10:00AM - 6:00PM

Weems Atrium, SMFA

Collaborative exhibition between students at SMFA and the Boston Architectural College. Closing Reception: February 12, 5–7 pm.

10:00AM - 6:00PM

 Project Space + BAG Gallery, SMFA

"Top Drawer: Metals Area Exhibition." Reception: February 6, 5:30–7:30 pm.

12:00PM - 7:00PM

Wednesday, January 30–Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Barbara and Steven Grossman Gallery

Organized in the form of a continued dialogue and culminating with the production of a multimedia publication, "Histories of Now: A Space for Dialogue, Art and Activism" transforms the gallery into a site of international and local exchanges focusing on current events in Egypt, and using these events as a means of discussing a multiplicity of contemporary social movements.

12:30PM - 2:00PM

Alfond Auditorium MFA, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Free tickets may be obtained from MFA ticket desks and kiosks.

Losier was born in France in 1972, and lives in New York City where she is a filmmaker and curator at the French Institute Alliance Francaise. She has made a number of film portraits on avant-garde directors, musicians and composers such as Mike and George Kuchar, Guy Maddin, Richard Foreman, Tony Conrad and Genesis P-Orridge. Whimsical, poetic, dreamlike and unconventional, her films explore the life and work of these artists. Her newest project and first feature film, The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye, is a portrait of pioneering musician-artist Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (of Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV) and his/her partner Lady Jaye. The film premiered at the FORUM at the Berlin Film Festival in 2011 and won two awards: the Caligary Award and the Teddy. This feature will be screened as part of her lecture in February 5.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Wednesday, January 30–Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Barbara and Steven Grossman Gallery

Organized in the form of a continued dialogue and culminating with the production of a multimedia publication, "Histories of Now: A Space for Dialogue, Art and Activism" transforms the gallery into a site of international and local exchanges focusing on current events in Egypt, and using these events as a means of discussing a multiplicity of contemporary social movements.

12:15PM - 1:45PM

Room B209, SMFA

Lynn Lu is a visual artist from Singapore. She received her BFA from Carnegie Mellon University, her MFA at the San Francisco Art Institute, completed a Doctoral program at Musashino Art University in Tokyo (ABD) and earned her PhD in Fine Arts at the University of Newcastle in Australia. She lives and works in London where she is an Associate Lecturer at Southampton Solent University. Lu exhibits, performs and lectures extensively throughout Asia, Oceania, Europe and the Americas. Recent venues include the Singapore Art Museum (2012), Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), Singapore (2011), Tate Modern (2010) and 798 Art Zone, Beijing (2009). Lu looks at the connection between experiential knowledge and the innate human capacity for empathy in relation to a genre of performance art she calls "gutty." This gutty form of performance relies heavily on empathy to create meaning that is not merely conceptual but also affective and visceral. Find our more at her website: http://www.lynnlu.info

Lu will offer a public performance on Friday, Febraury 8 at 7 pm at Mobius, 55 Norfolk St., Cambridge

10:00AM - 6:00PM

 Project Space + BAG Gallery, SMFA

"Top Drawer: Metals Area Exhibition."

12:00PM - 7:00PM

Wednesday, January 30–Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Barbara and Steven Grossman Gallery

Organized in the form of a continued dialogue and culminating with the production of a multimedia publication, "Histories of Now: A Space for Dialogue, Art and Activism" transforms the gallery into a site of international and local exchanges focusing on current events in Egypt, and using these events as a means of discussing a multiplicity of contemporary social movements.

12:30PM - 2:00PM

Alfond Auditorium MFA, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Free tickets may be obtained from MFA ticket desks and kiosks.

Steve DiBenedetto's furiously-worked, otherworldly paintings broadcast the hallucinogenic, techno-shamanist writings of Terence McKenna and the metaphysical ruminations of Arthur Young, the inventor of the famous Bell helicopter. They have absorbed early Surrealism à la Salavador Dalí and Roberto Matta, with a hint of the decalcomania of Max Ernst, while the dynamic and stark graphite lines of the drawings have an animated control. DiBenedetto has received a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award, a Rosenthal Award, and Guggenheim Fellowship Award. In 2005 he was included in a noteworthy group show at The Whitney Museum of American Art, entitled "Remote Viewing." His works are included in numerous museum collections such as the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Whitney Museum, and his paintings and drawings have been exhibited in the US and internationally. The artist lives and works in New York City.

1:00PM - 5:00PM

The William Morris Hunt Memorial Library
Horticultural Hall, 2nd Floor
300 Massachusetts Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
617-369-3385
Hours: Monday–Friday, 1–5 pm, except major holiday

The MFA's William Morris Hunt Memorial Library has collaborated with SMFA for 14 exhibitions of student work. On view February 11–April 19, 2013, the current exhibition features artists' book produced with print-on-demand technology.

Curated by SMFA faculty members Hillary Binda and Chantal Zakari, it features work by: Avery Bazemore, Rachel Bernardini, Haley A. Bishop, Paul Butler, Heisue Chung, Crystal Fenner, Geoffrey Hewer-Candee, Kristen Hoops, Ximena Izquierdo, Kate Kincaid, Sarah Kroll, Phyllis Labanowski, Elçin Marasli, Kelly McDermott, Elizabeth Noftle, Jessica Thistlewaite, Rebecca Volynsky and Ben Wu.

12:30PM - 2:00PM

Alfond Auditorium MFA, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Free tickets may be obtained from MFA ticket desks and kiosks.

David Brooks explores the transformation of natural and urban environments through large-scale sculptures, installations, and material photographs. His work provides illustrations of ongoing ecological catastrophes. Brooks was born in 1975 in Indiana, USA. After studying at Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Germany, he graduated from The Cooper Union in New York with a BFA and continued on to Columbia University, receiving his MFA. Brooks work has been exhibited in several galleries in New York City including the Museum of Modern Art PS1, throughout the USA, and internationally.

12:30PM - 2:00PM

Room B-311, SMFA

In his new book of photographs, simply titled A, Gregory Halpern leads us on a ramble through the brilliant and ruined streets of the United States Rust Belt. The cast of characters, both human and animal, are portrayed with compassion and respect by this native son of Buffalo (now professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology). The cities he is drawn to—Baltimore, Cincinnati, Omaha, Detroit—share similar histories with his hometown, and in this post-apocalyptic springtime all forms of life emerge and run riot. On the heels of Halpern's two previous books, Harvard Works Because We Do (a portrait of Harvard University through the eyes of the school's service employees) and Omaha Sketchbook (a lyrical artist's book portrait of the titular city), A continues the photographer's investigations of locations and persons that fly under the radar. The book is a finalist for the International Photobook Award Kassel, and will be featured in The Photobook: A History, Volume 3, by Martin Parr and Gerry Badger. Halpern holds a BA in History and Literature from Harvard University and an MFA from California College of the Arts. Halpern is also the recipient of the Aaron Siskind Award.

12:00PM - 6:00PM

Howard Art Project, 1486 Dorchester Ave, Dorchester
Gallery hours: Saturday, 12–6pm or by appointment

Joe Joe Orangias' "Lucky Strike" was inspired by how architecture and design choreograph the body and different social groups. Orangias salvaged discarded materials from the former Lucky Strike candlepin bowling alley in Dorchester, MA and repurposed the objects and materials into an installation with a variety of interactive components, creating an experience emphasizing alternative frameworks of orientation and proximity.

http://howardartproject.wordpress.com/

10:00AM - 6:00PM

BAG Gallery, SMFA

12:30PM - 2:00PM

Remis Auditorium, Museum of Fien Arts, Boston
Free tickets may be obtained from MFA ticket desks and kiosks.

With a sense of place and historical research, Kevin Jerome Everson films combine scripted and documentary moments with rich elements of formalism. The subject matter is often gestures or tasks in the lives of working class African Americans. Instead of standard realism he favors a strategy that abstracts everyday actions and statements into theatrical gestures, in which real people perform fictional scenarios based on their own lives and historical observations intermesh with contemporary narratives. The films suggest the relentlessness of everyday life—along with its beauty. Everson was born and raised in Mansfield, Ohio. He is currently a Professor of Art at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville. Among other recognitions, his feature film Quality Control (2011) was included in the 2012 Whitney Biennial, and the short-form film Ten Five in the Grass was awarded the EURO prize at the 2012 Oberhausen Short Film Festival.

10:00AM - 6:00PM

Weems Atrium + Project Space, SMFA

12:15PM - 1:45PM

Room B209, SMFA

Adina Bar-On`s work holds a discourse about conflicts of identity and conflicting identifications. Bar-On has been an active performer since 1973 when she started as a student at the Bezalel Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Jerusalem. Over the years she has presented her work in Israel`s major art museums and galleries. Making it her business to emphasize her political and social stands, she has regularly performed at social and political events. In recent years, she has felt a growing urgency to channel her creative talent towards educational initiatives as well. Their purpose has been to promote another way of discussing differences. The workshop Social and Cultural Manifestations in Art has been an alibi to organize workshops for Polish, Palestinian and Israeli art students. In 2001 she was awarded a major prize for her contribution to Israeli art by the American Israel Cultural Foundation, and a biographical book written by Idit Porat, Adina Bar-On, Performance Artist, was published.

Bar-On will offer a public performance on Friday, February 22 at 7 pm at Mobius, 55 Norfolk St., Cambridge.

6:00PM - 7:30PM

Room 112, SMFA, Mission Hill Building, 160 Saint Alphonsus St.

Young Chung is an artist, independent curator and exhibition coordinator at Commonwealth & Council, an artist-run space situated in Koreatown, Los Angeles. Commonwealth & Council is an intergenerational community of artists extending their multiple realities through the shared experience of art. Chung received his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and BA from University of California, Irvine. Chung has exhibited at DoBaeBacSa, Seoul, Korea; POST, Los Angeles; the Sandra Lee Gallery; San Francisco, Makii Masaru Fine Arts, Tokyo, Japan; A/P/A Gallery, NYU, New York, NY;Three Colts Gallery, London, United Kingdom, Gwangju Biennale, Project 2, Gwangju, Korea; Korean American Museum, Los Angeles, CA; El Segundo Festival de Diversidad Sexual, Mexico City, Mexico; The Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies, CA; Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA; and the upcoming Me Love You Long Time exhibition at the Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, MA, 2013.

12:30PM - 2:00PM

Alfond Auditorium MFA, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Free tickets may be obtained from MFA ticket desks and kiosks.

Interracial desire, same-sex love, and sexual bigotry are recurrent themes in Nayland Blake's work. His art takes the form of drawing, sculpture, performance, and video. Blake was born in New York in 1960. He has participated in the 1991 Whitney Biennial and the 1993 Venice Biennale. Additionally, the Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College presented a survey of his performance-based works in 2003. Blake chairs the International Photography Center-Bard MFA program. He currently lives and works in Brooklyn.

12:30PM - 2:00PM

SMFA, B311

Andrea Geyer uses both fiction and documentary strategies in her image and text based works that are temporal translations of specific social and political situations. They address the ongoing re-adjustment of cultural meanings (such as gender and identity) and social memories. Shows include: 29th Sao Paulo Biennale, Whitney Museum of American Art / New York, RedCat / Los Angeles, Tate Modern / London, documenta12 / Kassel and Galerie Thomas Zander / Cologne.