MFA Students & Alumni Events and Exhibitions

Rita Koehler, MFA in Visual Arts Candidate
The Rite of Ordinary
Friday, December 2, 2011 - Saturday, January 28, 2012 (by appointment)
Reception: Friday, December 2, 5:00pm - 8:00pm
923 West Colfax Ave, South Bend, Indiana | artist's site

Percy Fortini-Wright, MFA in Visual Arts '08
Language & Sound as Form
Opening Reception: Saturday, February 11, 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Saturday, February 11 - Wednesday, February 29, 2012
The Gallery at The Piano Factory | artist's site

Adam Gooder, MFA in Visual Arts '06
Darkroom Flowers: Photos by Adam Gooder [solo show]
Friday, January 6 - Saturday, March 3, 2012
Twenty-five images of dying flowers pirnted on antique papers using the strange and wonderful lith process.
Holderness School | artist's site

Rita Maas, MFA in Visual Arts Candidate
Missing presumed Dead
Saturday, February 11 - Sunday, March 18, 2012
The exhibition focuses on the complex but intriguing relationship between realism and abstraction in contemporary photography.
CAST Gallery | artist's site

Noelle Fiori, MFA in Visual Arts Candidate, and Susan Emmerson, MFA in Visual Arts '12
7th Annual Juried Student Art Exhibition: The Metaphorical Body
Wednesday, February 1 - Friday, March 23, 2012
Opening Reception: Wednesday, February 1, 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Rubin - Frankel Gallery | Noelle's site | Susan's site

Patrick Loehr, MFA in Visual Arts '09
Gothic [group show]
Curated by Amy Grimm
Thursday, February 2 - Saturday, March 24, 2012
Orange County Center for Contemporary Art | artist's site

Jeff Badger, MFA in Visual Arts '05
Badger is featured as one of "25 artists that have captured our imagination" by Artscope Magazine.
Artscope Magazine article | artist's site
and
Teeny Tiny Art Show #9 [group show of tiny art]
Opening Reception: Friday, February 3
Three Graces Gallery
and
Gallery Artists show
Opening Reception: Friday, February 3
Rose Contemporary

Michael Pfleghaar, MFA in Visual Arts '11
Reinforcing Objecthood
Friday, February 10 - Sunday, April 22, 2012
Pfleghaar's current work translates three-dimensional utilitarian form onto a flat plane, resulting in a new physical object. By integrating elements of design objects, his paintings lie somewhere between representation and abstraction. more
Grand Rapids Art Museum | 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 .
more | artist's site

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.
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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. 
Trustman site | artist's site
 

Recent Events 

Jeff Badger, MFA in Visual Arts '05
6/6/6 [group show co-organized by Badger]
September 2011 - January 2012
Gallery 37-A | artist's site

MFA in Visual Arts 15th in Visual Arts Graduate Exhibition
featuring the works of Teresa A. Bonillo, Susan Emmerson, Nancy Grace Horton, Kathleen Jacobs, Catherine Vanaria, and Evan Villari
Monday, January 9 - Saturday, January 14, 2012
Wine Reception: Friday, January 13, 8:00pm - 9:30pm
AIB University Hall Gallery

MFA in Visual Arts 15th in Visual Arts Graduate Exhibition
featuring the works of Ian Blethen, Jill Christian, Gillian B. Mosvold, Michael R. Powell, Jarrod Staples, Robert Sullivan, Sergio R.  Velázquez, and Tiffany Dyer (lower level)
Monday, January 9 - Saturday, January 14, 2012
Reception: Saturday, January 14, 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Toast to entire graduating class: 8:00pm, Room 215
AIB Main Gallery

Edie Bresler, MFA in Visual Arts '10
You Scratch My Back; I'll Scratch Yours
Thursday, December 1, 2011 - Sunday, January 1, 2012
Inside-Out Art Windows, Davis Square | artist's site

Hannah Barrett, MFA in Visual Arts Faculty
Tea with the Gibsons
Wednesday, November 9 - Tuesday, December 13
Opening Reception: Sunday, November 20th, 12:00pm - 2:00pm
Childs Gallery | artist's site
and
Family Jewels
Friday, November 18 - Friday, December 30, 2011
Opening Reception: Saturday, November 19th, 4:00pm - 6:00pm
Howard Yezerski Gallery | artist's site

Josh Luke, MFA in Visual Arts Candidate
The Pre-Vinylite Society Sign Art Show [group show]
Saturday, November 12 - Thursday, December 8, 2011
Orchard Skateshop | artist's site

John Chang, MFA in Visual Arts '09
Solo Exhibition
Friday, September 30 - Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Mill Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM

Betti Pettinatti-Longinotti, MFA in Visual Arts candidate
Faces: An Exhibition of Portraiture [group show]
Thursday, September 22 - Thursday, November 17, 2011
Davis Gallery at Sawtooth School for Visual Art | artist's site

Deborah  Davidson, MFA in Visual Arts Faculty
Cannot  Be  Described  In  Words:  Drawing  Expanded [group show curated by Davidson]
Featured  artists: Jill Slosburg Ackerman,  Ilona  Anderson,  Sheila  Gallagher,  Audrey  Goldstein,  Raul  Gonzalez,   Chuck  Holtzman,  Fred  Liang,  Cynthia  Maurice,  Randal Thurston  and  Debra Weisberg 
Thursday, October  20 – Sunday, November  20,  2011
Concord  Art  Association | artist's site | Boston Globe Review

Nancy McTague-Stock, MFA in Visual Arts '09
Fragments of the Aquatic
Sunday, September 25 - Friday, November 4, 2011
Opening Reception: Sunday, September 25, 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Lecture, "Water as Muse: Considering Perception": Sunday, October 23, 2:30pm
Silvermine Galleries | artist's site

Alison Williams, MFA in Visual Arts '09
New Work - Wunderkammer Garden
Monday, September 12 - Saturday, October 22
SNHU’s McIninch Art Gallery | artist's site

Michael Finnigan, MFA in Visual Arts 2008; Carolyn Latourelle, MFA in Visual Arts 2007; Keith MacLelland, MFA in Visual Arts 2008
On the Edge[group show]
Friday, September 30 - Friday, October 28
Selected as 66 works from 113 pieces of art by Juror Jane Young
Hopkinton Center for the Arts | Michael's site | Keith's site

Robert Gerhardt, MFA in Visual Arts '07
Muslim/American, American/Muslim: Portrait of a Brooklyn Masjid
Wednesday, August 31 - Friday, October 28
Mezzanine Gallery, St. John's University | artist's site
and
Life on the Border: The Karen People of Burma
Thursday, September 22 - Sunday, October 16
Colburn Gallery, Ashland University

Jeri Eisenberg, MFA in Visual Arts '05
Bokeh
Saturday, September 17 - Saturday, October 15, 2011
John Cleary Gallery | artist's site

Monica Goldsmith, MFA in Visual Arts '10
Monica has been offered a residency at Ragdale in Lake Forest, Illinois, from October 6 to October 19, 2011.
Ragdale Residency Program | artist's site

Lisa Kellner, MFA in Visual Arts '08
Love is a Place
Thursday, September 8 - Saturday, October 15
Bravin Lee Programs
and
Skin Deep, Miles Wide
Monday, September 19 - Friday, October 14
Cecelia Coker Bell Gallery

Aaron Lish, MFA in Visual Arts Candidate
Coming of Age in a Pre-Apocalyptic Post-Modern World (Life is a Fishbowl) [interactive installation]
Friday, October 7, 6:00pm, 7:00pm, and 8:00pm performances
tbd Loft Community Gallery

Deb Todd Wheeler, MFA in Visual Arts Faculty
Wheeler's exhibition "BLEW" at Miller Block Gallery has been selected by the Boston Globe and the Boston Phoenix as one of the ten best shows of 2010.
Boston Globe List | artist's site

Stacey Cushner, MFA in Visual Arts '10; Jeff Ellse, MFA in Visual Arts '09; Cyn Hauk, MFA in Visual Arts '10; and Rachel Woodburn, MFA in Visual Arts '10
Still Life: Variations on a Theme [group show curated by Cushner]
Friday, August 5 - Sunday, September 11, 2011
Artist Talks: Thursday, August 4, 4:00pm
Reception: Friday, August 5, 5:00pm - 7:00pm
AVA Gallery and Art Center, Rebecca Laurence and Clifford West Galleries
Cushner's site | Ellse's site | Hauk's site | Woodburn's site

Kathline Carr, MFA in Visual Arts candidate
Nine [group show]
Friday, September 2 - Thursday, September 22
ArtStrand | artist's site

Molly Painter, MFA in Visual Arts candidate
Day of the Dead [group show]
Friday, September 2 - Thursday, September 22
Side Street Gallery | artist's site

MFA in Visual Arts 14th Graduate Exhibition
Monday, June 20 - Saturday, June 25, 2011
At the AIB Main Gallery: the works of Cameron Bennett, Betsy Hubner, Jeff Meeuwsen, Mary Morrison, Algirdas Nakas, Marat Paransky, Tim Powers, Steven Samson, and Rachel Trusty. Melanie Carr and Roberto Mighty will be showing in the lowel level of 700 Beacon Street.
Reception: Saturday, June 25, 8:00pm - 10:00pm (toast to graduates at 8:00pm in room 215) | more info
At the University Hall Gallery: the works of Melissa Chandon, Joshua Cox, Janet Fagan, Cecilia Givens, Salley Knight, and Michael Pfleghaar.
Reception: Friday, June 24, 8:00pm - 9:30pm | more info

Nina Ata, Wesley Ennis, Kristin Ford, Shea Justice, Joshua Luke, Roberto Mighty, Jason Pramas; MFA in Visual Arts Degree Candidates
visionseven [group show]
Sunday, May 22 - Thursday, June 30, 2011
Work from seven Boston-area artists, all of whom are MFA Visual Arts candidates at The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University
Reception: Sunday, May 22, 3:00pm - 5:00pm.  Wine and snacks will be served.  Open to the public.
contact jason@openmediaboston.org or 617-506-9515 for more information
Outpost 186 | event page

Laurel Sparks, MFA in Visual Arts Faculty
Against Nature
Curated by Chris Warrington
Tuesday, May 10, 2011 – Friday, June 3, 2011
4 4 3  P A S is pleased to announce Against Nature, an exhibition of large paintings by Laurel Sparks.  Combining the ornate flatness of fin-de-siècle modernism with the gestural wildness of early Abstract Expressionism, Sparks uses theatrical iconography inspired by queer and psychedelic cinema, inventing an aesthetic lexicon akin to high femme drag.
Reception: Tuesday, May 10, 2011, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
4 4 3  P A S | artist's site

Melanie Carr, MFA in Visual Arts '05
SWAP SHOP: Living Store performance [part of Kickin It: 10 Artists' Use of One Window]
Saturday, May 7 - Sunday, May 8, 2011
SWAP SHOP is a participatory public piece about exchange. SWAP SHOP allows participants/the public to set the market by their willingness to contribute in an exchange of goods where the “swap” becomes the market price; one item equals one item, etc. The Swap Shop becomes social sculpture with restorative power for human connectedness. The SWAP SHOP depends upon public participation where one’s willingness to partake in an alternative system spur’s the creativity of its makers and viewers, where viewers become producers of an experience, and life and art are finely integrated among all.
Soapbox Gallery | artist's site

JooYoung Choi, MFA in Visual Arts Candidate
The Cosmic Womb; a place and an art show
Friday, April 8 - Saturday, April 30, 2011
Reception will feature a coloring contest, raffled works, tiny affordable arts, and more.
Directions to the Lily Pad | artist's site

MFAconnects@POSTAIB.edu: MFA in Visual Arts Alumni Show
featuring the works of 82 artists from all over the world
Tuesday, March 29 - Saturday, April 30, 2011
In January 2011, the first MFA Alumni exhibition was held at Fourth Wall Projects in Boston. This exhibition is traveling to Art Center, Hargate Gallery in Concord, NH in March-April.
Directions to Art Center in Hartgate | slideshow of the work

Jason Wallengren, MFA in Visual Arts '09
The Spring Exhibition 2011 [group show]
Saturday, March 5 - Monday, April 25, 2011
The Spring Exhibition (‘Forårsudstillingen’) is one of the most important open submission exhibitions in Europe, and has been held annually at Charlottenborg in Copenhagen since 1857.  The exhibition is held at Kunsthal Charlottenborg in Copenhagen, one of the largest and most important spaces for contemporary art in Europe.
more info | Kunsthal Charlottenborg | artist's site

Percy Fortini-Wright, MFA in Visual Arts '08, and Shea Justice, MFA in Visual Arts Degree Candidate as of Fall '09
The Collaborative: an art experience [group show]
February 4 - February 27, 2011
Gallery at the Piano Factory
Percy's site | Shea's site

Bridget Lynch, MFA in Visual Arts '11
3rd Annual Narrative Shorts Festival [group show]
Lynch's film Weary Frame (11:00) was featured
February 2 - February 11, 2011
CSU Chico State Art Gallery | artist's site

MFA in Visual Arts 13th in Visual Arts Graduate Exhibition
featuring the works of the graduating class: Alex Leaver, B. Lynch, Carolyn Rordam, Cynthia L. Newsome, George E. Peterson IV, Adam Bernard, Asa Gallagher, Brandon Kuehn, Julia A. Mills, Moira Barrett, Peter O. Zierlein, Thomas M. Little, and Tim Ouillette.
January 10 - January 15, 2011
AIB Gallery

Images at left from top:
Hannah Barrett, For two is the Most Imperfect of All Numbers, 2011, oil on panel with gold leaf
Jeri Eisenberg, Magnolia, ink & encaustic on Kozo paper
Molly Painter, 3 ft. collage skull
Lisa Kellner, Implosion, 2010, ink, acrylic, raw pigment and ink drawing on Mylar
Allison Williams, Glasshouse #5, exhibition view from Wunderkammer Garden, 2011
Jason Wallengren, Bild Perfekt #2, 2010, found postcard mounted on clock motor that makes one revolution per hour
Keith MacLelland, Sorry You're Gonna Miss the Show, 2010, embellished digital + mixed media collage
Denise Driscoll, Invisible Threads, 2010, mixed media
Gregory Kitterle, Playing with with Gaia, 2010, oil on board
Ivers Bever, Autumnal Hymn, 2008, digital print
Jeffrey Ellse, Suppressor, 2010, graphite and ink wash on bristol
Katherine Farrington, Untitled, 2010, acrylic on xexan with hardware mounted on mylar-covered board
Martha Galuszka, Red Rock Garden, 2010, print, wood, and wax
Michael Finnegan, Viral, 2010, oil on board
Brynn Dizack, Proximity 3, 2010, ink and transfer print on paper
Carolyn Latourelle, Dwelling No. Five, 2010, digital photograph

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