During the season of lights four Boston-based, SMFA artists do something unusual—they kill them. "Kill the Lights" is a one night exhibition, December 13, 6–9 pm, at the Howard Art Project. The event explores light as portal into and out of memory. Works including photography and sculpture to text and live performance will illuminate the way light reveals presence and when shut out, recalls absence. The exhibition is free and open to the public. 

Participating artists

Ashley Wood grew up in Charleston, SC. She earned her BFA from Clemson University in 2011 and is currently in her thesis year of the MFA program at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Her work incorporates photography, text and sculpture, discussing anxiety and memory as it relates to childhood, religion and the domestic space.

Valeska Freire Marulanda is a Venezuelan interdisciplinary artist who works primarily in video and performance. Her work explores the progression of time through stillness and presence. She is currently studying methods of desexualizing the female naked body in live performance art.

Molly Segal is a painter from Oakland, CA. Her work uses personal memory to investigate the psychological ambiguities of interactions of young women. She often paints from video stills of performative "re-stagings" of past events.

Courtney McClellan is an interdisciplinary artist from Greensboro, NC. Her work attempts to manipulate the space-time relationship through writing, sculpture and performance. She creates interventions small and large that demand presence from a viewer.

"Kill the Lights"
Thursday, December 13, 6–9 pm
The Howard Art Project
1486 Dorchester Ave
Dorchester, MA 02122