies — are devised with bold, rich colors and tactile textures, using domestic materials like wallpaper and unique media like Conté crayons and Sumi ink." -Gio Marconi, Modern Painters

All Day

March 30–April 30, 2011
Anderson Auditorium

Since 1899, this award program has supported post-graduate work and travel for select SMFA artists. Exhibition showcases work by the 2009 recipients: Nathan Boyer, David D'Agostino, Ariel Kotker and Kate Sinnott, featuring installations and videos.

Opening reception, March 30, 5–7 pm
Artists' Talks, March 31, 12:30 + April 20, 12:30.

All Day

March 30–April 30, 2011

A multimedia exhibition of work by three artists completing the Fifth Year Certificate program: Lynda Michaud Cutrell, Senem Karvak and David Pappas.

Opening Reception, March 30, 5–7 pm
Artists' Talk, April 13, 12:30–2 pm

All Day

March 30–April 30, 2011
Grossman Gallery

A multimedia exhibition of work by three artists completing the Fifth Year Certificate program: Lynda Michaud Cutrell, Senem Karvak and David Pappas.

Artist Talk, April 13, 12:30–2 pm.

All Day

March 30–April 30, 2011
Anderson Auditorium

Since 1899, this award program has supported post-graduate work and travel for select SMFA artists. Exhibition showcases work by the 2009 recipients: Nathan Boyer, David D'Agostino, Ariel Kotker and Kate Sinnott, featuring installations and videos.

Artists' Talks, March 31, 12:30 + April 20, 12:30.

12:30PM - 2:00PM

Alfond Auditorium, Museum of Fine Arts
Free tickets are available at any MFA ticket desk on a first-come, first-serve basis.