Courtyard Gallery, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

On view February 6–July 11, "Students Curate Students: Aperture into the Ordinary" presents a wide range of photography by nine Museum School students. Selected from curatorial proposals submitted by students, this exhibition is entirely comprised of recent work curated by MFA candidate Nancy Ellen Jones and BFA candidate Gabrielle Toman.

Saturday, February 6–Tuesday, July 27, 2010

MFA Hours: Saturday–Tuesday, 10 am–4:45 pm and Wednesday–Friday, 10 am–9:45 pm.

Riley Seminar Room
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Kurt Kauper uses painterly realism to underline the artificiality of the images he constructs. From his gorgeously clothed, fictional Divas - women who are fictions and exist only within the work, to his images of naked Cary Grant lounging around a beach house, to his heroic images of nude hockey players, Kauper's work toys with our perceptions of reality. By meticulously heightening painting's realism, Kauper's work weirdly and delightfully veers unexpectedly into surrealism. Kurt lives and works in New York.

Laconia Gallery
433 Harrison Avenue
Boston, MA

Mary Ellen Strom's advanced video installation class show at the Laconia Gallery. The show opens at 6 pm on Tuesday, March 16 and closes on March 28.

Gallery hours: 12 pm–4 pm

Atrium and BAG Galleries

On view through March 18, this marvelous annual show, organized by the Photo faculty, features work by dozens of student artists currently exploring the varied and expressive medium.

Project Space

On view through March 18, "Water/Worlds: Selections from Heidi Whitman's Mapping & Water-based Media Classes," showcases the fantastic work of Heidi's recent students, including work in watercolor, gouache, ink, pencil, collage and several other media, intriguing maps and one incredible book.