Field Visions explores the possibilities of landscape – specifically, how abstraction, metaphor, and materiality are leveraged to open up these possibilities, and in doing so, render nature into an abstraction that becomes landscape. While each artist propels their unique poetic visions through an established genre, they also push material and the fiction outward, tree-like, proving that the field of landscape painting is not only pliable but expansive, and imagination is constantly unfolding and inventing new spaces.

In Dreamscapes: Finding the Light Through Immersive Design, Boston-based artist and filmmaker Jaina Cipriano constructs emotive and enveloping experiences for viewers with her installations and photographs. Through illusionistic set designs – devoid of any digital manipulation – Cipriano’s work wrestles with themes of trauma, grief, and self-discovery. She curates herself and others within her immersive installations, ultimately capturing photographs of raw, intimate moments that embody her thematic reflection. Exhibited alongside her set designs, her photographs capture moments of stillness within the surrounding chaos.

As a visionary artist, a cultural pioneer, and innovative designer, Cey Adams personifies the New York City hustle. A graffiti and design legend, Adams honed his art skills painting the streets and trains of NYC in the late 1970’s before moving downtown where the street art was leaking into the city’s high-end galleries. Like his pop art contemporaries of the time, Adams understood the power of images, media and advertising, a position that left him uniquely suited to give visual life to a new movement called Hip-Hop.

CEY ADAMS, DEPARTURE: 40 Years of Art and Design examines Adams’ more than four decades of work which spans everything from graffiti to designing album covers, t-shirts and posters for some of Hip-Hop’s foundational acts, and his expanding commercial collaborations with global brands. With a return to his roots more than a decade ago, Adams has explored his evolving art through fine art and mixed media collages that evoke nostalgia while looking deeper into an Americana that is effortlessly authentic.

Tago ng Tago (always hiding) or TNT is a term coined for Filipinos abroad who are in hiding – from the government authorities or ill-whistlers, due to expired work visas, undocumented status, and overstaying in a country. “TNT immigrants” is an identity given to Filipinos who live unauthorized and have to conceal their immigration status.

Hidden and Hiding reclaims the phrase Tago ng Tago as a state of being and protection to Filipinos and Filipino-Americans across the globe. Artist Bhen Alan explores the theme of protection, the exhibiting works hide and camouflage figures, portraits, signifiers, and cultural codes through weaving, colors, patterns, and assemblage. This strategy protects the images, representation, culture from being trafficked, overly consumed, misrepresented, and exploited.

Alan is employing protection strategies as a way of survival. Looking at the values of TNT immigrants of reconstructing identity and identification for social mobility, survival, and resilience to become visible without being removed from spaces, these values inspired the works to reconstruct the boundaries of weaving and painting and vice versa. It becomes fluid to take different shapes and forms as it camouflages to structures, textures, colors, and patterns.

The Mathemalchemy project became in 2020 an exciting collaborative enterprise, driven by the energy and enthusiasm of twenty-four mathematical artists and artistic mathematicians including BU’s Research Assistant Professor, Dr. Li-Mei Lim. After more than a year of meeting only remotely and fabricating components in their separate locations, they met in the summer of 2021 and built a large multimedia art installation that celebrates the creativity and beauty of mathematics.

Comics is a Medium is exhibition debunking the myths that are just for kids and only about superheroes. Comics manipulate meaning by changing the two fundamental components: words and pictures. Comics change them by merging them into one unit that manipulates the meaning of words by adding pictures and vice versa. Makers and scholars of comics know Comics are a vehicle for creative storytelling. Stories, like Comics, can be anything. The work in this exhibition makes no conclusions about the relevancy or relative value of highbrow vs colloquial, superhero vs memoir, or kids comics vs adult. This exhibition makes the argument that comics are for kids, teens and adults, and everyone. Comics are an expressive medium that artists use to tell stories, and those stories can be anything; they are anything.

The BU College of Fine Arts School of Visual Arts presents the 2023 MFA Painting and Sculpture Thesis Exhibitions, showcasing the work of graduating Master of Fine Arts (MFA) candidates from the Class of 2023.

The BU College of Fine Arts School of Visual Arts presents the 2023 MFA Graphic Design Thesis Exhibitions, where the works of graduating Master of Fine Arts (MFA) candidates in graphic design are on view.

The BU College of Fine Arts School of Visual Arts presents the 2023 BFA Painting, Sculpture, and Printmaking Thesis Exhibitions featuring over 100+ works by undergraduate students from the Class of 2023 majoring in painting, sculpture, and printmaking.