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