Exhibition archive

  • Listening Works

    March 17–April 16, 2022

    In Listening Works, Chason-Sokol displays small and large-scale sculptures, or characters, made from the discarded materials of her life. At the gallery, the characters—each of which the artist considers an archive—are presented in a public environment where they can develop new conversations and relationships.   

    Listening Works
  • Here + Now

    February 10–March 12, 2022

    In Here + Now, the 21 featured artists utilize methods of documentation and performance to communicate the conditions and stories of their time through the lens of self-portraiture. Here + Now, a national exhibition, is juried by Francine Weiss, the senior curator at the Newport Art Museum.

    Here + Now
  • human nature

    January 6–February 5, 2022

    human nature is a special group exhibition curated by Gallery 263. All of the thirteen artists with work on view previously submitted to Gallery 263’s Exhibition Proposal Series program. In human nature, the selected artists reflect upon individualized perspectives of the human experience.

    human nature
  • Fact vs. Fiction

    December 3, 2020–January 9, 2021

    Fact vs. Fiction presents the work of artists who explore truth and fabrication through their work in photography, video, painting, drawing, mixed media, collage, and sculpture. This national exhibition is juried by Sam Adams, an art historian and curator who is currently the Koch Curatorial Fellow at the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum.

    Fact vs. Fiction
  • objectivity

    November 4–December 4, 2021

    This exhibition presents the work of 20 New England-based artists whose art engages and subverts the still life genre. Using painting, drawing, photography, video, sculpture, multimedia, and digital rendering, the featured artists engage with contemplations of the past and the future, depicted through objects. objectivity is juried by artist Josephine Halvorson.

    objectivity
  • Cookout

    September 30–October 30, 2021

    Cookout, a solo exhibition by Zach Horn contemplates the artist’s spiritual relationship with food. The multimedia pieces on view—which are made with acrylic paint, oil paint, plaster, and found objects, like spoons, mugs, forks, and cocktail umbrellas—function as a single installation. The artist began this body of work before the pandemic, back when terms like…

    Cookout
  • Collective Consciousness

    Sunday, September 26, 2021, 6–10 PM (Gallery 263 windows)

    Collective Consciousness, a pop-up video installation by collaborative artists Flor Delgadillo and Priya Dave, is an interactive installation that incorporates sculpture, video, digital fabrication, and medical equipment, including an electroencephalogram machine (EEG), to explore racial disparities faced by women of color in medical care.

    Collective Consciousness
  • 10th Annual Members’ Exhibition

    September 1–September 25, 2021

    Gallery 263 is pleased to celebrate the first decade of our Artist Membership program with our 10th Annual Members’ Exhibition. For the last ten years, we have had the pleasure of supporting more than seventy local artists through this initiative. Work from twenty members—whose art represents a range of mediums, styles, and content—will be on view.

    10th Annual Members’ Exhibition
  • To Wade in Troubled Waters

    August 16–August 28, 2021

    To Wade in Troubled Waters, a solo showcase by Mosheh Tucker, was created by Tucker during his time as the Gallery 263 Artist in Residence over the course of six weeks this summer. This is Tucker’s first solo show outside of an academic setting. He recently graduated with a Master of Fine Arts degree from Boston…

    To Wade in Troubled Waters
  • Chasing Light

    July 12–August 14, 2021

    Chasing Light, a regional online exhibition, features the work of 31 artists from across New England who utilize light as material or subject matter. This show is juried by Leah Triplett Harrington, curator for Now + There and editor-at-large of Boston Art Review.

    Chasing Light
  • FLORA

    May 20–June 19, 2021

    This show presents the work of 50 artists from across the United States whose art evokes the wonder of plants or questions preconceived notions about them. Enlisting photography, painting, drawing, sculpture, mixed media, printmaking, video, and installation, these artists envision and observe the role of flora in raising awareness of planetary change, considering the human…

    FLORA
  • LUCID

    April 15–May 15, 2021

    LUCID, a solo exhibition by Shaina Gates, reflects the artist’s interest in the transfer and translation of images across surfaces, systematized processes, and theories related to dimensionality and the organization of space. The works in LUCID, which conjure a joy similar to what one may experience when looking through a kaleidoscope, map the physical experience of…

    LUCID
  • The Playground Project

    March 29–April 10, 2021

    The Playground Project is the first-ever solo show by artist Christina Tedesco. The Playground Project is a special two-week exhibition that presents an ongoing body of work depicting human forms in playground settings and is influenced by the artist’s experience of living with the physical disability cerebral palsy.

    The Playground Project
  • STORYLINES

    February 18–March 20, 2021

    STORYLINES presents the work of twenty-nine artists who explore overlooked narratives through their work in photography, painting, drawing, mixed media, monotype, collage, and sculpture. STORYLINES is juried by James Everett Stanley, an artist and an Assistant Professor of Painting at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. The featured artists in STORYLINES explore the theme by presenting viewers with…

    STORYLINES
  • The Carpet Grew Like a Garden

    January 14–February 13, 2021

    In The Carpet Grew Like a Garden, Jannesari’s large-scale paintings illuminate the life the artist left behind in Iran. Through the lens of personal experiences, Jannesari explores the censorship of Iranian women by an overarching patriarchy and invites a dialog to reconsider assumptions about women whose lives have been circumscribed by Islamic culture.

    The Carpet Grew Like a Garden