November 2020
DEAN’S MESSAGE
We are in the midst of multiple historic challenges: the COVID pandemic and its revelation of the depths of social disparities in America; the ongoing crisis of our country’s racist past and present, and the renewed imperative for justice and equity; and a presidential election the stakes of which could not be higher. Since its founding, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts has rebelled against complacency, resignation, and despair. As these interconnected challenges bore down on us this year, our faculty made profound changes to our curriculum, developing new courses to meet the moment. These courses do not shy away from the painful truths about the state of the world. At the same time, our faculty have led with the conviction that a much better world is possible and have spent the past few months recommitting ourselves to active anti-racism efforts. Most of our students this semester—44 percent of whom, I’m pleased to report, are students of color—are studying in person at SMFA; others are joining us virtually from all over the world. We have delivered to every student, wherever they may be, a box of supplies customized to their particular set of courses. We’ve also turned many of our classrooms into hundreds of safe, private studios for all our students on campus. And, of course, we also have been reimagining the annual SMFA Art Sale. This year, we are using an online platform to present to you an exciting, highly curated array of artworks. Like you, we are going to miss the chance to celebrate in person, but we have done everything we can to bring you an enjoyable online art sale experience and very much hope that you will give it a try. Don’t forget that proceeds from the sale go towards making sure that no student who belongs at SMFA will be turned away because they can’t afford to join us. Every penny we raise will ensure that we can continue to meet the full demonstrated financial need of all of our students. I hope that you enjoy the online experience and find something you love. Thank you for supporting SMFA and our wonderful students. Sincerely,
Nancy Bauer Dean School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University
OVERVIEW
The SMFA Art Sale celebrates the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University’s vibrant community of artists from across the globe. Your purchase directly supports SMFA’s vision to lead the way in preparing artists who start conversations that matter. Proceeds support the sale’s contributing artists and help SMFA meet our commitment to support 100 percent of the demonstrated financial aid needs of all SMFA students. The COVID-19 crisis has dramatically increased students’ financial need, so your support is more important than ever! With more than 200 participating artists, this virtual sale features exciting new work from well-recognized names such as Gonzalo Fuenmayor, Rachel Perry, and Lalla Essaydi, as well as the work of many first-time participants, including Jamal Thorne, Tara Lewis, and Liz Cohen. The collection was juried by Akili Tommasino, associate curator of modern and contemporary art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Nina Johnson, director of Nina Johnson Gallery in Miami; and SMFA alumna Shinique Smith. 2020 SPONSORS
Thank you to our individual sponsors: Judi and Tim Ritchie, Jessie and Sam Rubenstein, Carol and Richard Daynard, and John Hage. Thank you, too, to our institutional sponsors, Around the Corner, Art New England, Boston Art Review, bostonguide.com, Cube, Fortress, and Stanhope Framers.
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On these pages, you will see highlights of this year’s work. If you are interested in any of the artwork in the catalog or would like to see additional works, please contact the SMFA staff at SMFAartsale@ tufts.edu or call 617-627-0053. Many objects are purchased before the sale opens to the public on November 9, so don’t delay. PERSONALIZED PREVIEW EXPERIENCE
Before the sale opens, we invite you to schedule a one-on-one session with SMFA staff to explore the sale’s artwork via Zoom. Learn the stories behind the artists and their practice in a personalized “walk-through” of the sale. To schedule your personalized preview session, between October 26 and November 6, contact SMFAartsale@tufts.edu or call 617-627-0053. PAYMENT
Visa, Mastercard, Discover, and American Express are accepted as payment. To help direct even more support toward student financial aid, consider calling SMFA at 617-627-0053 to make your purchase by phone rather than purchasing online. All purchases are final, and payment must be made prior to receiving the artwork. Unfortunately, no exchanges or refunds are available. ARTWORK PICKUP/DELIVERY
Artwork will be available for curbside pickup at SMFA at Tufts, located at 230 Fenway, Boston, between December 12 and 15 at prescheduled time blocks. If you are unable to collect your work in person, you may choose to have it professionally shipped for an additional fee. SMFA staff will work with you directly to coordinate pickup or shipment. PHILANTHROPIC SUPPORT
The spirit of community at SMFA exists whether we are together or apart. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, faculty, staff, students, alumni, parents, and friends have all joined in caring for students’ needs, from physical and mental well-being, to unanticipated financial hardship, to minimizing academic disruption. Your philanthropy allows us to continue responding as new challenges arise. Faculty and staff are working around the clock so that students continue to receive the education and mentorship that are at the core of our mission. Your support makes this possible. To make a tax-deductible gift to SMFA at Tufts, visit: go.tufts.edu/StudentsSMFA
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Drifting Gate
Matsuyama Sanbancho
Tomb Hug
MAIA LYNCH, MFA 13 Drifting Gate, 2016, gouache on paper, 32 x 26, framed, $4,250 Matsuyama Sanbancho, 2016, gouache on paper, 32 x 26, framed, $4,250 Tomb Hug, 2016, gouache on paper, 33 x 24.5, framed, $4,250 Caramel Garden, 2016, gouache on paper, 32 x 26, framed, $4,250 Lynch was awarded the SMFA Traveling Fellowship in 2016, earning her a solo exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. These four paintings are the last four works on paper available from the exhibition. Lynch’s work has been featured in Asia Art Pacific, Art News, and the New American Paintings’ MFA Annual.
“My mother’s family is from the smallest and least populous of Japan’s four main islands, Shikoku. When the author Kenzaburo Oe delivered his Nobel Lecture after receiving the prize in literature in 1994, he described Shikoku as ‘a peripheral, marginal, off-centre region of the peripheral, marginal, off-centre country, Japan.’ I spent two and a half months visiting the ‘peripheral’ regions of southern Japan with support from the SMFA Traveling Fellowship. This series was created out of those travels, drawing from my own experience of belonging to two different places that cannot be physically or psychologically reconciled.”
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Caramel Garden
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GREG LOOKERSE, MFA 14 Commission pricing: 36 x 36, $4,500 45 x 45, $6,500; 45 x 65, $8,500 Lookerse’s geometric window and architectural constructions are available for commission. He will work with each collector to design a custom piece. Fifty percent of all commissions will be donated to SMFA.
“Most of my inspiration comes from reading and perhaps misreading texts. Many of my pieces work directly with the books as material and context. A friend and mentor, Jesseca Ferguson, always says, ‘A book has a way of finding you.’ I combine these books and opinions in the studio to make a work of art. It is hard to predict where the words will lead me. I am interested in the absurdity of faith and faith-based actions. In a sense, my artwork’s power is to cut through visual noise. The finished work is a sight of quiet and purity.”
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GONZALO FUENMAYOR, MFA 04 Apocalypse XL, 2020, charcoal on paper, 76 x 45, unframed, $20,000 In addition to Apocalypse XL, the artist generously committed to producing up to two additional chandelier commissions for this year’s SMFA Art Sale. Fifty percent of all commissions will be donated to SMFA. Recent solo shows include Empire, Dolby Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco; Gonzalo Fuenmayor, Windgate Center of Art + Design, UA Little Rock, Arkansas; Inventario de Lagrimas, Galería Fernando Pradilla, Madrid; and Todos Tenemos Nuestra Sombra, Galería El Museo, Bogotá, Colombia.
—Hansen Mulford, curator at the Orlando Museum of Art
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“Bananas are a recurring motif in Fuenmayor’s drawings. They are a cliché of tropical culture with absurd and comic undertones. Fuenmayor also sees in them the dark history of political repression and labor exploitation that accompanied Central America’s plantation economies into the 20th century. Titles like Apocalypse Magnus suggest this ominous history, as does the massive bunch of bananas emerging from the shadows and lit from below by an opulent crystal chandelier. This incongruous juxtaposition of bananas and chandelier glowing in black space is an emblematic image that succinctly expresses the struggle between two realities.”
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Bullet Revisited #30
LALLA ESSAYDI, MFA 04 Bullet Revisited #30, 2014, chromogenic print mounted to aluminum with UV lamination, 48 x 60, framed, $24,000 Harem Revisited #51, 2014, chromogenic print mounted to aluminum with UV lamination, 60 x 48, framed, $24,000 Artwork courtesy Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, Houk Gallery, New York, Karen Jenkins-Johnson Gallery, San Francisco, Jackson Fine Art Gallery, Atlanta, Tindouf Gallery, Marrakech, October Gallery, London
Essaydi’s work has been exhibited at the Smithsonian Museum of African Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Her work is represented in numerous collections, including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Hood Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the British National Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the National Gallery of Art, and the Louvre Museum. Her art, which often combines Islamic calligraphy with representations of the female body, addresses Arab female identity’s complex reality from the unique perspective of personal experience. In much of Essaydi’s work, she returns to her Moroccan girlhood, looking back on it as an adult woman caught somewhere between past and present, and as an artist, exploring the language in which to “speak” from this uncertain space. “In my art, I wish to present myself through multiple lenses— as artist, as Moroccan, as traditionalist, as Liberal, as Muslim. In short, I invite viewers to resist stereotypes.”
Harem Revisited #51
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Metropolis 1
Metropolis 1, 2020, ink, gouache acrylic, paper, and cast shadows, 37 x 57, framed, $9,400
Whitman’s work was featured in Katharine Harmon’s book The Map as Art (Princeton Architectural Press, 2009). Her work can be found in the collections of McMullen Museum of Art, Tufts University, the Boston Public Library, IBM, Simmons College, Bank of America, Boston University, the Federal Reserve, JPMorgan Chase, and Fidelity Investments.
Over There, 2020, ink, gouache, acrylic, paper, and cast shadows, 44 x 72, framed, $12,200 Atlantis, 2018, ink, gouache, acrylic, paper, and cast shadows, 39.5 x 59, framed, $9,400 Artwork courtesy of TAG Fine Arts, London
Whitman’s room-sized installation, New World, is currently featured at the Addison Gallery of American Art in Andover, Massachusetts. Other recent exhibitions include TAG Fine Arts, London, the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Christopher Henry Gallery, SCOPE Miami, the Boston Public Library, Carroll and Sons, Boston, the Boston Center for the Arts, Pierogi Gallery, the Boston Drawing Project, Clark University, the Southeastern Louisiana Contemporary 11
Atlantis
Over There
Art Gallery, Boston College, Montserrat College of Art, Wheaton College, Suffolk University, and Harvard College.
“My work is concerned with mental mapping, memory, and the architecture of contemporary cities and ancient ruins. Differing perspectives of skylines and street grids and networks of shadows are important in my invented terrains. Since the beginning of the lockdown, I’ve been working on Tracking, a series of paper and string constructions centering on Dr. John Snow’s 1854 cholera map of London and our current pandemic.”
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HEIDI WHITMAN, STUDIO DIPLOMA 80, FACULTY 83–19
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Dancing Around the Bed 1
Blue Curtain
SAFARANI SISTERS: BAHAREH SAFARANI, MFA 16, AND FARZANEH SAFARANI, MFA 16
Blue Curtain, 2018, oil on panel with video projection, 72 x 48, $18,000 Dancing Around the Bed 1, 2019, oil on canvas with video projection, 30 x 40, $8,500 Reflection, 2019, oil on canvas with video projection, 72 x 40, $19,500
Reflection
Bahareh and Farzaneh Safarani are Iranian collaborator twin visual artists known for their innovative video-painting. The sisters make dramatic compositions of themselves as the subjects to explore the sense of self in relation to the other. A central theme of their work is one of identity—as twins and individuals. The Safarani sisters’ work has been collected by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts. Their work will be featured in an upcoming show at the Morris Museum in New Jersey in 2021.
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Vivas
No Violence
LAURENCE CUELENAERE, MFA 18 Wink, 2019, photograph, 16 x 12, framed, $1,200 Vivas, 2019, photograph, 16 x 12, framed, $1,200 No Violence, 2019, photograph, 12 x 16, framed, $1,200 Cuelenaere was awarded the SMFA Traveling Fellowship in 2019. Her work has been selected for the upcoming show Exposure: The 24th Annual PRC Juried Exhibition. Her writing was recently featured in Trigger / FOMU, a platform for research, in which she reflects on and debates all things photographic. “These black-and-white photos are rephotographed photos or images of photomontages in which I left marks of my interventions—at times, stitched. These marks materially mediate the viewer with the spectrum of the photographs; the objective is to ward off powers that seek to destroy life. They emphasize wounds but also the beauty manifest in the bodies recorded by the camera that could otherwise go unperceived.”
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Wink
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Untitled No. 22
JAMAL THORNE, MFA 12 Untitled No. 22, 2019, acrylic paint and found materials on paper, 18 x 24, $1,500 Untitled No. 25, 2020, acrylic paint and found materials on paper, 24 x 24.5, $2,500 Artwork courtesy Kingston Gallery
Thorne is known for using drawing to investigate and visualize the nature of performed identity. With intricate drawings, he blends references from popular culture, religious iconography, and symbolism to create an image of our multilayered identities.
“Digital media allows us to time travel, and our experience is a composite of what we find and what we see today. My work is an attempt at visualizing this dynamic. As events occur, a layer is composed of tape and paint. As time moves forward and new events occur, a new layer of paint covers the previous layer. While some things from the previous layers are lost, others are preserved and leave impressions on each new layer. The process of cutting into the accumulation of material mimics the act of reclaiming a connection to the past. The finished work is a documentation of this experience. New things happen; some memories are preserved, others get lost.�
Thorne exhibited his work at the James E. Lewis Museum in Baltimore, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Huret and Specter Gallery, Boston. He received the prestigious Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Grant in 2012.
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Untitled No .25
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LAUREL NAKADATE, BFA 98, STUDIO DIPLOMA 99, FACULTY 365 Days: Crying Selfies, 2010–2020, composite grid of 16 images on one sheet, individual photos measure 4 x 4 inches each, sheet measures 21.5 x 21.5, $5,000 Artwork courtesy Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects. This is a special edition of five created for SMFA.
Art critic Jerry Saltz named Nakadate a “standout” in the 2005 Greater New York show at MoMA PS1 in 2005. Since then, Nakadate’s work has been exhibited at the Getty Museum, Los Angeles; the Asia Society, New York; the Reina Sofia, Madrid; the Berlin Biennial; Grand Arts, Kansas City; and Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York. A 10-year retrospective of her work was on view at MoMA PS1 in 2011. Nakadate’s first feature film premiered at the Sundance film festival; her second feature film was nominated for a Gotham Award and an Independent Spirit Award. Recent projects include Strangers and Relations and The Kingdom, first exhibited at Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects. Strangers and Relations traveled to the Des Moines Art Center, the Art Museum at the University of Kentucky, and The University of
the South, Sewanee, Tennessee; The Kingdom was exhibited at Galerie Tanja Wagner, Berlin. Most recently, Nakadate, together with Leslie Tonkonow, curated the group show MOTHER, which was named one of the best art shows of 2018 by New York magazine. “When I first performed 365 Days, 10 years ago, I wasn’t seeing large expressions of sadness, grief, or unhappiness on social media platforms. What I was seeing was wellmanaged, happy reports of lives well lived. I wanted to make something messy, raw, and emotional. I wanted to say the thing that many were feeling. I hoped the performance of crying every day would create a space to speak about sadness. Each day of 2020, I have posted a digital reperformance to the Instagram handle @365_tears, made through rephotographing the original photographs, allowing light, reflections, and shadows to interact with the original images. As the performance evolved, it became clear that these new images had their own lives. They departed from the originals and became something nuanced and layered in ways I couldn’t have fully anticipated; I realized that I wanted to choose some of the images to once again live as photographic prints.”
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DANIEL RICH, MFA 04 Lamma Island, Hong Kong, acrylic on Dibond, 13 x 16, $2,000 Artwork courtesy Miles McEnery Gallery
Rich is a German artist who currently lives and works in Berlin. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including a Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation Studio Grant and a New York Foundation for the Arts Grant for painting. Recent projects include solo presentations at Miles McEnery Gallery, 2020, and J.B. Institute, 2020. His work has been featured in Le Petit Voyeur, Copenhagen, and Studio Magazine, Milan. As an SMFA Traveling Fellow Rich traveled to Hong Kong in 2015 to explore the city’s rich architectural environment and create source material for future paintings. His work investigates how Hong Kong’s unique past and current status as a special economic zone within the People’s Republic of China’s borders are transcribed in its built environment. The lonesome, modernist-style lifeguard tower located on Lamma Island stood in sharp contrast to the massive urban density, located just a couple of miles away, on Hong Kong Island and in Kowloon.
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HELINA METAFARIA, MFA 15 Headdress 5, 2019, mixed-media collage, 39 x 21, $4,500 Metafaria was awarded the SMFA Traveling Fellowship, which earned her the upcoming exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 2021. Her current solo exhibition at Northeastern University Art Gallery will travel to Auburn University Art Gallery in November of this year. “This collage is part of the By Way of Revolution series, which addresses the inherited histories of protest that inform contemporary social movements. I facilitate performance as protest and resiliency workshops designed for women of color nationally at various institutions. Select participants are photographed as relics of these experiences, and their images are combined with archives of protest histories in the form of collage.�
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Chiral Drawing, one commission available, $20,000 Perry committed to producing one chiral drawing commission for this year’s SMFA Art Sale. Fifty percent of the commission will be donated to SMFA. Perry’s work is held in numerous museums and private collections around the world, including the Museum of Fine Arts and the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, the Baltimore Museum of Art, and the List Visual Arts Center at MIT. Born in Tokyo, Perry is the recipient of several fellowships and residencies, including the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, ArtOmi, and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. She is a three-time recipient of the Massachusetts Cultural Council Award for Excellence and was a finalist for the Foster Prize at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. Her solo exhibitions include the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Yancey Richardson Gallery, and the Barbara Krakow Gallery. Her first solo museum show, 24/7, at the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, subsequently traveled to the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University.
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RACHEL PERRY, STUDIO DIPLOMA 00, FIFTH YEAR CERTIFICATE 01
Falling Sighs
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Displaced II Not All Alike V
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YU-WEN WU, STUDIO DIPLOMA 87 Falling Sighs, 2020, gold ink, gold leaf on Strathmore paper, 29 x 22, framed, $5,500 Displaced II, 2020, sumi ink, rice paper, gold ink on Duralar, 11 x 14, framed, $2,400 Not All Alike V, 2020, gilded tea leaves, gold leaf on Duralar, 40 x 40, framed, $8,500 Wu is an interdisciplinary artist living in Boston. Born in Taipei, Taiwan, Wu’s subjectivity as an immigrant is central to her art. She arrived in the United States at an early age, and her experiences have shaped her work in areas of migration— examining issues of displacement, arrival, assimilation,
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and the shape of identity in a new country. At the crossroads of art, science, politics, and social issues, her projects include large-scale drawings, site-specific video installations, community-engaged practices, and public art. This year, the Greenway Conservancy commissioned Wu for her lantern installation at Chin Park in Boston’s Chinatown. She received the inaugural Prilla Smith Brackett Award in 2019 and a Brother Thomas Fellowship in 2017. Her work is in the collections of Dana Farber Institute; Haslla Museum of Art, Gangneung, Korea; the Danforth Museum at Framingham State University; the Davis Museum of Art at Wellesley College; Harvard Business School; and the Weisman Art Museum.
Wise Owl
Cat Spirit
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White Stag #2 Jade Rabbit #2
Buck
AMY ROSS, STUDIO DIPLOMA 00 Wise Owl, 2020, graphite and charcoal on paper, 22 x 30, $3,000 Buck, 2020, graphite and charcoal on paper, 30 x 22, $2,700 White Stag #2, 2020, graphite and charcoal on paper, 30 x 22, $3,000 Cat Spirit, 2020, graphite and charcoal on paper, 25 x 20, $2,700 Jade Rabbit #2, 2020, graphite and charcoal on paper, 22 x 30, $3,000 Artwork courtesy Clark Gallery, Lincoln, Massachusetts
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JIM DOW, FACULTY Café at Night. US 90, Orange, TX 1975, black-and-white inkjet print on archival paper from scanned 8 x 10 negative, 16 x 20, $3,000 Artwork courtesy Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, and Janet Borden Inc., New York
Dow taught at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts from 1973 to 2019. He retired to devote his time to organizing and preparing five decades of photographic and teaching materials for acquisition by the Rubinstein Rare Book Library at Duke University. He is represented by Robert Klein Gallery in Boston, MA and Janet Borden, Inc. in Brooklyn, NY.
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“Dow is a really nice guy. I suspect it is his kindness, in part, that enables him to get access to uncommon spaces, and that his open demeanor contributes to his tendency to notice nooks and crannies, the unsung areas that we might otherwise pass without a second thought. His appreciation for the sights of everyday life, and the large-format camera he uses to capture its detail, encourage us to be more attentive to the world around us.” —Mazie Harris, from UNSEEN: 35 Years of Collecting Photographs at the Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA
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DOUG AND MIKE STARN, STUDIO DIPLOMA nomdes, 2012, archival inkjet prints on Gampi paper and varnish, 64 x 86 inches, unique, $80,000 “The Starns, who transmit a concentrated and quiet but highly charged energy, have been making art collaboratively as long as they can remember. And, the phenomenon of being identical twins—connected through biology, memory, and imagination—suffuses their artistic ideas. … When they entered the art scene in the 1980s, they became known for collage-like photographic mosaics constructed from roughly cut or torn images, … which they printed on silver gelatin papers, soaked in toner, and joined together with Scotch Tape. The work explores a theory of vision as something comprehended through perception. Gestural and raw, it is also delicately layered and has served as a foundation for everything they’ve done since. In fact, they talk about their art as a rhizomatic structure: ‘always finished, but never complete,’ ideas translating project to project, regardless of medium or material.” —Frances Brent, Modern Magazine
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ANTHONY PEYTON YOUNG, MFA 17 Say Her Name: Breonna Taylor, March 13, 2020, 2020, collaged drawing, 10 x 8, $600
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TARA DONOVAN Untitled (from Rubber Band Matrix), 2006, ink on Kozo-shi paper, unique, 56 x 45.5, framed, signed and dated lower right in graphite, $32,000 Artwork courtesy Krakow Witkin Gallery
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Cultivation Common Root
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What’re We To Do
GERRY BERGSTEIN, PROFESSOR EMERITUS, BFA 64, MFA 71 Cultivation, 2020, oil on rag board, 22 x 8, $3,000, 75% donation Artwork courtesy Gallery Naga
WILAMINA HEIFNER, BFA 21 Common Root (black German Sheppard and the pink Ibizan Hound), 2019, ceramic sculpture, 18 x 18 x 18, $800 LILY OLIVER, BFA 21 What’re We To Do, 2018, digital photography, 13 x 19, unframed, $300
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Love Hangover
Ha Ha Ha
TARA LEWIS, MAT 94–96 Ha Ha Ha, 2019, oil on Belgian linen, 60 x 48, $15,000 Love Hangover, 2020, oil on canvas, 48 x 36, $12,000, 75% donation As If, 2019, oil on canvas, 30 x 24, $7,000 “I paint portraits that examine pop culture anthropology and the human spirit. Prompted by youth culture and the evolving perceptions of identity, stereotypes, social issues, and selfawareness, my paintings invite open-ended conversations and diverse interpretations. My paintings portray real-life subjects, adorned with incongruous props: artist-made T-shirts, trophies, and satin pageant sashes boasting pop culture text idioms.”
As If
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Modern Hustle
CODY JUSTUS, MFA 14 Modern Hustle, acrylic, graphite, and marker on linen mounted on vintage upholstery fabric, 20 x 16, $2,500 SUSAN BELTON, FACULTY Howell, Hop, Happy To Serve, oil on mylar on shaped PVC, 9 x 9.5, $1,200
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Howell, Hop, Happy To Serve
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From top to bottom, left to right: Ocula, Splice, Unwinding, Blesso Ploison
JUDITH LARSEN, BFA 73, MFA 76 Ocula, 2006, archival iris print on paper, 32 x 39, $7,500, and a smaller version, 18 x 22, $3,500 Splice, 2003, archival print on paper, 18 x 22, $3,000 (two editions available) Unwinding, 2008, archival print on paper, 33 x 44, $7,500 (two editions available) Blesso Plosion, 2020, archival print on paper, 4 x 5 feet, $3,500 Artwork courtesy iartcolony, Rockport, Massachusetts, and Artforum Newgate Gallery, Seoul 30
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MARLA MCCLEOD, MFA 20 Sadé (Chadé), 2020, oil on canvas, 42 x 48, $4,500
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ANGELINA GUALDONI, FACULTY Intervals, 2015, oil on canvas, 28 x 24, $2,000, 75% donation Artwork courtesy Asya Geisberg Gallery
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Two Afternoons Look At You
ALICIA RODRIGUEZ ALVISA, BFA 18 Two Afternoons, archival inkjet print, 24 x 36, $1,800 Look At You, archival inkjet print, 24 x 36, $1,800 You Are There, Are you there?, There You Are, 2017, archival inkjet print, 24 x 36, $3,500 Artwork courtesy Gallery Kayafas All works are unframed. Images from this series were featured in The New Yorker, 2019.
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Alvisa was born and raised in Havana, Cuba. At 18, she left Havana to attend SMFA at Tufts, where she received a BFA. Alvisa started this series in 2017, at a time when she was applying for a visa to stay and work in the United States, and was feeling homesick and lonely. “The photos are part of a series that I started in 2017 to explore my own insecurities, identity, and self-love. After a few years of making these pictures, they have become an homage to every womxn. Every womxn who, no matter what they’re going through, plays the sister, the daughter, the mother, the fairy, the role model, the angel in their own lives.”
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You Are There, Are you there?, There You Are
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Cover Boys I
Studio Shot
Ride in the Park
COBI MOULES, MFA 10 Cover Boys l, 2015, oil on canvas panel, 11 x 16, $3,000 Studio Shot, 2015, oil on canvas panel, 11 x 15, $3,000 Ride in the Park, 2016, oil on canvas panel, 8 x 11, $2,600 Artwork courtesy Carroll and Sons Gallery, Boston, and Kasper Contemporary, New York
Moules’ work was recently acquired by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Recent solo shows include Let’s Get Physical at Carroll and Sons Gallery, Boston, 2020; Bois Just Wanna Have Fun at Samek Museum, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, 2019; and That’s All They Really Want, Lyons Wier Gallery, New York, 2018.
“Through the re-creation and alteration of New Kids on the Block posters, I delve into my childhood obsession and reclaim my unrealized queer boyhood fantasies. This reclamation is especially important as it takes inventory of my youthful desires and reconstructs them with empowered hindsight. Being queer and transgender, my adolescence was overwhelmed with denial and shame. It was a time when instincts regarding gender and sexuality were not to be trusted, and the replication of those around me drove behavior. Internal fantasies became the place where I quietly navigated queer relationships. This work explores those queer desires, moving between love, lust, and male friendship. By stripping Danny from the scenes and inserting myself into their world, I become the new kid I desired.”
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DAVID FLICKER BROWN, MFA 13 Duomo Firenze Plaid B A2, photograph mounted on aluminum, 50 x 50, $5,000
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MARLON FORRESTER, BFA 08 Melanin, 2012, digital print, 20 x 24, unframed, $850
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Cat Dancing
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Ode to L.A. #8
CARL VESTWEBER, MFA 13 Cat Dancing, 2018, collage, 11 x 14, framed, $450 MAYA ERDELYI, FACULTY Ode to L.A. #8, 3-D collage, cutout paper, pins, 7 x 7 x 3.5, $1,500 Artwork courtesy Mills Gallery
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Rockport Quarry #1 (summer)
By the Bay
ASHLEY WOOD, MFA 13 Rockport Quarry #1 (summer), 2018, digital collage, 48 x 36, unframed, $700 LAURA FISCHMAN, MFA 13, CURRENT FACULTY By the Bay, 2019, 20 x 16, $1,200
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Iceberg Series No. 9
CASSANDRA KLOSS, BFA 14 Under the Spanish Moss, Slidell, Louisiana, photograph, 40 x 32, framed, $1,450 MAGS HARRIES, FACULTY Iceberg Series, No. 9, cast urethane resin, steel, paint, 7 x 7 x 4, $2,900 Artwork courtesy Gallery Kayafas and Boston Sculptors
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Under the Spanish Moss
4 Elements
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Green Machine
SETH MINKIN, MFA 96 4 Elements, 2019, oil on canvas, 40 x 30, $10,500 Green Machine, 2019, oil on canvas, 48 x 48, $18,500 Volcano, 2019, oil on canvas, 40 x 30, $10,500 Paintings change color intensity based on ambient temperature and light exposure.
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Volcano
Peacocking
KATRINA MAJKUT, POST-BACC CERTIFICATE 08, MFA 13 Peacocking, 2016/2012, oil on canvas, 50 x 72, $6,000
LORIE HAMERMESH, STUDIO DIPLOMA 85, FIFTH YEAR CERTIFICATE 86 Anxiety, layered monoprint, chine collie with vintage wallpaper, dry point, and carborundum, 16 x 16, $3,500, 100% donation
Anxiety
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Always We Go
CAROL DAYNARD, STUDIO DIPLOMA 09 Three Graces, oil stick on canvas, 30 x 24, $625, 100% donation KARMIMADEEBORA MCMILLAN, MFA 13, FACULTY Always We Go, 2013, acrylic and collage on canvas, 54 x 58, $10,000 MAGGIE BROWN, STUDIO DIPLOMA 82, FIFTH YEAR CERTIFICATE 83 Ain’t No Sunshine, oil stick on paper, 21 x 23, $2,100
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Ain’t No Sunshine
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Three Graces
Stratum: Stereo
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Poison Ivy
Stratum: Optic
TIMOTHY KADISH, STUDIO DIPLOMA 06, FIFTH YEAR CERTIFICATE 07 Stratum: Stereo, 2020, oil on linen on wood, 48 x 52, $8,800 Poison Ivy, 2018, acrylic on aluminum, 36 x 48, $6,200 Stratum: Optic, 2020, acrylic on canvas, 40 x 60, $8,400
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Karmic Universe in Turquoise
Passage of the Storm
LINDSEY KOCUR, MFA 13 Passage of the Storm, acrylic and ink on canvas, 22 x 32, $1,500 LORI SCHOUELA, STUDIO DIPLOMA 09 Karmic Universe in Turquoise, rose petal print on 100 percent cotton archival paper, limited edition, signed by the artist, 30 x 30, $2,400
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Hopes and Dreams
JO ANN ROTHSCHILD, MFA 80 Hopes and Dreams, 2020, ink, watercolor, acrylic, crayon, colored pencil, oil stick, graphite on tan BFK paper, 30 x 44, $2,500, 100% donation
Queer Monument
Artwork courtesy The Painting Center, New York, and HallSpace, Boston
EMILY LOMBARDO, MFA 13 Queer Monument: Trancestor, lithograph with paint, 30 x 22, $4,800 Artwork courtesy Childs Gallery
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Copper Creek Falls, Idaho
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espiritual
Portrait 6, after Delacroix’s Reclining Odalisque
SAND T. KALLOCH, MFA 97 Copper Creek Falls, Idaho, mixed media on wood, 30 x 30 x 2.25, $4,900
RYAN MCMAHON, MFA 15 espiritual, photography, 20 x 30, framed, $2,300 DINORA JUSTICE, MFA 14 Portrait 6, after Delacroix’s Reclining Odalisque, oil painting and acrylic hand-marbling on canvas, 38 x 52, $10,000 Artwork courtesy Gallery NAGA 47
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CH-1-4
CHUCK HOLTZMAN, STUDIO DIPLOMA 73
Intersection No. 2 & No. 3
CH-1-4 ,1993, intaglio, hard ground sugar lift on aquatint, 35 x 25, $2,000 Artwork courtesy Victoria Munroe Fine Art
DANIELA RIVERO Intersection No. 2 & No. 3, 2018, screenprint on paper, 31.5 x 41, $2,000
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JOO LEE KANG, MFA 11 Wreath #4, 2017, pen on paper, 31 x 31, framed, $4,800 Artwork courtesy Gallery NAGA
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Elliott Smith, Heatmiser promo photo, Portland, OR, 1993
JJ GONSON, BSED 91
Soft
Elliott Smith, Heatmiser promo photo, Portland, OR, 1993, 11 x 14, unframed, $500 Artwork courtesy Morrison Hotel Gallery
CHRIS MALIGA, STAFF Soft, gelatin silver print, 20 x 24, $1,000
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dissolving
re-emerging
Across the Bay
LINDA PAGANI, STUDIO DIPLOMA 13 dissolving, 2020, archival pigment print, 18 x 12, edition 7, framed, $1,400 re-emerging, 2020, archival pigment print, 18 x 12, edition 7, framed, $1,400
RUSSELL DUPONT, ATTENDED 87 Across the Bay, 2020, 8.5 x 18 archival inkjet print on Canon semi-gloss paper, 13 x 19, unframed, $500
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Eye of David
Menil Collection
Circe’s Powers
TIM MCCOOL, MFA 13 Menil Collection, 2020, acrylic on canvas, 40 x 30, $3,200 PAWEL SALCEDO, BFA 15 Eye of David, 2019, acrylic on panel, 24 x 24, $2,400 KAREN MOSS, MFA 74 Circe’s Powers, acrylic and acetate collage, 22 x 30, $2,900
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JUAN TRAVIESO, MFA 13 Last Encounter, oil and acrylic on panel, 20 x 16, $4,200
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ART SALE COMMITTEE
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