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Intersections: Artistic Dialogues in Boston’s Graduate Fine Arts Community
The Piano Craft Gallery is pleased to present:
Intersections: Artistic Dialogues in Boston’s Graduate Fine Arts Community
Curated by: Kamal Ahmad
June 2, 2023 through July 3, 2023
Opening Reception: Saturday June 3, 2023 5-8PM
Open gallery hours weekly:
Fridays 6pm - 8pm, Saturdays Noon - 5pm, Sundays Noon - 5pm
A groundbreaking collaborative exhibition, Intersections: Artistic Dialogues in Boston’s Graduate Fine Arts Community, brings together unique artworks of graduate students and newly minted masters of fine art from Boston. Over 45 participating visual artists from the classes of 2023 and 2024 represent the fine art graduate programs from Boston University’s School of Visual Arts, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, Lesley University, and Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Showing works in painting, drawing, sculpture, print media, and installation, this group proudly shows the vital cross-section of the Boston area arts community engaged in studying art at the graduate level – its discourses, methodologies, and possibilities.
Intersections is the third collaborative event held during the 2022-2023 academic year. Last September, students and faculty across studio art disciplines gathered in the 808 Gallery at Boston University’s College of Fine Arts to introduce themselves and get to know each other. In March of this year, Lesley University’s low residency MFA program hosted a PechaKucha event, in which students shared a single work in a pop-up exhibition to generate conversation. Creative community and fellowship are essential to an artist’s life, as it’s not an easy or predictable path. As Faculty, we feel that our students should have the opportunity to get to know their peers at neighboring institutions.
Curator Kamal Ahmad visited the studios of each of the artists in the exhibition. A multidisciplinary artist himself, working in painting, video, and print media, he holds MFA degrees from Boston University (Painting, 2016) and MassArt (2019) and embodies the inter-institutional and interdisciplinary spirit of this exhibition.
Boston University’s School of Visual Arts is happy to extend its yearly summer exhibition partnership with Piano Craft Gallery by welcoming students from neighboring institutions in Boston. BU SVA Director Dana Clancy notes, “This exhibition is the culmination of a year of in person connective community events between studio MFA programs in Boston. As such, it represents the excellent work of impactful graduate art programs in the city, which draw students from many regions in the US and the world and change the fabric of Boston arts for the better. Josephine Halvorson often speaks of the power of proximity, and in bringing these artists together side by side and in dialogue we hope new relationships will endure beyond this locale.”
This collaboration between schools echoes the collaborative spirit of Boston Young Contemporaries (BYC), a New England MFA juried exhibition, formerly hosted by Boston University from 2006-2018 when gallery renovations and the ensuing pandemic paused it. By welcoming all students who wish to participate, Intersections: Artistic Dialogues in Boston’s Graduate Fine Arts Community is an inclusive and contemporary approach to a large inter-institutional group exhibition.
Josephine Halvorson, Professor of Art and Chair of Graduate Studies in Painting at Boston University’s College of Fine Arts
MFA Programs represented:
Boston University MFA Painting
Boston University MFA Sculpture
Boston University MFA Print Media & Photography
Lesley Art & Design’s MFA in Visual Arts
MFA in Interdisciplinary Studio Art at SMFA at Tufts University
Massachusetts College of Art and Design - 2D
Massachusetts College of Art and Design - 3D
Participating artists include:
Abbi Kenny
Adrian Johnston
Alyssa Grey
Ava Xu
Catherine LeComte
Cody Bluett
Danielle Richard
Dara Morgenstern
Darci Hanna
Davit Botch
Delaney Burns
Ellen Weitkamp
Emily Rice
Faith Baum
Hadis Karami
Huakai (Sebastian) Chen
Jacob Salzer
Julia McGehean
Katalina Simon
Leah Naxon
Lindo Obobaifo
Mae-Chu O'Connell
Magda León
Megan Arné
Pardis Alipour
Patrick Brennan
Ran He
Ry Beloin
Sakshi Doshi
Sayak Mitra
Sharon Stanczak
Sidharth Shah
Sohyoung Park
Sophie Thervil
Stephanie Petet
Stephanie Williams
Téa Chai Beer
Yana Nosenko
Yingxue (Daisy) Li
Yolanda Yang
Yukai Chen
Zo Watts