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.

10:00AM - 6:00PM

BAG Gallery, SMFA

10:00AM - 6:00PM

Weems Atrium + Project Space, SMFA

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.

12:00PM - 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 - 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.

1:00PM - 6:00PM

Fourth Wall Project Art Space, 132 Brookline Ave, Boston
Gallery hours: Wednesday–Friday, 1–6 pm; Sunday, 1–5 pm

Cities are in a constant state of flux, experiencing periods of building and destruction. Alexander Squier's "What's to Come..." is a response to the visible transformations occurring within the area known now as the Fenway Triangle, with a specific focus on 132 Brookline Avenue. He addresses the ongoing demolition and construction around the building, as well as the building's own limited lifespan and potential erasure from the site. Opening reception: March 9, 6–9 pm.

12:30PM - 2:00PM

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

Known for virtuoso technique and a fascination with media images,Julia Jacquette makes paintings about wish fulfillment in a consumerist society. Images mined from the internet, TV programs, movies, on the sides of buses, on the walls of subway stations, and magazine ads are distilled into paintings that are seductive yet tinged with a flavor of anxiety in the manufactured envy they evoke. A New York City-based artist, Jacquette's work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally, and is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, The Museum of Fine Arts Boston, and The RISD Museum among other institutions. Her work was included PS1's "Greater New York" exhibition, and was the subject of a retrospective at the Tang Museum in Saratoga Springs. The recipient of a Pollack-Krasner grant, her most recent solo exhibition, "Water, Liquor, Hair," was at Anna Kustera Gallery in New York.

6:00PM - 9:00PM

Mission Hill building, SMFA

SMFA's third annual Graduate Open Studios featuring over 150 MFA and Post-Bac students. Reception 6–9 pm.

11:00AM - 5:00PM

Mission Hill building, SMFA

SMFA's third annual Graduate Open Studios featuring over 150 MFA and Post-Bac students.

2:00PM - 6:00PM

Fourth Wall Project Art Space, 132 Brookline Ave, Boston
Gallery hours: Wednesday–Friday, 1–6 pm; Sunday, 1–5 pm

Cities are in a constant state of flux, experiencing periods of building and destruction. Alexander Squier's "What's to Come..." is a response to the visible transformations occurring within the area known now as the Fenway Triangle, with a specific focus on 132 Brookline Avenue. He addresses the ongoing demolition and construction around the building, as well as the building's own limited lifespan and potential erasure from the site. Opening reception: March 9, 6–9 pm.

http://fourthwallproject.com/flog/category/exhibitions/

6:00PM - 7:30PM

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

Amy Sadao is the Daniel W. Dietrich, II Director of the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) at the University of Pennsylvania. She was the former Executive Director of Visual AIDS in New York City, a non-profit visual arts organization dedicated to HIV prevention, AIDS awareness, and the support of artists living with AIDS. In addition to serving as Director of Visual AIDS, Sadao has had a highly visible career as a public speaker, moderator, juror, and consultant for a variety of arts organizations. She earned an M.A. in comparative ethnic studies from the University of California, Berkeley and a B.F.A. from The Cooper Union School of Art.

1:00PM - 6:00PM

Fourth Wall Project, 132 Brookline Ave, Boston
Gallery hours: Wednesday–Friday, 1–6 pm; Sunday, 1–5 pm

"Secret Acts," features four artists who turn private acts into public narrative, examining reality/fiction, ritual/restitution and past/present. Daniel Embree appropriates gestures from Mormon rituals and examines gay issues within Mormonism, including marginalization, exclusion and paradox; Monica Lynn Manoski creates fragile armor made of sugar to recall and address her struggle with an eating disorder; Courtney McClellan transgresses the limits of imagination, text and three-dimensional space through the lens of Virginia Woolf; Ashley L. Wood explores "wrongness" through the repetition and deterioration of memory within the boundaries of the photograph.

Artist talks + closing reception: March 29, 6–9 pm

1:00PM - 5:00PM

Fourth Wall Project, 132 Brookline Ave, Boston
Gallery hours: Wednesday–Friday, 1–6 pm; Sunday, 1–5 pm

"Secret Acts," features four artists who turn private acts into public narrative, examining reality/fiction, ritual/restitution and past/present. Daniel Embree appropriates gestures from Mormon rituals and examines gay issues within Mormonism, including marginalization, exclusion and paradox; Monica Lynn Manoski creates fragile armor made of sugar to recall and address her struggle with an eating disorder; Courtney McClellan transgresses the limits of imagination, text and three-dimensional space through the lens of Virginia Woolf; Ashley L. Wood explores "wrongness" through the repetition and deterioration of memory within the boundaries of the photograph.

Artist talks + closing reception: March 29, 6–9 pm

http://fourthwallproject.com/flog/category/exhibitions/

10:00AM - 6:00PM

 BAG Gallery, Project Space + Weems Atrium, SMFA

6:00PM - 7:30PM

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

Patricia Hickson has been the Emily Hall Tremaine Curator of Contemporary Art at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut since 2009. She oversees the contemporary art collection and acquisitions, organizes special exhibitions and leads the MATRIX program, a series of changing exhibitions of contemporary art. Her MATRIX projects have featured artists Ahmed Alsoudani, Claire Beckett, Shaun Gladwell, Kitty Kraus, Justin Lowe, Rashaad Newsome, Kim Schoenstadt, Deb Sokolow and Jan Tichy. Hickson previously held curatorial positions at the Des Moines Art Center, Williams College Museum of Art, San Jose Museum of Art, and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. She has organized major exhibitions with artists Sol LeWitt, Robyn O'Neil, Alec Soth, Michael McMillen, Patricia Piccinini, Enrique Chagoya, Carmen Lomas Garza, and James Welling, among others. She has served on numerous panels and juries, including the National Endowment for the Humanities, Creative Capital, and the U.S. General Services Administration's Art in Architecture Program. Hickson earned a BA in art from Bates College and a MA in art history from Williams College.

12:30PM - 2:00PM

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

Lucien Castaing-Taylor is an anthropologist and artist who works in film, video and photography. Since 2002 Castaing-Taylor has taught at Harvard University, where he is Director of the Sensory Ethnography Lab (SEL). SEL supports innovative and immersive media practices to explore the affective fabric of human and animal existence and the aesthetics and ontology of the natural world. His works include In and Out of Africa (1992), Sweetgrass (2009), an unsentimental exploration of sheep-farming in Montana, and, most recently, Leviathan (2012), an experimental documentary on New Bedford fisherman made with Véréna Paravel. His co-filmmaker Véréna Paravel is a French anthropologist whose non-fiction feature Foreign Parts was shown widely. Her work explores evanescent forms of intimacy, mediation and space. Since 2009, she has been a Fellow at the Film Study Center and a postdoctoral associate of the SEL. She is currently a Radcliffe Fellow.

12:30PM - 2:00PM

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

Bill Arning is the director of the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. After arriving in Texas in 2009, Arning organized solo exhibitions of Marc Swanson, Matthew Day Jackson and the late Stan VanDerBeek. Jackson and VanDerBeek were jointly organized with the MIT List Visual Arts Center where Arning was exhibitions curator from 2000-2009. At MIT he organized shows of AA Bronson, Cerith Wyn Evans and a retrospective of the Kate Ericson and Mel Ziegler. From 1985 to 1996 Arning was director of White Columns in New York City where he organized groundbreaking first solo shows for many of the best known artists of his generation, including John Currin, Marilyn Minter, Andres Serrano, Richard Phillips, Cady Noland and Jim Hodges, among many others. Arning has written on art for journals such as Artforum, Art in America, and Parkett and multitudes of international museum publications.

10:00AM - 6:00PM

Mission Hill building Gallery, SMFA, 160 St. Alphonsus Street, Boston
Gallery hours: 10 am–6 pm

In "Retinal Systems" David Flicker Brown focuses on several different systematic techniques for capturing and compressing large amounts of photographic data. These amalgamations explore the Darwinian nature of both organic and manufactured forms.

March 28–April 12, 2013
Reception: March 29, 5:30 pm

12:30PM - 2:00PM

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

The visual experience of Thomas Eggerer's paintings is arresting -- the viewer cannot reconcile the exact location of figure and ground, architecture or brushstroke. All the pentimenti are visible, the construction of the architecture is not detailed; rather, the structure of the image exists as a space of possibility. Each painting follows a different approach to color as an organizing principle. Within this world, Eggerer depicts figures in uneasy groups or collectives. Narrative is first suggested and then interrupted. Originally from Germany, Eggerer studied painting at the Art Academy in Munich. After moving to New York in the 1990s, he joined Group Material, an artist's collective. He has had numerous group and solo shows, both in the US and internationally; he is represented by Petzel Gallery in New York, Maureen Paley in London, and Richard Telles in Los Angeles.