Emerson Contemporary is the college’s platform for showcasing contemporary visual art. It is focused on presenting living artists, their ideas, experiments, and creative practices in the areas of media art, performance art, and emergent technologies, while critically examining these works in their social context. The in-depth engagement with the temporary exhibitions and related public programming is based on the principle that artistic practice is an intellectual activity and works of art are a form of knowledge production.
Emerson Contemporary consists of the Media Art Gallery, Huret & Spector Gallery, Public Programs, Art on Campus and Public Art.
A temporary public art initiative is in dialogue with Boston’s commemorative landscape to make hidden histories visible, funded by a grant from the Mayor’s Office of Arts & Culture (MOAC). … Continue Reading Regarding Monuments: Visualizing Hidden Histories
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 … Continue Reading I have asked myself: “Can a sentence be haunted? And if so, by what?”
Now Is the Time features several of the large-scale, wall-mounted vinyl text pieces from the ongoing Hip Hop Onomatopoeia series, a body of work that explores the conversation on gun violence within … Continue Reading Louis Cameron: ‘Now Is the Time’
