Photo from the exhibition, An Adventure in The Arts, which was on view at BU Art Galleries’ Faye G., Jo, and James Stone Gallery in fall 2023. Photo by Jackie Ricciardi
Visual Arts
With its mission to exhibit inclusive, dynamic art for all, Boston University Art Galleries returns this fall with exhibitions that celebrate photography, storytelling, and alums + traveling and international shows (ciao, Venice!)
Boston University Art Galleries is proud to announce its upcoming fall 2024 exhibitions. Opening in September is 1998, a selection of photographs by artist Laurie Simmons that revisit the miniature elements Simmons introduced in her seminal work of the late 1970s. MFA painting and sculpture alumni return to BU for Group Crit, where they’ll exhibit works that reflect what they learned at BU School of Visual Arts. In October, Moments in Photography, an exhibition that celebrates storytelling through the lens of a camera, opens at 808 Gallery.
Later in the fall, BU Art Galleries takes over A+A Gallery in Venice, Italy with two concurring exhibitions. Hidden in the Layers showcases new work from a selection of celebrated Boston-based artists working in printmaking, photography, and new media. Atlantic Exchange presents the skill and talent of young artists from Venice Academy of Fine Arts and CFA who are emerging onto the art scene.
Currently traveling through the US is CEY ADAMS, DEPARTURE: 40 Years of Art and Design, a BU Art Galleries’ retrospective of Cey Adams’ illustrious forty-year career as a visionary artist, cultural pioneer, and innovative designer.
ON-CAMPUS EXHIBITIONS
The arts are alive at Boston University!
BU Art Galleries has two locations on the University’s Charles River Campus—the Faye G., Jo, and James Stone Gallery and 808 Gallery. The galleries are free and open to all.
Faye G., Jo, and James Stone Gallery • September 3 – December 7, 2024
1998 is a selection of photographs by artist Laurie Simmons. The title, playfully inspired by Taylor Swift’s 1989 album, references work produced by Simmons in the year 1998 for an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art called Metro Pictures.
These photographs revisit the miniature elements Simmons introduced in her seminal work of the late 1970s. These photographs are of dramatically lighted installation views of architectural models filled with furniture and occasional figures. Laurie Simmons is an American artist, photographer and filmmaker. Since the mid-1970s, Simmons has staged scenes for her camera with dolls, ventriloquist dummies, objects on legs, and people, to create photographs that reference domestic scenes.
808 Gallery • September 3 – October 20, 2024
Group Crit: MFA Painting and Sculpture 1969 – 2024 exhibits over 50 BU School of Visual Arts alumni who are visually, materially, and conceptually articulating themselves in conversation with each other. The exhibition, like a good group crit, is a cross-generational discourse on form and ideas. The work at times agrees with each other and at other times agrees to disagree. Group Crit, celebrates these varied perspectives and creates a space for them to be appreciated together.
808 Gallery • October 29 – December 3, 2024
This exhibition celebrates storytelling through the lens of a camera. Artists Janice Checchio, Jacqueline Ricciardi, and Cydney Scott exhibit photographs taken over the course of their careers working as photojournalists. While capturing highlights and conflicts, each artist showcases her own experience preserving a moment.
GLOBAL EXHIBITIONS
Ciao, Venice!
A + A Gallery • October 10 – November 3, 2024
Hidden in the Layers showcases new work from a selection of celebrated Boston-based artists working in printmaking, photography, and new media. Hidden in the Layers features two artists, Charles Suggs (CFA’20) and Joshua Brennan (Technical Associate, Printmaking and Photography; Lecturer, Printmaking). Working in mostly black and white, Suggs uses the woodblock technique to capture the human body in uniquely haunting, yet beautiful forms. Josh Brennan incorporates both print-based and photo-based techniques within his practice. Brennan’s cutting-edge experiments with printmaking creates vibrant, abstract works with an exacting attention to detail.
Other artists featured in the exhibition are Toni Pepe (Assistant Professor of Art; Chair, Department of Photography), Deborah Cornell (Professor of Art, Printmaking; Chair of Printmaking), and Lynne Allen (Professor of Art, Printmaking; Chair of Print Media & Photography). Pepe, Cornell and Allen have mentored both Suggs and Brennan with influences of their teachings seen in the artwork included in this exhibition.
A + A Gallery • October 10 – November 3, 2024
This Boston University Art Galleries exhibition is a selection of work from students of the Venice Academy of Fine Arts and the Boston University College of Fine Arts. Atlantic Exchange presents the skill and talent of young artists emerging onto the art scene. The exhibition runs concurrent with Hidden in the Layers.
TRAVELING EXHIBITION
Cultural pioneer. Visionary artist. That’s Cey Adams.
Next stop? Miami, Florida
CEY ADAMS, DEPARTURE: 40 Years of Art and Design is a Boston University Art Galleries retrospective of Cey Adams’ illustrious forty-year career as a visionary artist, cultural pioneer, and innovative designer. Born in Harlem and raised in Queens, NY, Cey Adams (American, 1962) honed his art skills painting graffiti on the streets and trains of New York City before moving downtown where street art was leaking into the city’s high- end galleries alongside fellow artists Keith Haring, Jean Michel-Basquiat, Futura, Haze, Lee Quinones, and Lady Pink. 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.
This exhibition is currently traveling. Previous exhibitions include: BU Art Galleries (Boston, MA); University of North Texas College of Visual Art and Design (Denton, TX); Yes we are MAD (Dania Beach, FL).
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Established in 1954, Boston University College of Fine Arts (CFA) is a community of artist-scholars and scholar-artists who are passionate about the fine and performing arts, committed to diversity and inclusion, and determined to improve the lives of others through art. With programs in Music, Theatre, and Visual Arts, CFA prepares students for a meaningful creative life by developing their intellectual capacity to create art, shift perspective, think broadly, and master relevant skills. CFA offers a wide array of undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral programs, as well as a range of online degrees and certificates. Learn more at bu.edu/cfa.