Jul
3
5:00 PM17:00

Glitch Ecology June 13 - July 12, 2026

glitch ecology brings together nineteen members of MassArt Graduate faculty and staff—past and present—whose works inhabit moments of slippage, interruption, and instability, describing glitches in systems which cease to function as expected. Rather than treating this system failure as collapse, the exhibition considers the glitch as a generative condition: a site where hidden structures emerge, meanings shift, and new forms of relation become possible.

The work unfolds into landscapes that are fragmented and remade, bodies that resist fixed representation, and material systems that oscillate between order and disorder. Glacial boulders endlessly tumble without arrival, maps dissolve into shifting territories, digital scans fracture reality into incomplete translations, and domestic, political, and ecological structures reveal their precarious foundations. Repetition, ambiguity, distortion, and misalignment become methods for understanding a world defined by continual transformation.

At a moment marked by environmental uncertainty, technological mediation, and social fragmentation, glitch ecology asks what can be learned from breakdown. The works gathered here suggest that disruption is not merely an error in the system but a force that reveals unexpected connections across humans, machines, and the space they share. In these moments of fracture, instability becomes a catalyst for the perception, resilience, and the artistic process.

–Felicia Scott Flint Director, MassArt x SoWa | June 2026

 More information available on the MassArt x SoWa Gallery website HERE.

This exhibition is curated by Felicia Scott Flint with collaborative support from Aghigh Afkhami and the MxS team. Title and theme for this exhibition by Lucy “Lou” Bennet (MFA ’27).

FEATURED ARTISTS

AGHIGH AFKHAMI, CLINT BACLAWSKI, CATARINA COELHO, MARIAH DOREN, SHANNON FORRESTER, AMY THEISS GIESE, SOFIE HODARA, CHUCK HOLTZMAN, HADIS KARAMI, BRIDEY MCGLYNN, DHANSHREE PATIL, JON RAND, SHAN ROSS, WESLEY SANDERS, ALICE STANNE, DENNIS SVORONOS, SAM TOABE, FALAKS VASA, YINER XU.

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Information Overload exhibition
Sep
2
to Oct 18

Information Overload exhibition

INFORMATION, OVERLOAD

BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF VISUAL ARTS 2025 ALUMNI EXHIBITION

SEPTEMBER 2 – OCTOBER 18, 2025

808 Gallery

In a world overflowing with headlines, memes, and data streams, the 2025 School of Visual Arts Alumni Exhibition takes on the dizzying pace and power of information. Featuring works in all media by undergraduate and graduate alumni from 1967 to 2025, the show explores how artists navigate the tangled web of surveillance, networks, and the relentless circulation of images and text.

From critical engagement to intentional resistance, these pieces ask: How does information shape what we see, believe, and ignore—and what does it mean to opt out?

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Research Lecture at New Schools of Thought Critical Thinking & Creative Teaching International Conference
Jan
8
to Jan 10

Research Lecture at New Schools of Thought Critical Thinking & Creative Teaching International Conference

Research presentation: “The Reparative Turn, Consideration, and the Fine Art Crit.”

Conference produced by Architecture, Media, Politics, and Society (AMPS) | California State University, Los Angeles, USA | Universidad de los Andes, Chile | Universitas Katolik Parahyangan, Indonesia

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SUMMER SCHOOL FOR SEXUALITIES, CULTURES, AND POLITICS
Aug
18
to Aug 23

SUMMER SCHOOL FOR SEXUALITIES, CULTURES, AND POLITICS

  • Research Center for Cultures, Politics and Identities (IPAK.Center)  (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Research Presentation: Reparative Painting an Encounter with Hopeful Futurity

Organized by: Research Center for Cultures, Politics and Identities (IPAK.Center)  and Department for Critical Political Studies Faculty for Media and Communications, Singidunum University, and supported by the Institut Français de Serbie Belgrade

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Exhibition: Painting from the Other Side
Apr
2
to Apr 7

Exhibition: Painting from the Other Side

Painting from the Other Side

An exhibition of recent paintings by: 

Kate Bickmore - Elise Broadway - Andrea Christodoulides - Shannon Forrester - Lydia Pettit – Leon Pozniakow - Jhonatan Pulido - Olivia Sterling - Osaretin Ugiagbe

Dyson Gallery, Royal College of Art, 1 Hester Road, London, SW11 4AN 

2-7 April 11AM-5PM
PV 6 April 6PM-9PM (artists will be in attendance)

RSVP @ http://bit.ly/PaintingFromTheOtherSide

Painting from the Other Side is curated by Shannon Forrester as part of a practice-led Ph.D. research project.

Possible prompts into the reparative: exploration of optimistic futures, expression of wounded narratives, proposals of transfer and/or realisation of power, dismantling of socio-political marginalisation, refutation of stereotype, empowerment, healing, joy, revenge, beauty, colour, leader, acceptance, thriving, wildness.

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LIVING RESEARCH: THE URGENCY OF THE ARTS, NAFAE conference
Mar
15
9:30 AM09:30

LIVING RESEARCH: THE URGENCY OF THE ARTS, NAFAE conference

Research Presentation: Material Aliveness and Affective Projection in Reparative Painting

Affective projections through painting that seek to unfold optimistic futures, express wounded narratives, propose transfer and/or realization of power can turn toward reparative positions. Painting and story become lenses, mobilized as methods, to be subsequently realized as embodiments, through which sociological, theoretical, and psychological ideas/ideals are visualized.

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A.I.R. National Artists Exhibition curated by Helga Christoffersen
May
25
to Jun 25

A.I.R. National Artists Exhibition curated by Helga Christoffersen

A.I.R. Galleries I II & III

Opening Reception Thursday May 25th 6-8pm

HEND AL-MANSOUR

RAE BROYLES

D'ANN DE SIMONE

JANET DECKER YANEZ

ELISE DODELES

DANI DODGE

SHANNON FORRESTER

MELISSA FURNESS

ALISA HENRIQUEZ

JODY JOLDERSMA

MARY-ANN KOKOSKA

BRENDA OELBAUM

MIMI ORITSKY

EKATERINA POPOVA

MEGHAN QUINN

AMY SWARTELE

ANN STODDARD

JULIA KIM SMITH

PATTY SMITH

VICKY TOMAYKO

ERIN WIERSMA

JOO YEON WOO

MINEKO YOSHIDA

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REPARATIVE REPRESENTATIONS Solo Exhibition A.I.R. Gallery at VOLTA NY
Mar
1
to Mar 5

REPARATIVE REPRESENTATIONS Solo Exhibition A.I.R. Gallery at VOLTA NY

Booth E08 VOLTA NY, The Invitational Solo Project Fair for Contemporary Art

PREVIEW: WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1

GUEST OF HONOR PREVIEW 5 – 7 pm

VIP + PUBLIC VERNISSAGE 7 – 10 pm

PUBLIC HOURS:

THURSDAY – SATURDAY, MARCH 2 – 4 12 – 8 pm

SUNDAY, MARCH 5 12 – 5 pm

For tickets and additional information visit: http://ny.voltashow.com/visit

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Jul
30
to Sep 25

New Art in an Old House

  • Nolan Park House 5B, Governors Island (map)
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ARTISTS:

Janet Decker Yanez

Anne deSimone

Elise Doodles

Shannon Forrester

Maxine Henryson

Carrie Johnson

Jody Joldersma

Cynthia Karaoke

Julia Kim Smith

Jay Moorthy

Catherine Mosley

Ann Schaumburg

Patty Smith

Susan Stainman

Erica Stoller

Amy Startle

Jane Swavely

Erin Wiersma & Nancy Morrow

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May
26
to Jun 26
Exhibitions

In the Secret Garden, A.I.R. Gallery, 155 Plymouth St, Brooklyn, NY 11201

In the Secret Garden
Curated by Rocio Aranda-Alvarado

Opening Reception: Thursday May 26th, 6-8pm
DUMBO Art Walk: Thursday June 2nd, 6-8pm

In the Secret Garden, is a suvey of artistic trends and conceptual explorations by women artists throughout the United States. The exhibition explores a broad spectrum of related imagery and thematic associations. The trope of the garden is used to underscore the relationships among artists working in different parts of the country and making works that can be explored together in meaningful ways.

Rocío Aranda-Alvarado is Senior Curator at El Museo del Barrio where she has been working since 2009. She is organizing Antonio Lopez: Future Funk Fashion with Amelia Malagamba on the fashion illustrations and photography of Antonio Lopez as well as a solo show on the avant-garde artist from Argentina, Marta Minujin. Her curatorial work and research focuses on modern and contemporary art of the Americas. Ms. Aranda-Alvarado is also on the adjunct faculty in the Art History Department at the City College of New York.

ARTISTS
d’Ann de Simone (New Haven, CT and East Lansing, MI), Elise Dodeles (Lamberville, NJ), Dani Dodge (Los Angeles, CA), Shannon Forrester (Somerville, MA) Melissa Furness (Denver, CO), Alisa Henriquez (East Lansing, MI), Alisa Henriquez (East Lansig, MI), Julia Kim Smith (Baltimore, MD), Mary-Ann Kokoska (Fort Collins, CO), Mimi Oritsky (Phildelphia PA), Ekaterina Popova (Wilmington, DE), Meghan Quinn (Los Angeles, CA) Patty Smith (Philadelphia, PA), Ann Stoddard (Adelphi, MI) Amy Swartele (Potsdam, NY), Erin Wiersma (Manhattan, KS), Joo Yeon Woo (Boulder, CO), Janet Decker Yanez (Nashville, TN), Mineko Yoshida (Charlottesville, VA).

Rocío Aranda-Alvarado is Senior Curator at El Museo del Barrio where she has been working since 2009. She is organizing Antonio Lopez: Future Funk Fashion with Amelia Malagamba on the fashion illustrations and photography of Antonio Lopez as well as a solo show on the avant-garde artist from Argentina, Marta Minujin. Her curatorial work and research focuses on modern and contemporary art of the Americas. Ms. Aranda-Alvarado is also on the adjunct faculty in the Art History Department at the City College of New York. 

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Jan
7
to Jan 8

Opening, Generations X: Razzle Dazzle

Generations X: Razzle Dazzle showcases over two hundred distinguished, as well as, emerging artists from cities such as New York, Seattle, New Orleans, and San Antonio, as well as, countries such as Korea and England.

Show Dates: January 7th - Feburary 7th 2016
for more information visit: http://airgallery.org/exhibitions/generations-x/

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