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.
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.
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
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
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
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
