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EXHIBITIONS + PUBLIC PROGRAMS
SCHOOL OF THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS BOSTON SPRING 2016 JENNIFER BORNSTEIN FREIGHT ELEVATOR (DETAIL), 2014. COURTESY OF THE ARTIST AND GAVIN BROWN’S ENTERPRISE
230 The Fenway, Boston, MA 02115
SPRING INVITATIONAL RELATED EVENTS
January 28–March 6, 2016 On Exactitude in Science Barbara and Steven Grossman Gallery
February 9, 2016, 8:30–10 am
Reception: January 28, 5-7pm To stand in a room, on a street corner, in a city plaza, or studio, is to be surrounded by physical walls and floors that are themselves a multitude of materials and textures. The rough surface of a road, a smooth plaster wall, and regular indentations of a metal door all converge to frame what we broadly consider a room, a building, or a city, and the stories that fill them all.
Breakfast Walking Tour with Dina Deitsch Grossman Gallery
JUMANA MANNA TOMBSTONES FRAGMENTS FROM AL-KAZAKHANI GRAVEYARD SERIES. UNLICENSED PORCH, 2010/2014. COURTESY OF THE ARTIST AND CRG GALLERY, NEW YORK
How can an image or object represent the characteristics of a place? Organized by Dina Deitsch, this exhibition presents four artists—Jennifer Bornstein, Aslı Çavuşoğlu, Jumana Manna, and Elizabeth McAlpine—who address questions of representation through tactile approaches to surface in image and object making. Their interactions with the outermost layers, the very skin of architecture, are a means to affirm presence and possibility. Through analog techniques of rubbing, cutting, casting, and even psychic reading the four artists featured in “On Exactitude in Science” use models pulled from historical photography and archeology to directly engage the surfaces of physical spaces in their processes. They complicate the notion of an all-totalizing image of a site—whether a street, studio, or gallery—in favor of a direct capture of the myriad of details that coalesce to form a given location and its underlying narrative. In doing so, they create a form of indexical representation that is grounded in material and experience, favoring touch over vision, and the detailed fragment over the completed image. For more information, visit smfa.edu/exactitude-science.
February 2, 2016, 6:30 pm Jennifer Bornstein: Artist Talk Anderson Auditorium
ELIZABETH MCALPINE CORNERSTONE (WHISPERING), 2015. COURTESY OF THE ARTIST AND LAUREL GITLEN, NEW YORK
Jennifer Bornstein works in diverse media, including video, 16-millimeter film, sculpture, and etching. She has received numerous awards and grants including a DAAD BerlinerKünstlerprogramm fellowship and the 2014–2015 Radcliffe Institute Fellowship. She has exhibited at the Whitney Museum (New York), the Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles), and the Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), among others. She currently teaches in the VES Department at Harvard University.
Dina Deitsch is Director of Curatorial Projects at Goodman Taft, where she organizes artist commissions, publications, and public projects. She is also a faculty member in the Master of Fine Arts Graduate Program at SMFA. Previously, she was Curator of Contemporary Art at deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, where she established the PLATFORM artist project series alongside group exhibitions such as “Temporary Structures: Performing Architecture in Contemporary Art,” “PAINT THINGS: beyond the stretcher,” “Work Out: sustainable uses of landscape,” and “Walden, revisited.”
Tuesdays starting February 9, 2016, 5:30 pm Re-Reading Group: On Exactitude in Science
ASLI ÇAVUŞOĞLU WORDS DASH AGAINST THE FAÇADE, 2011 PHOTOGRAPH: PAULA COURT
March 3, 2016, 12:30 pm Aslı Çavuşoğlu: Artist Talk Room B209 Aslı Çavuşoğlu is a Turkish artist based in Istanbul. Her work utilizes different media to investigate silenced histories. Recent solo shows include “Murder in Three Acts” at Delfina Foundation (London) and Gallery NON (Istanbul). She has exhibited in group shows at Wiite de With Center for Contemporary Art (Rotterdam), Galeria Vermelho (Sao Paulo), the ICA (London), Borusan Contemporary (Istanbul) and New Museum (New York), among others.
Grossman Gallery SMFA Exhibitions is launching a bi-weekly reading group! This semester will focus on Jorge Luis Borges’ short parable, “On Exactitude in Science” (1946) which articulates the rivalry between a space and its representation. It takes on a new immediacy in today’s world of image saturation, in which one could easily argue that images have indeed replaced the experience of the original. Starting with Jean Baudrillard, “Simulacra and Simulation” (1981), each session will include accompanying texts to discuss Borges’ oneparagraph short story and its relationship to contemporary concerns.
March 5, 2016, 1 pm Aslı Çavuşoğlu: Words Dash Against the Façade Begins in front of the SMFA Join visiting artist Aslı Çavuşoğlu and special guests for Words Dash Against the Façade, an open interpretation of a fortune telling practice employed in ancient civilizations such as Assur, Babylon and Greece. According to Xenocrates, the readers would interpret the general structure of building including columns, façades, and ornaments. Originally commissioned by Performa11, the performance will be adapted for Boston. Space is limited. RSVP at smfa.edu/exactitude-science
GALLERY HOURS: Mon–Sat: 10 am–5 pm Wed: 10 am–8 pm Sun + Holidays: CLOSED
www.smfa.edu/exhibitions | 617-369-3718
EXHIBITIONS + PUBLIC PROGRAMS
SCHOOL OF THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS BOSTON SPRING 2016 JENNIFER BORNSTEIN FREIGHT ELEVATOR (DETAIL), 2014. COURTESY OF THE ARTIST AND GAVIN BROWN’S ENTERPRISE
230 The Fenway, Boston, MA 02115
SPRING INVITATIONAL RELATED EVENTS
January 28–March 6, 2016 On Exactitude in Science Barbara and Steven Grossman Gallery
February 9, 2016, 8:30–10 am
Reception: January 28, 5-7pm To stand in a room, on a street corner, in a city plaza, or studio, is to be surrounded by physical walls and floors that are themselves a multitude of materials and textures. The rough surface of a road, a smooth plaster wall, and regular indentations of a metal door all converge to frame what we broadly consider a room, a building, or a city, and the stories that fill them all.
Breakfast Walking Tour with Dina Deitsch Grossman Gallery
JUMANA MANNA TOMBSTONES FRAGMENTS FROM AL-KAZAKHANI GRAVEYARD SERIES. UNLICENSED PORCH, 2010/2014. COURTESY OF THE ARTIST AND CRG GALLERY, NEW YORK
How can an image or object represent the characteristics of a place? Organized by Dina Deitsch, this exhibition presents four artists—Jennifer Bornstein, Aslı Çavuşoğlu, Jumana Manna, and Elizabeth McAlpine—who address questions of representation through tactile approaches to surface in image and object making. Their interactions with the outermost layers, the very skin of architecture, are a means to affirm presence and possibility. Through analog techniques of rubbing, cutting, casting, and even psychic reading the four artists featured in “On Exactitude in Science” use models pulled from historical photography and archeology to directly engage the surfaces of physical spaces in their processes. They complicate the notion of an all-totalizing image of a site—whether a street, studio, or gallery—in favor of a direct capture of the myriad of details that coalesce to form a given location and its underlying narrative. In doing so, they create a form of indexical representation that is grounded in material and experience, favoring touch over vision, and the detailed fragment over the completed image. For more information, visit smfa.edu/exactitude-science.
February 2, 2016, 6:30 pm Jennifer Bornstein: Artist Talk Anderson Auditorium
ELIZABETH MCALPINE CORNERSTONE (WHISPERING), 2015. COURTESY OF THE ARTIST AND LAUREL GITLEN, NEW YORK
Jennifer Bornstein works in diverse media, including video, 16-millimeter film, sculpture, and etching. She has received numerous awards and grants including a DAAD BerlinerKünstlerprogramm fellowship and the 2014–2015 Radcliffe Institute Fellowship. She has exhibited at the Whitney Museum (New York), the Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles), and the Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), among others. She currently teaches in the VES Department at Harvard University.
Dina Deitsch is Director of Curatorial Projects at Goodman Taft, where she organizes artist commissions, publications, and public projects. She is also a faculty member in the Master of Fine Arts Graduate Program at SMFA. Previously, she was Curator of Contemporary Art at deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, where she established the PLATFORM artist project series alongside group exhibitions such as “Temporary Structures: Performing Architecture in Contemporary Art,” “PAINT THINGS: beyond the stretcher,” “Work Out: sustainable uses of landscape,” and “Walden, revisited.”
Tuesdays starting February 9, 2016, 5:30 pm Re-Reading Group: On Exactitude in Science
ASLI ÇAVUŞOĞLU WORDS DASH AGAINST THE FAÇADE, 2011 PHOTOGRAPH: PAULA COURT
March 3, 2016, 12:30 pm Aslı Çavuşoğlu: Artist Talk Room B209 Aslı Çavuşoğlu is a Turkish artist based in Istanbul. Her work utilizes different media to investigate silenced histories. Recent solo shows include “Murder in Three Acts” at Delfina Foundation (London) and Gallery NON (Istanbul). She has exhibited in group shows at Wiite de With Center for Contemporary Art (Rotterdam), Galeria Vermelho (Sao Paulo), the ICA (London), Borusan Contemporary (Istanbul) and New Museum (New York), among others.
Grossman Gallery SMFA Exhibitions is launching a bi-weekly reading group! This semester will focus on Jorge Luis Borges’ short parable, “On Exactitude in Science” (1946) which articulates the rivalry between a space and its representation. It takes on a new immediacy in today’s world of image saturation, in which one could easily argue that images have indeed replaced the experience of the original. Starting with Jean Baudrillard, “Simulacra and Simulation” (1981), each session will include accompanying texts to discuss Borges’ oneparagraph short story and its relationship to contemporary concerns.
March 5, 2016, 1 pm Aslı Çavuşoğlu: Words Dash Against the Façade Begins in front of the SMFA Join visiting artist Aslı Çavuşoğlu and special guests for Words Dash Against the Façade, an open interpretation of a fortune telling practice employed in ancient civilizations such as Assur, Babylon and Greece. According to Xenocrates, the readers would interpret the general structure of building including columns, façades, and ornaments. Originally commissioned by Performa11, the performance will be adapted for Boston. Space is limited. RSVP at smfa.edu/exactitude-science
GALLERY HOURS: Mon–Sat: 10 am–5 pm Wed: 10 am–8 pm Sun + Holidays: CLOSED
STUDENT EXHIBITIONS
April 28–May 21 2016
April 16–August 7, 2016
Graduating Students and Award Recipients Exhibition
Sean Townley
Anderson Auditorium + Grossman Gallery
January 27–February 10, 2016 Photography 2016 Weems Center, Project Space + BAG Featuring recent photography work by select current graduate and undergraduate students, the exhibition will explore a variety of materials, approaches and perspectives through different photographic media.
January 27–February 5, 2016 INTO? The Well (formerly known as the Downstairs Gallery) Featuring works by students Hannah Bates, Kirk Lorenzo, and Damaris Swass that dig out the nonnormative, the “other,” and the “kinky” side of queerness. Organized by Lorenzo, “INTO?” is part of the spring series of student-curated exhibitions.
February 7–March 12, 2016
Featuring over 70 works by graduating SMFA students in all programs as well as works that received special awards during the 2015–16 academic year.
Reception: Thursday, April 28, 5-7 pm
KATE GILMORE A TISKET, A TASKET, (VIDEO STILL), 2013.
Cyclorama Show: Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition, SMFA, Boston The Cyclorama, Boston Center for the Arts This dynamic group exhibition features the internationally diverse, emerging artists of the MFA class of 2016 working across disciplines including film/video, painting, performance, sculpture, and photography. Funded in part by Sandy Moose and Eric Birch.
Hours: May 17–19 11 am–7 pm; May 20, 11 am–5 pm Reception: Friday, May 20, 7:30–10 pm
Mission Hill Gallery + The Well
May 21–25, 2016
Nave Gallery, Inside-OUT Gallery, CVS windows at Davis Square (Somerville) + Cambridge Caravan
Senior Thesis Show 2016
This series of rotating exhibitions across multiple sites presents the diverse practices being cultivated in the Master of Fine Arts Graduate Program, SMFA.
Featuring works by final-year undergraduate students in the Senior Thesis Program.
Painting Area Biennial: She Comes in Rags Weems Center, Project Space + BAG Featuring recent student work in painting from across programs, including abstraction, representation, hybrid, and experimental forms.
March 15–April 5, 2016 Print, Paper and Graphic Arts Area Exhibition Weems Center, Project Space + BAG Featuring a wide array of works from two-dimensional prints, books, and installations to paper sculpture, printed multiples for gifting and interventions, graphic animations and digital screen based work.
March 28–April 8, 2016
2016 SMFA MEDAL AWARD Honoring Mona Hatoum
For his first museum solo exhibition, SMFA Traveling Fellow Sean Townley (BFA/Diploma ‘09) is creating new works in dialogue with the MFA collection following conversations with curators and conservators on issues relating to sculptural reproduction.
May 17–20, 2016
First Year MFA Students Spring Exhibition
February 16–March 10, 2016
Eunice and Julian Cohen Galleria (Gallery 265), Museum of Fine Arts
A Building, 3rd Floor Studios
Reception: Saturday, May 21, 5–8 pm
SMFA AT THE MFA
VISITING ARTISTS SERIES The 2015-2016 SMFA Visiting Artists Series is made possible through the generosity of Sandy Moose and Eric Birch. All lectures at SMFA are free and open to the public.
March 16, 2016, 6:30 pm Joselina Cruz Anderson Auditorium Joselina Cruz is the Director and Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design (MCAD), De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde (Manila, Philippines). She was one of the networking curators for the 13th Jakarta Biennale. She writes essays, reviews, criticism and art commentary. Co-hosted with Independent Curators International (New York).
February 10, 2016, 6:30 pm Guy Maddin Anderson Auditorium Guy Maddin is an installation and internet artist, lecturer at Harvard University, writer and filmmaker. He has directed 11 featurelength movies, including “The Forbidden Room” (2015), “My Winnipeg” (2007), “The Saddest Music in the World” (2003), and innumerable shorts. He has also mounted over 70 performances of his films featuring live elements—orchestra, sound effects, singing, and narration.
February 24, 2016 7–8 pm Deborah and Martin Hale Visiting Artist Lecture
CHARMAINE WHEATLEY HACHEZ SET, 2010-2012
The No Mind Not Thinks No Things Things
March 30, 2016, 6:30 pm
Doug and Mike Starn in conversation with Chris Bratton, SMFA President
Charmaine Wheatley
Remis Auditorium, MFA
Charmaine Wheatley’s practice, which includes performance, sculpture, printed matter and painting, involves a daily “sketchbook” habit. She is never without her pocket-sized watercolor set, pens, and a recycled tin box filled with custom cut paper. She has published four books: “Beau Fleuve: The Heart of North America” (2006), “30% of Buffalo… Is Functionally Illiterate” (2009), “Brett’s Ball” (2014) and “Souvenirs” (2015). Her two-week residency at SMFA is in partnership with the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Artist-in-Residency Program.
Gain insights into the conceptual, poetic, and philosophical nature of the photographic and sculptural works of SMFA alumni Doug and Mike Starn (Dip ’84, FY ’85). Their conversation will span 30 years of their creations, from their seminal Scotch-taped photographs, to their mesmerizing Big Bambú installations.
Ticket Required: MFA Members $16/ Nonmembers $20
Monday, May 23, 2016 PHOTOGRAPH: JIM RAKETE
Shapiro Family Courtyard, Museum of Fine Arts
The SMFA Medal is awarded annually to individuals who have made a significant and lasting impact on the art world. The gala raises vital funds for scholarships and educational opportunities for SMFA students. Since its inaugural presentation in 1996, the SMFA Medal has paid tribute to some of the most noteworthy artists and influential art patrons of our time.
Anderson Auditorium
GUY MADDIN 10 MINUTES IN THE DARK. PHOTOGRAPH: PHILIPPE MIGEAT
February 17, 2016, 6:30 pm Jeremy Bailey Anderson Auditorium Jeremy Bailey is a Toronto-based Famous New Media Artist whose work employs augmented reality software and hardware in international performances, often over the Internet. Recent projects include performances for the IMPAKT Festival (Utrecht); a solo exhibition at Transmediale (Berlin); a group exhibition at Whitechapel Gallery (London) and Balice Hertling (Paris); as well as recent commissions for FACT (Liverpool) and The New Museum (New York).
For more information visit smfa.edu/medal Post-Baccalaureate Spring Exhibition Mission Hill Gallery Featuring new works by the current class of Post-Bac students.
April 12, 2016, 6:30 pm Hank Willis Thomas Anderson Auditorium Hank Willis Thomas is a photo conceptual artist working primarily with themes related to identity, history and popular culture. He has exhibited throughout the U.S. and abroad including, the Cleveland Art Museum, Studio Museum in Harlem, and the Istanbul Biennial. Recent notable exhibitions include “Repetition and Difference” at the Jewish Museum (New York) and Public Art Fund’s “Image- Objects” in City Hall Park (New York). This talk is sponsored in part by Samuels & Associates, the Verb Hotel, and The Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy.
JEREMY BAILEY, SELF PORTRAIT, 2015
April 16–22, 2016 Students Curate Students: First Year MFA Students
DOUG AND MIKE STARN, BIG BAMBÚ, MINOTAUR HORN HEAD, 2012
Mission Hill Gallery First Year graduate students curate an exhibition of select works by First Year MFA students.
Reception: April 21, 5–7 pm
April 25–29, 2016 Art Education Festival Mission Hill Gallery Celebration of the artwork produced by the Boston area K-12 school students under the guidance of MAT students in the Tufts/SMFA Art Education program.
Reception: April 29, 4–6:30 pm
February 27–August 21, 2016 Students Curate Students: Drawing Connections Courtyard Gallery (G86), Museum of Fine Arts Group exhibition featuring new works that specifically explore and respond to objects in the MFA collections and the architecture of the institution through varied drawing practices. Organized by Gabriel Sosa, John McCool and Seth Van Der Eems.
smfa.edu/exhibitions
March 2, 2016, 6:30 pm Kate Gilmore Anderson Auditorium Kate Gilmore synthesizes video, sculpture, photography, and performance to activate post-feminist critiques of sex and gender. Awards and grants include the Rauschenberg Residency Award and Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome. She has participated in the Whitney Biennial (New York) and The Moscow Biennial, (Moscow) and had solo exhibitions at MoCA Cleveland and Institute of Contemporary Art (Philadelphia) among others.
HANK WILLIS THOMAS, RYAN ALEXIEV, AND JIM RICKS, IN SEARCH OF THE TRUTH (THE TRUTH BOOTH), TRUTH BOOTH IRELAND 2011 & AFGHANISTAN 2013
In Search of the Truth (The Truth Booth) is a collaborative project by Cause Collective members, Hank Willis Thomas, Ryan Alexiev and Jim Ricks. The Truth Booth will be in Boston April 11–12, 2016 at the Verb Hotel and April 13–15 on the Rose Kennedy Greenway.