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Painting

Photo of Brianna Howard (CFA’22) standing in front of her work at the BFA Thesis Art Exhibit at Stone Gallery May 5. Brianna is white woman with blonde hair; she smiles with her hands in her pockets, wears a green jacket and black plants. From left, they are named Reposition, Overlapped, Proximity, Talking with the Shadows, and Remnant. The prints are mostly gray and tan colors and are abstract in nature, featuring long curving lines.

Fine Arts

2022 BFA Thesis Show a Dazzling Display of Graduating Seniors’ Work

May 9, 2022

Photo of CFA graduate student, Eva Lewis, leaning against a white table covered with paint and paint mixing tools. She is a young white woman with long red hair and bangs, and wears round glasses and a green sweater. Behind her, other student's paintings hang on the wall. White video play button is overlaid.

Fine Arts

Artist Eva Lewis (CFA’22) on Her Approach to Painting

April 9, 2022

Photo taken from behind Theo Tyson, the Penny Vinik Curator of Fashion Arts at the MFA, regarding the work on display at Life Altering: Selections from a Kansas City Collection, particularly Ebony G. Patterson’s II piece Trees in a Forest. Tyson is a tall, young man of color with his hair pulled up, dressed in black and wearing a black backpack.

Visual Arts

Life Altering: Selections from a Kansas City Collection Celebrates Diverse Artists

February 7, 2022

Photo of artwork entitled “Matter of Time,” depicting a boy and his father sitting on a bench on the sidewalk. It is made from both paint and collage. The figures are gestalts and are faceless.

Things-to-do

To Do Today: Visit the MFA’s New Exhibition, Paper Stories, Layered Dreams: The Art of Ekua Holmes

August 3, 2021

Photo of Sam Weinberger sitting on top of an orange home depot bucket, wearing white hat and t-shirt and shorts, in front of his recently painted mural at at St. Elizabeth Medical Center, which features colorful portraits of staff.

Painting

Artist Sam Weinberger’s Latest Project Pays Tribute to Front-Line Workers

July 30, 2021

Photo of CFA SVA Director Dana Clancy in a red button down looking towards the camera as she holds a painted page of the NYTimes in a gallery of her work.

Visual Arts

Two Ways of Exploring Visual Narrative

July 21, 2021

A composite of portrait photos of William Giraldi and Josephine Halvorson

University News

William Giraldi and Josephine Halvorson Named BU’s Latest Guggenheim Fellows

June 1, 2021

Photo of Shantel Miller (CFA’21) sitting on the ground and smiling. She wears a blue sweatshirt, black pants, polka-dotted socks, and yellow glasses frames. Behind her, a desk with a computer is seen and a painting that shows the back of the heads of a group of white men as two young black women walk down the street.

Fine Arts

Gauguin Had Tahiti, Shantel Miller Has Dorchester: CFA Grad Has Big Plans for $20,000 Kahn Award

May 21, 2021

Photo of three paintings by Cailyn Masson (CFA’21) on view in the BFA Thesis Exhibition. The paintings are of various sizes and feature stripes of pastel colors that resemble sunsets.

Fine Arts

BFA Thesis Exhibition Offers Mesmerizing Look at Seniors’ Work

May 7, 2021

This year’s MFA Thesis Painting Exhibit, now on view at the Stone Gallery, includes 34 works by 17 students, including these two untitled works by Danielle Fretwell (CFA’21).

Fine Arts

MFA Painting Thesis Exhibition Highlights the Work of 17 Talented 2021 Grads

April 16, 2021

Mordecai’s painting, “The Sign 3, 2020, 52" x 76" oil, graphite, charcoal canvas glued to panel. It is red, violet, and white, white abstract shapes that resemble a wine glass and violin.

Visual Arts

Gallery: The Art of Ruth Mordecai (CFA’70,’80)

March 25, 2021

Photo of Anna Valdez in a cheeta print tied crop top and black pants standing amidst the plants and canvases of her studio. One huge canvas is seen behind her on an easel. Each canvas is filed with paintings of plants and statues, and bright color.

Visual Arts

Objects of Her Affection

December 16, 2020

Photo of muralist Lena McCarthy standing in a red long sleeve shirt and jeans in front of a pair of doors on a Victorian firehouse that she painted with a large mural of various shades of blue.

Visual Arts

Muralist Lena McCarthy Transforms Outdoor Spaces with Her Colorful, Organic Style

December 16, 2020

A portrait photo of Barbara Marder

Arts & Culture

The Art of Glass Enamel

August 25, 2020

Portrait of Erika B. Hess (’09), host of the podcast I Like Your Work, standing with a microphone between her fingers against a wall. A deep blue shadow silhouette is seen behind her.

Arts & Culture

On the Art of Storytelling

August 12, 2020

A painting by Amber Vittoria

Visual Arts

Gallery: Amber Vittoria

July 7, 2020

Closeup shot of a bowl of watermelon and cucumber salad with feta and mint.

Weekender

The Weekender: June 25 to 28

June 25, 2020

Photo of Christina Yu Yu (GRS'04), the Matsutaro Shoriki Chair of Asian Art (right) examining the sculpture Bishamoten, the Guardian of the North, with MFA associate conservator Linsly Boyer (left) in a conservation lab.

Arts & Culture

As MFA Asian Art Department Chair, Christina Yu Yu Oversees a Collection Spanning 6,000 Years

February 25, 2020

A portrait of painter Sedrick Huckaby sitting on a bench and sketching.

Visual Arts

Extraordinary Paintings, Ordinary People: Alum Sedrick Huckaby Paints his Family on a Grand Scale

February 18, 2020

Director Yo-EL Cassell, a CFA assistant professor of movement, working with sophomore Derek Crosby (CFA) as Chama (far left) and sophomore Michael Valladares (CFA) as Orville (left), in rehearsal for Sunlight Interior

Dance

Finding the Inner Light in Painter Edward Hopper’s Characters

April 18, 2019

Finding the Inner Light in Painter Edward Hopper’s Characters