"Secret Acts," features four artists who turn private acts into public narrative, examining reality/fiction, ritual/restitution and past/present. Daniel Embree appropriates gestures from Mormon rituals and examines gay issues within Mormonism, including marginalization, exclusion and paradox; Monica Lynn Manoski creates fragile armor made of sugar to recall and address her struggle with an eating disorder; Courtney McClellan transgresses the limits of imagination, text and three-dimensional space through the lens of Virginia Woolf; Ashley L. Wood explores "wrongness" through the repetition and deterioration of memory within the boundaries of the photograph.

The joint Master of Fine Arts degree program of SMFA and Tufts University culminates with a final thesis exhibition. Students create an in-depth presentation of their artistic process and their body of work developed during the two-year program. SMFA/Tufts thesis exhibitions will take place throughout the spring and summer at galleries around Boston. Admission to exhibitions and related events is free and open to the public. Visit www.smfa.edu/mfa-thesis for artist profiles and more information.

"Secret Acts"
March 20–29, 2013
Artist talks + closing reception: March 29, 6–9 pm

Fourth Wall Project, 132 Brookline Ave, Boston