BAG Gallery, Project Space + Weems Atrium, SMFA

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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."