SMFA Highlights
Lecturer Michael MacMahon, MFA '14, is having a solo exhibition entitled Wrack Line at the Umbrella Arts Center in Concord, MA. It runs from September 23 - October 31. The closing reception will be held on Saturday, October 30 from 6-8 pm.
Marlon Forrester, BFA ‘08, is one of two 2021 recipients of the Cantabrigia Award which provides editorial and design support to realize proposed publication projects. Forrester's proposed publication If Black Saints Could Fly 23 explores ideas of transformation and ritual as it continues Forrester's ongoing artistic interventions around the meditation of the Black male figure in the Americas.
Marla McLeod, MFA '20, is featured in We the People (Our Love Will See Us Through), a solo exhibition at the Kniznick Gallery at Brandeis University that touches on the diversity of McLeod’s practice, juxtaposing larger-than-life portrait painting with handmade textiles and garments.
Lecturer Samantha Fields, MFA '05, is featured in the In Place exhibition at the University Hall Gallery at UMass Boston through November 7.
Professor of the Practice Danielle Abrams' article They Gave Us a Beach: The memory of a Black beach on Lake Pontchartrain has been published in the Fall 2021 issue of 64 Parishes, a project of the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities.
Professor of the Practice Ethan Murrow's solo museum show The Greenhouse is up through September 18 at the Cahoon Museum in Cotuit, MA. It features a panoramic wall drawing inspired by old growth forests that once existed on Cape Cod. A WGBH interview with Ethan Murrow discussing The Greenhouse is available here.
The exhibition (Re)Sisters: Speaking Up, Speaking Out at the Brickbottom Gallery in Somerville is curated by MAT Program Lecturer Pamela Bower-Basso and Caitlin Doering, BA '07, and includes work by Thalia Berard, MFA '19, Willoughby Lucas Hastings, MFA '19, and Azita Moradkhani, MAT '13 and MFA '15. This exhibition is meant to bring attention to the recent resurgence in feminist art and its connection to activism and politics.
Professor of the Practice Ethan Murrow's solo show Pollen Song opened at Galerie les Filles du Calvaire in Paris on September 4. It includes 16 new drawings exploring agricultural fragility and fantasies. Arts in the City Magazine (Paris) described the show as "spicy like a rosebush, invigorating like photosynthesis."
Professor of the Practice Ethan Murrow's solo show The Riparian Lovers opens at the Winston Wachter gallery in Seattle on October 4. The show includes new drawings as well as a massive wall drawing.
Lecturer Anthony Hamboussi is participating in the Dos Mundos: (Re)Constructing Narratives exhibition through October 16 at the SUNY Stony Brook University Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery. Dos Mundos: (Re)Constructing Narratives features twelve artists that center stories at the fringe of public attention.
Lecturer Lizi Brown's virtual exhibition Growth Spurts, Knobs, and Knuckles: An Environment of Trees is available on the Arnold Arboretum's website through October 24. The show is a fundraiser for the Massachusetts Breast Cancer Coalition. For more information, visit Lizi Brown's website.
Professor of the Practice Charles Goss, MFA '76, will be having a solo show at Nesto Gallery, Milton Academy from September 23 - October 29. This exhibition will serve as a mini-retrospective of the last 45 years of Charles’s work in sculpture, painting, drawing, installation, film-making, writing, and photography, including new pieces reacting and responding to his recent Covid Cave Series as well as the premiere of his film Everything I Don’t Know.