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