off the pedestal is a group exhibition in the Media Art Gallery, comprising contemporary artists whose work addresses the national conversation around monuments featuring visual artists Laura Anderson Barbata, New Red Order, and Paula J. Wilson. View exhibition documentation. This exhibition is on view in the Media Art Gallery at 25 Avery Street from August...
By Kameelah Janan Rasheed Emerson Contemporary has commissioned a public art campaign by Kameelah Jana Rasheed where she responds to Boston's memorial landscape exploring the layered histories of the Boston Common. Rasheed will expand her textual practice by animating the typographical history of this region to create a library of typefaces – fragments (letters, textures)...
As a part of Laura Anderson Barbata's work in Emerson Contemporary's off the pedestal multimedia installation, the artist will be giving a talk at the Media Art Gallery on September 18th, from 5:00-6:00pm (doors open at 4:30 pm). Barbata's inspiring performance work Indigo is a call to action in response to the violence and murder...
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