GALLERY 263

The Gallery 263 Small Works Project presents the work of 12 artists in flat files in the gallery. Each of these artists has work on view for one year. A new cohort will be selected after this time. Small Works Project artists are chosen as part of a competitive jurying process. During normal operating hours, visitors are able to browse and handle works from the flat files. In the summer, an artist in residence works in the gallery space, so we encourage you to visit the Gallery 263 online shop or email purchasing inquiries to contact@gallery263.org.

Gallery 263 is pleased to present Lonely Table, a curated three-artist exhibition featuring the work of Annika Earley, Camryn Connolly, and Julia Cheng. This exhibition brings together three New England–based artists who transform mythologies, domesticity, and contradictory emotions into fantastical portals for understanding the self. In each painting and drawing, fantasy blurs the edges between nostalgia and introspection. Through densely patterned surfaces, and the vibrancy or absence of color, the artists conjure theatrical, dreamlike worlds that explore time and emotion. Annika Earley considers the demands and joys of parenthood, as well as the intersections of sensuality, gender, and preteen nostalgia. Camryn Connolly reconstructs, reflecting the uncanny nature of memory as it bends and slips away. For her, drawing becomes a meditative process of reinvention, where the familiar home is revealed as both intimate and unsettled. Julia Cheng depicts various horses, symbols of the confusing emotions that arise when one is displaced from home, like desire, shame or guilt. Together, their works ask what it means to dwell within contradiction, and how these tensions can release new forms of life or self-understanding.

Cambridge, MA – Gallery 263 is pleased to present Field Studies (Symbiosis), a temporary exhibition that explores forest ecology through sound, movement, and immersive projections. This installation is brought to our Cambridge space by a trio of collaborators: experimental installation artist Fernanda D’Agostino, composer Lisa DeGrace, and longtime board president and movement artist Laura Kathrein. Beginning with an aerial overview of the Canadian Boreal Forest, this exhibit engages the natural world by investigating land, wind, water, soil, and hidden forest communication channels which shape the landscape. This 30-minute immersion intertwines movement, sound, images and unseen worlds to create an embodied field study that gives voice to the forest itself. In this symbiotic exchange, | Field Studies (Symbiosis) | translates hidden languages and opens onto the possibility of a world where all living beings are recognized as our sacred relations.

Gallery 263 is pleased to present A Garden Without a Gate, juried by acclaimed local artists Cicely Carew and Kate Holcomb Hale. This national exhibition responds to the reality that our experiences are most often rendered within a neat rectangle: a canvas, screen, or mirror. This exhibition asks instead what life lies beyond the frame, while alluding to the strength and resilience of nature.