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All Day
- Art Education Festival
Mission Hill building, SMFA
Year-end event for candidates in the SMFA/Tufts Master of Arts in Teaching program and their PK-12 students.
5:00PM - 6:30PM
- Visiting Artist Lecture: Steven Lam
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.
12:00PM - 4:00PM
- "Aftermath"+"If You Jump, I'll Jump" – MFA Thesis Shows
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
11:00AM - 5:00PM
- MFA Thesis Show
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
10:00AM - 5:00PM
- "Ray of Dark" – MFA Thesis Show
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
- "seen/unavailable"+"End Page"+"My Weakness Is Strong"+"Théâtre Lumière" – MFA Thesis Shows
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
10:00AM - 5:30PM
- "Fill Me Up" – MFA Thesis Show
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
10:00AM - 5:00PM
- "Graduating Students and Award Recipients Exhibition"
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
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