Last Week to See ‘Full Count’ by Ben Evans at Gallery NAGA

Ben Evans, Fine Arts 2011, presents his second major exhibition ‘Full Count’ at Gallery NAGA. Ben’s immersive installation charts the career of fictional baseball player Benny Cobb. Through this character notions of masculinity and the complexities of love are explored.

Navigating relationships is also a theme found in Benjamin Evans’ work. A recent graduate of New England School of Art and Design at Suffolk University, Evans incorporates found materials, film, and photography to mediate the concepts of love, sex, and virility. For his installation at NAGA, Evans explores the idea of how the game of baseball can be used to reflect on the concept of virility and relationships in a sexualized world. Evans constructs a baseball-themed environment installation to tell the story of the fictional rising star for the New Berry Roosters, Benny Cobb. Full Press Release

‘Full Count’ is on view at Gallery NAGA, 67 Newbury St, through February 1st.

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Photography Exhibit & Conference at Suffolk’s Adam’s Gallery

591The Mirror of Race: Seeing Ourselves through History, a photography exhibit that challenges viewers to think about what they see when they reflect on images from an earlier time, continues at the Adams Gallery through February 25.

The exhibit includes daguerreotypes, tintypes, ambrotypes and other forms of early photography as well as prints from tintypes made by an Air National Guardsman deployed to Afghanistan. Ed Drew’s modern-day tintypes are believed to be the first battle-zone photographs using this method since the American Civil War.

Philosophy Professor Gregory Fried, who curated the exhibit, has long been engaged in the Mirror of Race project, which encourages people to “reexamine how they see others and themselves” as they explore an online exhibition of historical American photographs. Originals of many of these images are included in the exhibit.

The Suffolk community is invited to attend a A Mirror of Race conference on Friday, January 31, in the first-floor function room, Sargent Hall. The conference will include speakers on the history of race and photography and on how narrative forms our identity.

The event is free and open to the public. Registration is required if you plan to attend the luncheon.

Reminder – Call for Submissions, Deadline 1/21

The Gallery Committee is seeking a broad range of artwork to be sold or leased to Suffolk University, that represents all aspects of NESAD & Suffolk University’s diverse community. Work will be selected for display in the Law School and Tremont Street buildings.

Deadline: Tuesday, January 21, 2014

  • Please send jpg images to jfuchel@aol.com & jfuchel@suffolk.edu
  • Images should be at least 1200 pixels in one dimension. Files should be under 10 mb.
  • IMPORTANT: File name format = lastname_dimensions_title.jpg – for example, Fuchel_24x36_Untitled.jpg
  • Maximum submission: 7 pieces

Include the following:

  • Your Name
  • Contact Information (phone and email)
  • Short description – i.e. title, media, dimensions, date

Suffolk University Career Event – 1/14

Suffolk University alumni association is hosting a terrific series of career events for 2014. Learn strategies for creating a personal network to help achieve your career goals with: 

Creating Your Personal Advisory Group

Tuesday, January 14, 2014
5:30-7:30pm
73 Tremont St, 1st floor

Facilitators:
Paul Tanklefsky, Director of Career Services and Cooperative Education, Suffolk University
Vanecia Harrison-Sanders, Independent Career Advisory

Light appetizers will be served along with a cash bar.
RSVP

Follow the entire Inspired Career Series on Twitter: #SuffolkICS

Questions? Contact Tramaine Weekes at Tweekes@suffolk.edu

From Paper to Pixels App Workshop 1/14 – CANCELLED

Stay tuned for details about the rescheduled workshop.

As part of the From Paper to Pixels Aaron Artessa, Art Director at Infrared5, will give a workshop on mobile/web application design on January 14 from 12:40-2:30 p.m. Alumni are welcome to attend. RSVP to Deborah Davidson, ddavidson@suffolk.edu.

Workshop Description:

In this workshop, Aaron Artessa, Art Director at Infrared5 will describe the steps taken to create an application for mobile/ web. Students will learn what UI/UX design is and how to approach a project. In addition, participants will be given the opportunity to work on a practical application together as a group and then break up into smaller teams to create work as if to present to a client. Students will take away a practical application of the skills and understand how planning is just as important as execution.

Aaron Artessa – Art Director, Infrared5:

With a BFA in Illustration from the University of the Arts Philadelphia, Aaron seamlessly shifts between numerous projects adding a dash of creative genius to everything he works on. A former book and magazine illustrator, he now designs original game UI and levels for titles like Hasbro: Game of Life Zapped Edition, Wheel of Fortune and Rock Band Blitz. When not hard at work in the Creative department, Aaron spends his time doing modeling, digital painting, working on games or completing improvements on his 100 year old house.

Looking for an summer activity for your teen?

Consider enrolling your sophomore, junior, senior or entering college freshman in our  5 week Pre-College Summer Program.

For over ten years, our Pre-College Summer Program has provided students with a supportive environment in which to improve their skills and work in a wide variety of mediums. Students develop projects in Drawing, 2D Design, Painting and 3D Design – a range of projects meant to foster creativity and mirror the foundation studio experience of a college freshman.

July 8- August 7, 2014
Tuesday through Thursday
Cost: $1240.00
Discounted gift rate of $1215.00 for Pre-College registrations postmarked by December 31, 2013. Register Now!

Students who successfully complete the program will have an opportunity to apply for a portfolio waiver for admission to one of Suffolk’s BFA programs in Fine Arts, Graphic Design, Illustration or Interior Design

 

Call for Submissions

The Gallery Committee is seeking a broad range of artwork to be sold or leased to Suffolk University, that represents all aspects of NESAD & Suffolk University’s diverse community. Work will be selected for display in the Law School and Tremont Street buildings.

Note: Artworks with religious overtones, nudity or profanity should be avoided because they will be exhibited in public spaces.

Deadline: Tuesday, January 21, 2014

  • Please send jpg images to jfuchel@aol.com & jfuchel@suffolk.edu
  • Images should be at least 1200 pixels in one dimension. Files should be under 10 mb.
  • IMPORTANT: File name format = lastname_dimensions_title.jpg – for example, Fuchel_24x36_Untitled.jpg
  • Maximum submission: 7 pieces

Include the following:

  • Your Name
  • Contact Information (phone and email)
  • Short description – i.e. title, media, dimensions, date
  • Indicate any special handling instructions or requirements

Please consider taking advantage of this opportunity.

Opening Reception – Thursday, November 21

PapertoPixels

From Paper to Pixels

Collaboration + Art + Interactivity 

An exhibition presented in collaboration with Infrared5

November 18, 2013 – January 17, 2014

Opening Event: Thursday, November 21, 5:00 – 7:00 p.m. 

Suffolk University Gallery is pleased to present the exhibit From Paper to Pixels, and to be collaborating with Infrared5 CEO Rebecca Smith Allen, who first organized the exhibit.  This exhibition creates the opportunity for collaboration between traditional and new media artists.  

From Paper to Pixels pairs creative people together, to be inspired and invent new masterpieces. The results of these pairings are smart, funny, delightful. The exhibit invites the viewer to participate – to play with art, dance with characters, touch paintings to make music, interact with sculptures and make the art come alive. 

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Gallery Hours:

Monday – Friday 8:30 a.m. – 8:30 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday 12:00 – 5:00 p.m. 
Hours during semester break (12/13-1/12):
Monday – Friday 8:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Closed during University holidays:
November 26 – December 1 &  December 23 – January 2 
 

 

Image: Anna Kristina Goransson + Rob Gonsalves “Lightdrop Encounters”

Catalyst Conversations – Monday, November 18th

Join Suffolk University Gallery Director Deborah Davidson at the Bartos Theatre at MIT’s List Visual Arts Center Monday, November 18th for the latest installation of her Catalyst Conversations series.

MIT List Visual Arts Center, Bartos Theatre
MIT Bartos Theater is located on the ground floor of the Wiesner Building on the MIT campus at 20 Ames Street Building E15. The Wiesner Building is found on the eastern edge of the MIT Campus. 

Monday, November 18, 2013 6-7 p.m.
Reception to follow
Hayden, Reference, and Bakalar Galleries will be open for Chris Marker: Guillaume-en-Égypte

Nature, State of the World, Human Impact:
In her recent work, Eve Andrée Laramée speculates on how human beings use and misuse the natural environment. Her artwork investigates the environmental and health impacts of atomic legacy sites. Through tracking the invisible traces left behind by the nuclear weapons complex and its “peaceful” dopplegänger, the nuclear energy industry, her work archives our shared atomic legacy.

Ronald Eastman is compelled by the search for patterns in Earth observation data. Geographic Information Science can be defined as the field of study concerned with the process of acquiring information from data that are arrayed in space and time. Traditionally, geographers have relied on simple analogues – maps that mimic the physical manifestation of phenomena, but which provide a scale and selective portrayal that facilitates the search for pattern. Current computational and graphical technology, however, allows enormous flexibility in exploring new avenues in the search for pattern.

http://www.catalystconversations.net/events/