Previous Events/Exhibitions
Linda Fitz Gibbon, MFA in Visual Arts Candidate
Transformations
Featuring Linda's "inflatable" ceramic series.
Monday, November 19 - Thursday, December 13
James Kaneko Gallery
Noelle Fiori, MFA in Visual Arts Candidate
Blue [group show]
Juried by Joseph Thompson, Director, Mass MoCA
Friday, November 9 - Thursday, January 10
Kathryn Schultz and University Place Galleries. University Place Gallery, 124 Mt. Auburn St. Cambridge MA 02138
Andrew Yang, MFA in Visual Arts Candidate
Animalier: The Animal in Contemporary Art [group show]
An exhibition of art focusing on the animal form, sponsored by the Studio Art Program at Northwestern Oklahoma State University. Curated by Brandice Guerra, Director of Studio Art at Northwestern.
Friday, November 2 - Sunday, December 2
John Chang, MFA in Visual Arts '09
Facing East: Contemporary Work from Four Chinese Artists in America [curator]
Featuring works from Bi-Ying Zhang, Zhu-Qing Jiang, Long-Bin Chen, and Wen-Hao Tien. The exhibition is seeking to raise awareness of contemporary Chinese Art. In an effort to foster and fuel discussion, dialogue and understanding, this exhibition of contemporary Chinese, Chinese American will bring together an international array of artists whose work examines issues ranging from cultural and geographical changes, to personal narratives, to questions of cultural and political and economic control.
Friday, October 19 - Saturday, November 24
Mill Fine Art Gallery
Linda Fitz Gibbon, MFA in Visual Arts Candidate
Stretching Function [group show]
Pushing the limits of functional ceramics.
Thursday, October 11 - Saturday, November 17
Tsao Gallery
Robert Gerhardt, MFA in Visual Arts '07
Life on the Border: The Karen People of Burma
The exhibition will go along with a series of films about Southeast Asia, and will coincide with the 10th International Burma Studies Conference which is hosted by Northern Illinois University from October 5-7.
Tuesday, August 28 - Saturday, November 17
University of Northern Illinois Art Museum
John Chang, MFA in Visual Arts '09
John's work was the subject of a Haiku Review by Peter Frank featured on the Huffingtonpost.com.
Mike Cirelli, MFA in Visual Arts Candidate
Mike created a video about what it is like to be over the age of 30 and still skateboarding. This video is now featured on multiple industry-leading websites, including Vans Shoes, Transworld Skateboarding, and Hellaclips.
Nancy Grace Horton, MFA in Visual Arts Candidate
Nancy is the recipient of the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts, Artists Entrepreneurial Grant, 2012. This grant supports opportunities that will increase the capacity of professional artists, and she will be using it to continue and expand on a mentorship relationship.
New Hampshire State Council on the Arts | artist's site
Jane Rainwater, MFA in Visual Arts '07
Jane recently published a book of her current work, Botanical Tyranny. The hard-bound book is now available for preview and purchase.
Jeff Brown, MFA in Visual Arts Candidate
Brown recently won one of the two awards at the 2011 In-Out Festival at Laznia CCA in Gdansk, Poland, beating out a pool of 150 other submissions.
Anthony Apesos, MFA in Visual Arts Faculty
Apesos juried the New Hampshire Institute of Art 2011 Biennial, on display at NHIA's Amherst Street Gallery and French Building Gallery through December 5. The show is a regional juried exhibition for New England artists.
Bridget Lynch, MFA in Visual Arts '11
Lynch has been named the Director of the Trustman Art Gallery at Simmons College effective July 1, 2011. The gallery presents six professional shows a year. Her focus will be primarily on contemporary women artists and shows that act as a kick-starter for the wider intellectual conversation possible within a university setting.
Robert Bern, Jill Brody, Jeff Brown, Mike Cirelli, Shea Justice Sr., Liselott Johnsson, Francesca Milliken, Dana Pasila, Betti Pettinatti-Longinotti, Dwight Smith, Diane Wiencke, Joe Wade Wilcox; all MFA in Visual Arts '12
Unfolding the Book [group show]
An Art Exhibition informed and inspired by books and works of literature. What could be more thought provoking and inspiring than what is contained in a book, printed on paper or materializing out of pixels? From best sellers and top tens to philosophical tomes and dreamy librettos, to digital downloads that fill our kobos and kindles with that next great read, to those weighty reference books that keep us wise (thank you Reference Librarians); this art exhibit is a celebration of the book.
Saturday, August 18 - Sunday, October 28
Boston Public Library
Aris Moore, MFA in Visual Arts '12
Nil and Fancy
Jack Hanley Gallery is pleased to present the first solo exhibition of portraits by Aris Moore. Most of the portraits are of women, though many include men, children, a couple or a family. With disturbingly disproportionate faces, and pleasantly detailed and delicate clothing, the people of Nil and Fancy straddle the lovely and the grotesque. Inhabiting the space between what is perceived versus what is presented, Moore's people are neither children nor adults; never entirely strong, nor vulnerable; attractive nor repulsive. She gives them an uncanny semblance of personality. In fact, while uncomfortably strange, a figure will seem even more unnervingly familiar. It is difficult not to find a peculiar likeness to someone else, be they known, or imagined. Faced with this ambiguity, the viewer becomes a participating judge of character. A couple's embrace may signify comfort to some, or control to others. A girl's smile can be questioned or taken at face value. Without revealing too much about anyone, Moore pinpoints our own attempt to fill in these gaps, though often we are left with all-too-human contradictions.
Friday, September 7 - Saturday, September 29
Jack Hanley Gallery
Judith Barry, Director of MFA in Visual Arts Program
dOCUMENTA (13)
dOCUMENTA (13) is dedicated to artistic research and forms of imagination that explore commitment, matter, things, embodiment, and active living in connection with, yet not subordinated to, theory. Judith's featured piece is a polyhedron book entitled For when all that was read was…so as not to be unknown. Bruno Latour's remark that "…matter is as it is thought by the mind" provided the genesis for this Guidebook as a modular origami form, designed to be read as it is constructed and whose purpose is to allow all the elements in the "Brain" section of dOCUMENTA (13) to be suspended within a non-hierarchical, endless space; a space with no beginning and no end, a space conceived as being 'inside time,' where perhaps, there is only space. read more
Saturday, June 9 - Sunday, September 16
Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
MFA Mentors Sam Durant, Joan Jonas, and Michael Rakowitz also participated in dOCUMENTA (13).
Andrew Yang, MFA in Visual Arts Candidate
Video included in The Worldly House at dOCUMENTA (13)
In recognition of the work and ideas of Donna Haraway, member of the dOCUMENTA (13) Honorary Advisory Committee and renowned feminist theorist, dOCUMENTA(13) presents "The Worldly House," an archive compiled by Tue Greenfort, within the exhibition part of Karlsaue Park that will give visitors the opportunity to think through Haraway's writings and teachings in the form of artists' materials, texts, books, and videos. As homage to Haraway, the space functions like a concentrated archive of the thoughts that inform the exhibition, and presents multispecies co- evolution as a key position of dOCUMENTA (13).
Linda S. Fitz Gibbon , MFA in Visual Arts Candidate
Flatlanders on the Slant: 50 Artists Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Slant Step [group show]
2012 Visions in Clay
Thursday, August 16 - Thursday, September 13
LH Horton Jr. Gallery at San Joaquin Delta College
RJ Calabrese, Richard Cutrona, and Jason Wallengren; MFA in Visual Arts '09
Yudh Abhyas: Training for War [group show]
'Yudh Abhyas' is an Indo- ‐American joint war exercise that has been conducted periodically from the year 2004, either in the forests of Mizoram, in the foothills of the Himalayas in India or at the Fort Richardson base in Alaska, Hawaii in the United States. From basic infantry skills to platoon battle drills, ambushes and counterinsurgency jungle warfare, soldiers from both the nations teach each other in these rigorous US/Indian Army trainings. In the 2006 Yudh Abhyas the American soldiers stayed at the temporarily vacated two- ‐story barracks of the 11th Sikh Regiment in New Delhi during their Himalayan training, dining on the Punjabi specialties the Sikh cooks had prepared. In the 2007 Alaskan training, Indian soldiers and US soldiers played soccer, basketball, and volleyball at an altitude of 6,500 feet, while the soldiers from the Gorkha regiment conducted yoga sessions for their American counterparts. Any form of 'Abhyas' comes with practice, patience, tolerance and understanding. I remember as a student, when I was burdened with the cultural and spiritual predicaments of two different worlds, the advice my American professor Julia Scher gave was unfussy. 'Fuck the dilemma' she said and the heavy load rolled off forever. Military exercise and art is achieved through mutual practice. However, when a celluloid symbol like 'The Dark Knight' could ignite a man to go on a shooting rampage in a cinema hall or cause a former soldier with social dilemmas to shower the praying Sikhs with gunshots, artists too hold the responsibility to unravel the quandary of the social order. Practicing art in a large metropolis or in suburbia is only a joint exercise and artists are collective- ‐ beings in this ever- ‐widening Global art commune. How could the art we practice disentangle the Gordian knot that was left for us to untie?
Tuesday, August 21 - Wednesday, September 5
A. Jain Marunouchi Gallery
Shawn Saumell, MFA in Visual Arts Candidate
Alternative Realities [juried group show]
Tuesday, August 7 - Saturday, September 1
Photoplace Gallery
Erin Shafkind, MFA in Visual Arts '10
Lo-Fi Arts Festival, Farm Time 2012 [group show]
Saturday, August 25, 12:00pm - Sunday, August 26, 12:00pm
The 6th quasi-annual Lo-Fi Arts Festival, Farm Time 2012, brings together over seventy-five exhibiting artists and hundreds of guests for a 24-hour journey into performance, installation, music, food, community, and the mutability of time. From life-size bird nests to larger-than-life fairy tale sculptures, and from aerial dance to underground rituals, expect the breathtaking and the bizarre.
Lo-Fi Arts Festival
Michelle Saffran, MFA in Visual Arts Candidate
Unbound, Vol. II: Art Using Books as a Material or Format [juried group show]
Friday, July 27 - Saturday, August 25
ArtisTree Gallery
Ian Torney, MFA in Visual Arts '08
Surface to Air
Monday, July 23 - Friday, August 17
Jill C. Wilson Gallery of the Kimball Jenkins Estate
Nancy McTague-Stock, MFA in Visual Arts '09
Black + White [group show]
Friday, June 1 - Wednesday, August 15
Heather Gaudio Fine Art
Denise Driscoll, MFA in Visual Arts '07
Off the Wall [group show]
Sunday, June 3 - Sunday, August 5, 2012
Exhibition juried by Cody Hartley, Director of Gifts at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Denise's piece, Brane 1, a large-scale mixed media drawing, was selected from over 1400 works by 500 artists.
Danforth Museum of Art
Shawn Saumell, MFA in Visual Arts Candidate
The Art of Instagram [group exhibition]
Thursday, July 12 - Saturday, August 4, 2012
Los Angeles Center for Digital Art
Mary Zompetti, MFA in Visual Arts Candidate
Open House [group exhibition]
Part of the Winnoski Pop-Up Gallery District
Friday, June 22 - Saturday, August 4, 2012
Curator Talk, Artist Reception, and Catalog Release - Thursday, July 19, 6:00pm
Curated by Amy Rahn, Open House is an art exhibition that explores "home" as a concept detached from the familiar architecture of the house. Artists Angelo Arnold, Kate Brandt, and Mary Zompetti each approach the meaning of "home" from richly varied perspectives. Arnold's "familiarture" upholstered sculptures, Brandt's insightful, darkly humorous video works, and Zompetti's ephemeral, meditative photographic works re-interpret the space and essence of "house" and "home", grounding the viewer in a contemplative space. Here, viewers are invited to see "home" as a concept open to interpretation, and a space open to exploration.
Zompetti received a grant to do an Artist Residency at the Vermont Studio Center, the largest international artists/writer's residency in the United States, during the first week of May 2012.
More on the Studio Center
Mary's home art installation, House/Home Project, was also recently reviewed in Seven Days, Vermont's Independent Voice.
Rita Maas, MFA in Visual Arts Candidate
Reality TV
Friday, May 25 - Friday, August 3, 2012
Reality TV investigates the blizzard of imagery and data we are exposed to daily, our compulsion to consume it, and the effects it may have on us. Maas states, "In approaching this series I focused on the imagery broadcast into our homes via the television. Instead of recording the faces and graphics on the screen, I recorded the ambient light emitted from the tube as it fell on the white walls of the room, reducing the imagery to pure color and muting its message. The assembled images of saturated color vibrate against each other, creating their own visual sensation."
University of the Arts Gallery 1401
Percy Fortini-Wright, MFA in Visual Arts '08
Recent Works: Sound and Form 2
Thursday, July 12 - Friday, August 3, 2012
Ugly Gallery
Jill Christian, MFA in Visual Arts '12
Rise/Set: Paintings by Jill Christian
Friday, July 6 - Thursday, July 26, 2012
Inspired by nuanced light and color in the moments surrounding dawn and dusk, the paintings in this exhibition present fields of brushstrokes that completely fill the canvas with subtly shifting colors. Working within the structure of repetition and reduction, these process-driven, meditative paintings create rhythmic patterns that invite quiet contemplation of their surfaces.
The Harwood Art Center
Betti Pettinati-Longinotti, MFA in Visual Arts Candidate
2012 American Glass Guild Annual Juried Exhibition
Friday, July 20 - Sunday, July 22, 2012
Pettinati-Longinotti will be exhibiting "Mi Frida," one of only 12 exhibited juried works, as well as presenting at the American Glass Guild Conference held the same weekend.
Omni William Penn Hotel
Rita Koehler, MFA in Visual Arts Candidate
The Kinsey Institute Juried Art Show 2012 [group show]
One of Rita's pieces from her series The Rite of Ordinary is being featured. In addition, Rita will be speaking on the artist panel on Saturday, May 19th during the opening weekend of the exhibit.
Saturday, May 19 - Saturday, July 21, 2012
Grunwald Gallery of Art
Stacey Piwinski, MFA in Visual Arts Candidate
Seductive Surfaces [juried group show of fine art fiber]
Tuesday, June 5 - Saturday, July 21, 2012
Gallery Seven
Shawn Saumell, MFA in Visual Arts Candidate
Viridian Artists' 23rd International Juried Exhibition [group show]
Tuesday, July 3 - Saturday, July 21, 2012
Juried by Chrissie Iles, curator of the Whitney Museum of American Art
Viridian Artists
Stacey Cushner, MFA in Visual Arts '10
Borrowing Forward: The New Vanitas
Saturday, June 9 - Monday, July 9, 2012
Marran Gallery at Lesley University
Jill Christian, MFA in Visual Arts '12
Intervals: Paintings by Jill Christian
Friday, June 1 - Friday, July 6, 2012
An Artscrawl First Friday event
Inpost Artspace at the Outpost Performance Space
Linda S. Fitz Gibbon, MFA in Visual Arts Candidate
Slice: A Juried Cross-Section of Regional Art [juried group show]
One of Linda's pieces was awarded second prize by Diana Daniels, Associate Curator of the Crocker Art Museum.
Friday, June 8 - Thursday, July 5, 2012
Pence Gallery
Noelle Fiori, MFA in Visual Arts Candidate
Cambridge Art Association's 11th National Prize Show
Thursday, May 31 - Thursday, July 5, 2012
Kathryn-Schultz Gallery
Phil Scorza, MFA in Visual Arts Candidate
One of the works from Phil's keep looking up series was accepted into the 2012 Briar Cliff Review. The image will be published in the book and included in an exhibition.
Saturday, May 5 - Sunday, July 1, 2012
Sioux City Art Center
MFA in Visual Arts Graduate Exhibition
Monday, June 25 - Saturday, June 30, 2012
Split between the Main Gallery and the Gallery at University Hall, this exhibition will feature the work of eighteen MFA students of the sixteenth graduating class.
Artists showing at 700 Beacon: Jill Brody, Jeff Brown, JooYoung Choi, Michael Cirelli, Steve Gentile, Liselott Johnsson, Francesca Milliken, Peter Murphey, Dana Pasila, and (lower level) Rebecca Colon Dickerson.
Artists showing at University Hall: Robert Bern, James Cox, Shea Justice, Aris Moore, Betti Pettinati-Longinotti, Diane Wiencke, and Joseph Wilcox.
Ebenezer Singh, MFA in Visual Arts '09
Eloi...Eloi...
Thursday, May 31 - Saturday, June 23, 2012
A series of work done by the artist in his New York studio. From press release: "These sublime mental paradigms on canvas are Ebenezer's socio-mythical insights, delivered on his self and the immediate social order that exists with or without his partaking. Ebenezer divulges his peripheral existence and his self-worth amidst the populace by making himself the central character of the painting. His physical, mental, and political positioning as the male protagonist not only brings out the sagacity of the artist but also redraws the political diagram of the observer who views the drama and apes the artist."
A. Jain Marunouchi Gallery
Tim Powers, MFA in Visual Arts '12
Intimacy, Form, and Space
Friday, June 1 - Monday, June 11, 2012
Whitdel Arts
Ya La'ford, MFA in Visual Arts Candidate
ArtFutura: Art in Motion [juried group show]
Thursday, May 31 - Thursday, June 7, 2012
Northwestern University Lurie Center
Jeri Eisenberg, MFA in Visual Arts '05
Luminous Landscapes
Wednesday, May 2 - Sunday, June 3, 2012
Wallspace Gallery
Jeffrey Ellse, Lynda Schlosberg, MFA in Visual Arts '09; Carol Mordecai Myers, Denise Driscoll, MFA in Visual Arts '07
Many Pieces Loosely Joined
Friday, June 1 - Sunday, June 3, 2012
Working together as Swarm Intelligence, AIB MFA alumni will collaborate on a large-scale drawing, Many Pieces Loosely Joined, for Alumni Weekend at Lesley University. Swarm Intelligence is a collaborative group that expands and contracts from project to project, always seeking new ways to work together. The group will also host a Panel Discussion focused on their process of collaboration and the influence these collaborations have on their individual practices.
Marran Gallery, Lesley University
Jenna Powell, MFA in Visual Arts Candidate
Sounding Patterns [one day contemporary art installation]
Saturday, June 2, 2012
White-Ellery House
Jill Brody, MFA in Visual Arts Candidate
All the Believers: The Hutterites of Liberty County, Montana
Through Thursday, May 31, 2012
Artist Talk: Saturday, April 14, 2:00pm
Grove Hall Library
Deborah Davidson, MFA in Visual Arts Faculty
Standing See
Friday, May 4 - Friday, May 25, 2012
Standing See is an elegant and evocative presentation of the artist's interior life. Echoing the subtle yet heroic work of the Minimalist sculptor, Anne Truitt, these hybrid painted sculptures reach that unique space where Davidson notes that, "Underlying all of this work is the attempt to resolve the conversation between wanting to reveal all and at the same time the desire to obliterate."
NKG Boston
Nancy Grace Horton, MFA in Visual Arts Candidate
PRC in NYC: Exhibition of Ten PRC Members' Work at the New York Photo Festival
Wednesday, May 16 - Sunday, May 20, 2012
The PRC is thrilled to announce the ten winners of the call for entries for the PRC in NYC juried competition and exhibition. Jurors Glenn Ruga, Neal Rantoul, and Chehalis Hegner met to discuss submissions and selected Nancy Grace Horton, along with nine other artists, to exhibit their work in a satellite exhibit at the New York Photo Festival.
111 Front Street, Gallery 210, Brooklyn
Leigh Yardley, MFA in Visual Arts Candidate
Made in NY 2012 [juried group show]
Thursday, March 31 - Sunday, May 20, 2012
Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center
Erin Shafkind, MFA in Visual Arts '10
Don't You (Forgot About Me)
Saturday, March 10 - Saturday, May 5, 2012
The digital age has changed our relationship to the book; going to bookstores, examining covers, even turning pages has become obsolete. This new work is Shafkin's attempt to exemplify the form. To praise its worthiness, to acknowledge an object that is shifting in meaning and use from cave wall hieroglyphics to animal skin scrolls to paper to the cloud.
The Firm, Georgetown
Clare Asch, MFA in Visual Arts '05
Geomorphs
Wednesday, April 4 - Sunday, April 29, 2012
Galatea Fine Art
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Deborah Davidson
Professor of Fine Arts
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