Between the Worlds: Traces of Inner Landscapes feat. Christina Yijia Ren
2025-04-30 00:00 - 2025-05-10 23:59 (America/New_York) | Huret & Spector Gallery
Between the Worlds: Traces of Inner Landscapes is a multi-sensory exhibition centered around a VR experience. It follows the journey of a painter who enters their own unfinished work and wanders through shifting landscapes shaped by memory, perception, and fragments of the subconscious. The exhibition brings these inner worlds to life through a layered combination of canvas paintings, installation elements, and virtual reality, inviting viewers to step inside a story suspended between imagination and reality.

Christina Yijia Ren is an interdisciplinary artist working across painting, illustration, animation, graphic design, and new media. Her work explores the fusion of traditional art with emerging technologies such as AR and VR, creating immersive, interactive experiences and new forms of visual storytelling.

Lisa Tang: "Be Whole In Everything" MFA Thesis Show
2025-12-01 12:00 - 2025-12-03 18:00
This work is a non-doctrinal spiritual practice made visible. It draws on prehistoric abstraction, sacred geometry, and the ordinary courage of repetition. Each element invites a small, complete gesture: to strike, to bow, to trace. The videos loop; the stones hang; breath returns. Nothing is illustrated, yet everything is implicated — matter, memory, tide, light.

To be whole in everything is not to be grand. It is to become exact in presence: to place your full attention inside the tiniest coordinate, until the world answers back.

Leaning Against The Wall: Photo Practicum Fall 2025
2025-12-08 12:00 - 2025-12-10 18:00
You are cordially invited to attend this year’s Photo Practicum Fall 2025 exhibit

This semester, students in Lucie March’s photography class dove into themes such as identity, the passing of time, and our roots represented through six different personal projects. We invite you to join us for the reception of our show at the Huret & Spector Gallery on December 9th, from 6 pm – 8 pm. We hope to see you there!

Exhibiting artists: Emilie Dumas, Kiki Tobor, Natalie He, Danny Kennedy, Zoë Grandstaff-Gruber, Cooper Rich

"GATHER"
2026-03-31 12:00 - 2026-04-08 17:00 | Huret & Spector Gallery; Tufte Building
Image Credit: Shannon Johnson, With one look you take me back to everything I used to be, 2025, from the series “Gathering Rosebuds,” archival inkjet print and ink on Rives BFK paper, 29 x 40 inches, courtesy of the artist.

Huret & Spector Gallery

March 31 – April 8, 2026

GATHER, a student-curated exhibition of photographers and lens-based artists exploring meaning, memory, connection, and community at a transformative moment.

Student Lightning Talks: Friday, April 3rd, Noon

Opening Reception: Friday, April 3rd, 5-7 pm

Photography and related media have the power to knit together people, places, and things, both literally and metaphorically. The present moment seems fraught with peril, and systems appear to be unravelling. Yet, at the same time, we have witnessed the power of unity, of people coming together to empower and support each other.From a thematic, regional open call, 14 emerging student-curators selected 14 emerging artists from New England, ranging from undergraduate to graduate students, emerging to more established, and several pieces per person to present a fuller picture. The resulting exhibition GATHER showcases a broad range of media and genres, including portrait and vernacular photography; printing and sewing on fabric; collaborative and woven imagery; video and 16mm film installation; and kinetic and multi-media sculpture — using analog, digital, and historical processes.

In the pieces selected for GATHER, we were delighted to see new themes emerge including communities and collection, identity and queerness, nostalgia and nature — all with an overall meditative and hopeful tone. In addition, the chosen artists represent a wide geographical range, gathering together artists from across Great Boston and New England. GATHER aims to weave these various threads together to make a larger whole and make a difference.

GATHER was curated by upper-level Emerson undergraduate students (listed below) as part of the seminar VM415, “Curating Contemporary Art,” taught and led by Leslie K. Brown, PhD. As a part of the class and the exhibition, students are responsible for all aspects of the exhibition, encompassing graphic designs, loan agreements, object checklists, educational didactics, social media assets, and press materials.

The Artists of GATHER:

“Alchemy of the Unknowns”:Lisa Tang Liu & James David Tabor (Stoughton, MA & Phoenix, AZ)

alina balseiro (Medford, MA)

Douglas Breault (Bridgewater, MA)

Haley Cooper (Abington, MA)

Beth D’Elia (Barnstable, MA)

Porter Gifford (Cambridge, MA)

Monica Hamilton (Salem, MA)

Jessie James (Medford, MA)

Shannon Johnson (Boston, MA)

Lee Kilpatrick (Arlington, MA)

Lisa Tang Liu (Stoughton, MA)

Jordan Marshall (Brookline, MA)

Michelle Schapiro (Roxbury, MA)

Francine Weiss (Newport, RI)

Emerging student-curators of GATHER: Abigail Andrews, Anjali Bakhru, Dylan Boyd, Sophie Dodd, Claire English, Julia Giammarco, Lang Han, Ruyi Huang, Kitty Lei, Daniel Petrylka, Arlo Rader, Jie Sun, Bianca Todini, Maya Wang.The students in Emerson Curatorial Practices represent majors from Media Arts Production (SOF), Writing, Literature & Publishing (WLP), and Interdisciplinary Studies (IDS), with minors as diverse as Art History, Curatorial Practice & Visual Culture, History, Philosophy, Psychology, Religion, and Science.

* Please note: The Huret and Spector Gallery is located on the 6th Floor of the Tufte Building. Please enter through the doors at 10 Boylston Place Alleyway. Visitor registration and ID are required for visitors without an Emerson ID. Emerson Community need not RSVP. Contact mailto:contemporary@emerson.edu contemporary@emerson.edu for help registering before your visit. Hours are Monday through Friday, 12-5 pm.

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"Dis-placement / This-placement"
2026-04-16 12:00 - 17:00 | Huret Spector Gallery, Tufte Building
Dis-placement of home. This-placement of identity.

Dis-placement of identity. This-placement of meaning.

Dis-placement of meaning. This-placement of home.

“Dis-placement/This-placement” brings together nine works that explore the inseparable mechanics of loss and emergence. What is displaced does not leave a void; it makes room for what could not have appeared otherwise. The works do not resolve this loop; they inhabit it.

Opening reception: April 16, 5-7:30 pm.

Participating artists:

Bahar Hassani Dorabadi

Douglas Tarnovean

Duo “AlGol” (Aleksandra Borovikova, Gökçe Oraloğlu)

Fadime Icin

Mahdokht Molaei

Rebecca Williams

Yang Han

Yifei Chen

Yinyin Lu

* Please note: The Huret and Spector Gallery is located on the 6th Floor of the Tufte Building. Please enter through the doors at 10 Boylston Place Alleyway. Visitor registration and ID are required for visitors without an Emerson ID. Emerson Community need not RSVP. Contact mailto:contemporary@emerson.edu contemporary@emerson.edu for help registering before your visit. Hours are Monday through Friday, 12-5 pm.

What Distance Holds: An MFA Thesis Exhibition Featuring video installations by Sarasa Kikuchi and Rui Shen
2026-04-21 12:00 - 2026-05-10 18:00 | Media Art Gallery
Sarasa Kikuchi, 13 Hours Ahead, video stills, 2026

Sarasa Kikuchi and Rui Shen invite viewers into the contemplative textures of fluid identity, invisible labor, and immigrant guilt, exploring what remains amid absence with innovative aesthetics and immersive strategies that invite viewers to linger and feel.

View the trailer

Sarasa Kikuchi — 13 Hours Ahead

Six-channel spatial cinema

Thirteen hours separate a mother in Japan from her daughter in the US. In Kikuchi’s immersive six-channel installation, that gap becomes something one can feel in their body: two lives unfolding in parallel, connected, yet never quite touching. Through quiet domestic scenes, layered soundscapes, and a fractured screen arrangement, 13 Hours Ahead asks what it means to love someone you can only reach across time zones. It holds space not only for the immigrant who left, but for the parent left behind — a perspective rarely given its full weight.

Rui Shen, Elsewhere, installation view, 2026

Rui Shen – Elsewhere

Video Installation

Shen considers the continuous becoming of identity. The moment one tries to answer who they are, something shifts. Shen’s installation uses a single word, I, — the most personal word in any language — to meditate on the essence of becoming.

A fan stirs the suspended surface of horizontal screens upon which projections of “I” form and dissolve. They gather, briefly cohere, then scatter again. The quiet circuit demonstrates how alive it is, always moving, always just beyond the labels we reach for.

What Distance Holds Opening reception: April 22, 2026, 5 – 7 PM at 25 Avery Street, Boston

On view April 21 – May 10 · Tuesday through Sunday, 11am – 6pm

Free and open to the public.

Second Nature: A Photo Exhibition Presented by the Spring 2026 Photo Practicum Class
2026-04-27 12:00 - 2026-04-29 18:00 | Huret and Spector Gallery
This exhibition features photography by students in the Photo Practicum course who spent their semester working on one specific project. The resulting works encounter themes of time, growth, exploration, and a sense of self. Each project uniquely asks questions about the world we live in and how we occupy it. Students worked with analog and digital photography, along with bookmaking and mixed media, to create their various projects.Presented by Doris (Leping) Cao, Kaileigh Clark, Natalie He, Andrés Herrera, Yixin Hu, Danny Kennedy, Lilli Drescher, Grace Kinney, Ela Moss, Hammond (Shi) Qi, Kiki Tobor, Maya Wang, and Wendi Zhang.Opening reception: April 27, 6-9 PM.The exhibition can also be seen during gallery hours from 12-6 PM, April 27-April 29.

* Please note: The Huret and Spector Gallery is located on the 6th Floor of the Tufte Building. Please enter through the doors at 10 Boylston Place Alleyway. Visitor registration and ID are required for visitors without an Emerson ID. Emerson Community need not RSVP. Contact mailto:contemporary@emerson.edu contemporary@emerson.edu for help registering before your visit. Hours are Monday through Friday, 12-5 pm.
