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

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