Natalia Afentoulidou's installation, which represents the intersection of the artist's old life and her new one. The recyclables are metaphors for America, but they also speak to Greece’s economic situation. Afentoulidou, who is from Greece, studies painting and installation at Boston University.

Heidi Hogden titles her thesis show “42.88°N, -88.01°W,” the longitude and latitude of her childhood home in Franklin, Wisc. One large-scale drawing (pictured) depicts a hunter. She studies drawing at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and and Tufts University.

Carlos Jiménez Cahua's installation view called"Untitled #28." Jiménez Cahua left documentary photography for abstraction. The work is bright, cumulative, and immediate. He studies photography at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design.

Arhia Kohlmoos' "Rhiannon" is painted in many thin layers. The paintings are small, and mounted behind a curtain to create a sense of intimacy with the viewer. Each one took roughly 400 hours to make. She studies painting at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and Tufts University.

Leila Namin

Leila Namin's painting pictured presents an open-ended narrative. Paintings in her thesis show, mottled and delicately rendered, often obscure faces and present open-ended narratives freighted with darkness and possibility. She studies painting at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design.

Jessie Vogel's sculpture titled "2012 Cement" is made of nylon and sand. Vogel's thesis show features hard-edged structures with soft, stuffed beige nylon oozing out. The soft parts read like body parts or excretions. She studies sculpture at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design.