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

10:00AM - 6:00PM

 BAG Gallery, Project Space + Weems Atrium, 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.

12:30PM - 2:00PM

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

Lead Pencil Studio is an interdisciplinary studio based in Seattle, who overlaps architecture and site-specific art. Their output is informed by dedication to independent research of structural typologies and the visual arts. Lead Pencil Studio aims to surprise and alter perceptions with the studio work that results from their research. Their work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at places such as the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Center on Contemporary Art in Seattle, and the American Academy in Rome. Founders Annie Han and Daniel Mihalyo will be representing the studio, both of who studied architecture at the University of Oregon.

All Day

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

Laura Fischman's paintings honor the everyday and the overlooked; the works in "Neither here no there" reference a sense of yearning for something that is both unknowable and unnamed; in Hope/Fear Jasmine Higbee layers film footage to create a video installation that challenges existing conversations about environmentalism; inspired by mythology, fairy tales and Renaissance painting, Laura Beth Reese's photographs are depictions of a world that exists somewhere between reality and non-reality.

April 3–12, 2013
Reception + Artist Talks: April 6, 5–8 pm

All Day

Anthony Greaney Gallery, 460 Harrison Ave, Boston 
Gallery hours by appointment

Jessica Borusky's The Posture Grid! is an exploration of personal/performed/projected identity through the construction of persona. With humor and endurance, this durational performance for video unpacks advertising language to explore how products designed to "help" us instead often reinforce the pursuit of a rigid, unrealistic "ideal."

Opening April 5, 2013
Reception: April 5, 6 pm

12:00PM - 4:00PM

Laconia Lofts Gallery, 433 Harrison Avenue, Boston 
Gallery hours: Friday–Sunday, 12–4 pm

Julia Csekö's scluptures in"Aftermath" transform social symbols and objects, such as miliray fatigues, into doll-size proportions, encouraging viewers to confront tough issues without the "life-size" intimidation factor; Molly Segal's paintings in "If You Jump, I'll Jump" explore the psychological ambiguities of interactions between young women, delving into ideas about friendship, intimacy, desire, fear and recklessness.

April 5–27, 2013
Reception: April 5, 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.

Antoniadis & Stone are a collaborative team based out of Boston MA. Artists Alexi Antoniadis and Nico Stone formed in 2006 to unify their ideas surrounding a sculptural exploration of institutional architecture. They are interested in exploring the tension between an objective and perceived reality. The environment provides a source of inspiration for the team to work sculpturally while reflecting on the human conditions and the state of contemporary culture. Antoniadis & Stone have recently exhibited at the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum as well as Samson Gallery in MA.

12:30PM - 2:00PM

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

Boulet is a comic book writer who has published over 40 books in France, including the "Raghnarok" series. He began drawing for Tchô! magazine almost 15 years ago, while he was studying at the Beaux Arts of Strasbourg. In 2004 he began working on Lewis Trondheim and Joann Sfar's series "Dungeon" for Back in Style, before starting his own webcomic. Available to U.S. audiences in English, the blog receives nearly 8000 unique visitors per day. His French blog receives 50,000 visitors daily and has been the basis for seven books published by Delcourt! Boulet, whose work is largely based on improvisation, also gives performances, talks, exhibitions and much more.

11:00AM - 5:00PM

Tufts University Art Gallery @ Aidekman Arts Center, 40 Talbot Ave Medford 
Gallery hours: Tuesday–Sunday, 11am–5 pm; Thursdays until 8 pm

Ario Elami's series of mostly small-scale conceptual works, combining text and drawing, explores the event of one's death and the prospect of an afterlife; Ruohan Hu creates modern version of Hyakki Yagyo (Night Parade of One Hundred Demons), an illustrated handbook about ghosts and monsters from Japanese and Chinese folklore; Jihee Lee's paintings bare witness to the act of meditation and as objects, are a physical record of time and personal memory; in his photographic seascapes, Chien-ning Liao creates spaces that are ambiguous allowing viewers to question what they are looking at; Singha Sihakhom explores the Buddhist term for constant flux and impermanence, annica, through the lens of his personal experiences migrating from Laos and becoming an ordained Buddhist monk; Qing Song's oil paintings reflect on the challenges faced by the first generation of modern, urban, professional women in China, as well as her own identity as a young female painter.

April 11–28, 2013
Reception + Artist Talks: April 11, 5–8 pm

12:30PM - 2:00PM

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

Fred Tomaselli's complex, mind-bending paintings incorporate a dazzling array of cut-outs from magazines, medical texts and field guides, along with plant leaves, pills, and areas of paint. Encased in high-gloss resin, Tomaselli's work draws from from both popular culture and art history, and from his own interests and fascinations. The profusion of images radiate an intense optical energy, and suggest a new ecstatic reality. Tomaselli has had innumerable solo and group exhibitions in museums and galleries throughout the world, including solo shows at the Brooklyn Museum, the Aspen Art Museum, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. He is represented by James Cohan Gallery in NY and White Cube in London. His work has been featured on the international biennial circuit including Site Santa Fe, The Whitney Biennial, and the Liverpool, Berlin, and Lyon Biennials. Born in Santa Monica, CA; he currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

12:30PM - 2:00PM

Room B311, SMFA

Catharina Manchanda grew up in Germany and moved to the US in 1990 on a graduate scholarship for curatorial studies. Before becoming the Seattle Art Museum's curator of modern and contemporary art in mid-2011, she held posts at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum in St. Louis and the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio. Her past work includes organizing "Beauty and the Blonde" at the Kemper, assisting the Museum of Modern Art on a Gerhard Richter retrospective and book about his October paintings and curating the 2010 Cyprien Gaillard exhibit at the Wexner Center. Robert Storr, Dean of Yale School of Art, says of Manchanca: "She has the rare mix of qualities required of a curator charged with operating in the new international art scene: intellectual seriousness, aesthetic open-mindedness combined with a discerning critical mind, and singular skill at working with artists."

12:30PM - 2:00PM

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

Working primarily with animation and drawing, Karen Yasinsky creates work that can be mysterious and elliptical, with sound coming from a place outside the frame. The result is uncanny. Yasinsky's video installations and drawings have been shown in many venues internationally including the Mori Art Musuem, Tokyo, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art, NY, UCLA Hammer Museum and Kunst Werke, Berlin. Her animations have been screened worldwide at various venues and film festivals including Museum of Modern Art, the New York Film Festival's Views from the Avant Garde and the International Film Festival Rotterdam. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Baker Award and is a fellow of the American Academy in Berlin and the American Academy in Rome. She teaches at Johns Hopkins University in Film and Media Studies.

10:00AM - 5:00PM

Grossman Gallery, Weems Atrium and BAG Gallery, SMFA, 230 The Fenway, Boston, MA
Hours: Monday–Friday, 10 am–5 pm; Thursday 10 am–8 pm

Celebrating 2012–13 award winners and 2013 graduates as they become SMFA alumni.

April 16–May 18, 2013

10:00AM - 5:00PM

 SMFA/Mrs. E Ross Anderson Auditorium, 230 The Fenway, Boston 
Gallery hours: Monday–Friday 10 am–5 pm; Thursday 10 am–8 pm

In "Ray of Dark," Laura Harrison, Eugene Larochelle, Maia Lynch, Karmimadeebora McMillan, Tim Mearini and Ivette Salom investigate contemporary cultural norms and an array of predicaments with humor and surrealism.

April 16–May 18, 2013
Reception + Artist Talks: April 16, 5:30 pm

1:00PM - 6:00PM

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

Caroline Board's works in "seen/unavailable" are inspired by life's fleeting moments—a discarded note, a memory. By combining these moments in a painting, she enhances their abstract nature and obscures their reality; Kate Castelli's "End Page" is an intersection of books, works on paper and collections that explore poetic and formal juxtapositions in order to connect what cannot be connected; Coe Lapossy's work blurs the lines between painting and sculpture, exploring areas that can, at face value, be perceived as dark, yet the overarching themes are optimistic; Stephen St. Francis Decky works with an ever-evolving cast of shape-shifting characters in a variety of media, from acrylic paintings and sculptural installations to the photographs and films through which their stories are brought to life.

April 17–27, 2013
Reception: April 19, 5–8 pm

All Day

The William Morris Hunt Memorial Library
Horticultural Hall, 2nd Floor
300 Massachusetts Avenue

W. Van Alan Clark Jr. Library, SMFA

22 SMFA artists are showing in "Collections: Organizing and Interpreting an Environment" within sister art libraries of the MFA and SMFA. Curated by SMFA student Julie Weaver, the work in Collections explores collecting as a way of interpreting culture and the environment. It will be on view at MFA's William Morris Hunt Memorial Library April 18–May 31, 2013 and at SMFA's W. Van Alan Clark Jr. Library April 23–May 31, 2013. Opening receptions with light hors d'oeuvres and extended viewing hours will be held at each location: April 18, 2013, 5–7 pm at the SMFA Library; and April 23, 2013, 5–7 pm at the Hunt Memorial Library. See the MFA Library site for more information.

12:30PM - 2:00PM

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

Walid Raad is an artist and an Associate Professor of Art in The Cooper Union (New York, USA). Raad's works include The Atlas Group, a fifteen-year project between 1989 and 2004 about the contemporary history of Lebanon, and the ongoing projects Scratching on Things I Could Disavow and Sweet Talk: Commissions (Beirut). His books include The Truth Will Be Known When The Last Witness Is Dead, My Neck Is Thinner Than A Hair, Let's Be Honest, The Weather Helped, and Scratching on Things I Could Disavow.
Raad's works have been shown in Documenta 11 and 13 (Kassel, Germany), Kunsthalle Zurich (Zurich, Switzerland), The Whitechapel Art Gallery (London, UK), Festival d'Automne (Paris, France), Kunsten Festival des Arts (Brussels, Belgium), The Venice Biennale (Venice, Italy), The Hamburger Bahnhof (Berlin, Germany), Homeworks (Beirut, Lebanon) and numerous other museums and venues in Europe, the Middle East, and Americas. Raad is also the recipient of the Hasselblad Award (2011), a Guggenheim Fellowship (2009), the Alpert Award in Visual Arts (2007), the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize (2007), and the Camera Austria Award (2005).

10:00AM - 5:30PM

Howard Yezerski Gallery, 460 Harrison Ave, Boston, MA 02118 
Gallery hours: Tuesday–Friday, 10 am–5:30pm; Saturday 11 am–5:30 pm

In "Fill Me Up," Robert Chamberlin's vases meet viewers, ready to become a surface for the projection of their desires, waiting to be filled with the projection of our lives measuring time and events; Huaiyu Chou explores loss, memory, image and a suppressed history through miniature watercolor portraits, all based on photographs of victims of the "228 massacre" of 1947 and the white terror period in Taiwan.

April 19–30, 2013
Reception: April 19, 6–8 pm

All Day

Mission Hill building, SMFA

Year-end event for candidates in the SMFA/Tufts Master of Arts in Teaching program and their PK-12 students.

9:00AM - 2:00PM

Students who have been accepted to SMFA visit the School to:

• Choose courses
• Learn about housing
• Ask questions about finacial aid and scholarships
• Meet faculty, students and alumni
• Visit the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

5:00PM - 6:30PM

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

Steven Lam is a curator, artist, educator and is the Associate Dean at The School of Art at The Cooper Union. He has an M.F.A. from the University of California, Irvine and has taught performance and sound theory in the Art History and Theory Department at the School of Visual Arts, NYC. Lam has developed exhibitions primarily for non-profit institutions and universities, often prioritizing his experience working in such pedagogical programs. His recent curatorial projects have focused on geo-zones outside Euro-America (such as China and Hong Kong) including his involvement with the curatorial team for the Third Guangzhou Triennial. Lam was a Helena Rubinstein Curatorial Fellow at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program as well as a Lori Ledis Curatorial Fellow at Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn. Recent curatorial work and collaborations in New York include Tainted Love with critic Virginia Solomon at La MaMa Galleria, NYC; For Reasons of State at the Kitchen, NYC; and Spectral Evidence at Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; Free as Air and Water, The Crude and the Rare, and Ruptures: Forms of Public Address co-curated with Saskia Bos at The Cooper Union.