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SUMMARY:Opening Reception for the student-curated exhibition\, GATHER
DESCRIPTION:Lisa Tang Liu\, Analog Girl In A Digital World\, 2023\, from the series “Self-Reconstructed\,” cyanotype print woven with inkjet print\, 14 x 14 inches\, courtesy of the artist\n\n\n\nThis opening reception celebrates the fourteen artists of GATHER\, a photography exhibition curated by students of a seminar\, Curating Contemporary Art\,” taught by Dr. Leslie Brown.  \n\n\n\nIn the pieces selected for GATHER\,  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. \n\n\n\n* 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. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nRSVP for the Opening Reception
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/opening-reception-for-the-student-curated-exhibition-gather/
LOCATION:Huret & Spector Gallery; Tufte Building
CATEGORIES:Public Program,Reception
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SUMMARY:Public Art Walking Tour with artists Elisa Hamilton and Clareese Hill\, in Collaboration with MAAH
DESCRIPTION:Join artists Elisa Hamilton and Clareese Hill on a special artist-led walking tour of their two public art projects\, Glimpses of Glapion and The Black Boston Dream Oracle in the Beacon Hill neighborhood. \n\n\n\nMeeting Point: Boston Common Visitor’s Center \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin artists Elisa Hamilton and Clareese Hill on a special artist-led walking tour of their two public art projects Glimpses of Glapion and The Black Boston Dream Oracle\, followed by a reception and Q&A with the artists at The Museum of African American History at 46 Joy Street\, Boston. The walking tour will begin at Boston Common Visitors Center at 139 Tremont St\, Boston\, at 1:00pm\, with the reception and Q&A at The Museum of African American History beginning at 2:15pm.Emerson Contemporary is thrilled to collaborate with the Museum of African American History (MAAH) for this program. After the walk\, an artist Q&A session will take place at the African Meeting House at 46 Joy Street\, Boston\, MA. \n\n\n\nElisa Hamilton’s project Glimpses of Glapion will present a series of digital vignettes honoring the life and legacy of Louis Glapion. Glapion was a French\, biracial hairdresser and barber who\, together with his friend George Middleton\, built and owned what is now considered the oldest extant house in Beacon Hill\, located at 5 Pinckney Street. While more is known about Middleton\, the artist’s research has uncovered glimpses of Glapion that speak to an interesting and noteworthy life based in Beacon Hill. Hamilton seeks to honor Glapion and enliven curiosity about his lived experiences in our city. The AR experience will be available on Hoverlay and accompanied by a research document designed for educational purposes.  \n\n\n\nClareese Hill’s The Black Boston Dream Oracle is a speculative reimagining of The Complete Fortune Teller and Dream Book written by Chloe Russel\, a 19th-century Black woman from Massachusetts. By blending historical wisdom with future-focused fabulations\, the Black Boston Dream Oracle will provide a unique space for reflection\, healing\, and imagining new possibilities for liberation and collective well-being through early Black feminist thought. The Oracle will be presented as an Extended Reality (XR) experience available on the Hoverlay application\, accompanied by a web-based research document designed for educational purposes.
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/artist-led-walking-tour-with-elisa-hamilton-and-clareese-hill/
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Exhibition,Gallery Talk,Public Program,Regarding Monuments: Visualizing Hidden Histories
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SUMMARY:What Distance Holds: An MFA Thesis Exhibition Featuring video installations by Sarasa Kikuchi\, Rui Shen\, and Siqi Xiong
DESCRIPTION:Siqi Xiong\, Angel Has No Share\, 2026.\n\n\n\nSarasa Kikuchi\, Rui Shen\, and Siqi Xiong 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.  \n\n\n\nSiqi Kikuchi\, Thirteen Hours Ahead\, still 2026\n\n\n\nSarasa Kikuchi — 13 Hours Ahead \n\n\n\nSix-channel spatial cinema \n\n\n\nThirteen hours separate a mother in Japan from her daughter in America. 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. \n\n\n\nRui Shen\, I\, still\, 2026\n\n\n\nRui Shen – I \n\n\n\nInstallation \n\n\n\nShen 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. \n\n\n\nA 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. \n\n\n\nSiqi Xiong – Angel Has No Share \n\n\n\nMultimedia interactive installation \n\n\n\nIn whiskey-making\, a portion of the spirit evaporates through the barrel each year — lost to the air\, unrecoverable. Distillers call this the “angel’s share.” Meanwhile\, ice wine creation avoids evaporation because it is sealed in stainless steel. Does anything disappear\, regardless? When one compares these processes\, what is missed?  \n\n\n\nXiong’s installation transforms these questions into a factory floor to walk through. The documentation of labor sits alongside imitation and artistic recreations that move together on a conveyor belt. The spectator’s presence\, attention\, and quiet effort to look closely is part of what the work produces. You don’t observe this factory. You complete it. \n\n\n\nWhat Distance Holds Opening reception: April 22\, 2026\, 5 – 7 PM at 25 Avery Street\, Boston \n\n\n\n On view April 21 – May 10 · Tuesday through Sunday\, 11am – 6pm  \n\n\n\nFree and open to the public
URL:https://emersoncontemporary.org/event/what-distance-holds-an-mfa-thesis-exhibition-featuring-video-installations-by-sarasa-kikuchi-rui-shen-and-siqi-xiong/
LOCATION:Media Art Gallery
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Reception,Student Projects
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