At What Cost
A national exhibition juried by Andy Chan
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Artists
Andrea Cabochan, Kristen Hearrold, Cait Maltbie & Angela Wei
Gallery 263 is pleased to present At What Cost, a national exhibition juried by Andy Chan, featuring work from four zine makers across disciplines of design, technology, education, and fine arts. Together they celebrate the medium of zines and highlight the unseen labor, resources, and methods of productions that go into producing these small but mighty handheld works.
Andy Chan, whose background in business consulting and founder of The Sipping Room, a creative platform, artspace, and cafe located in Fenway, brings together two different but intrinsically related realities of art making: love for creative expression and cost of production.
The four artists in this intimate exhibition share the behind the scenes of their process, their unexpected challenges, and the reality of time, distance, and money that go into their zines in order to share their stories with the world.
At What Cost urges us to consider the endurance through waking nights with a half baked idea, traveling back and forth to the only risoprinter in the city, working through hundreds of sketches and test prints, all to create an idea to hold in your hand.
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About the juror
Andy Chan was born in Hong Kong and raised in England. With a background in film photography, painting, and business consulting, he has recently shifted to consulting work for arts organizations and artists in Beijing, Hong Kong, Tibet, Thailand, Taiwan and Jakarta.
Andy’s passion for art, care and community led him to founding Breezespace, also known as The Sipping Room, a Boston based creative platform, art space, and cafe located in Fenway. For six years, Andy has managed the space’s operations and exhibitions with a focus on connecting Asian artists and the public along the way, and in the process, works to cultivate international networks of artists.
About the artists
Andrea Cabochan is a multidisciplinary artist and creative technologist studying Fine Arts and Computer Science at Tufts University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. Her work spans illustration, digital media, print, bookmaking, and interactive art.
Drawing on her experiences as a Filipino lesbian woman, she explores identity, womanhood, queerness, culture, and belonging. She is particularly interested in the ways in which personal stories speak to larger shared experiences, pulling from memory and cultural background to balance vulnerability with playfulness and experimentation.
Cait Maltbie is an emerging interdisciplinary artist with a BFA in Printmaking from Emporia State University and is currently pursuing an MFA from East Tennessee State University. Through printmaking and zines, their work centers critters of our world and creatures of others in vibrant colors, placing them in situations that range from simple and humorous to complex and introspective about feeling, gender, and childhood.
Cait primarily works with easily accessible materials and has traveled distances to learn new skills and focused making time. In 2025, Cait traveled to Diretangle Press for a residency to have access to risograph machines and to the Penland School of Craft to assist in a workshop about words and images. They enjoy creating intricate pieces that take significant time, labor and focus.
Kristen Hearrold is a graphic designer and emerging design educator interested in how visual language can make ideas accessible, personal, and shared. Kristen’s research is guided by one central question: “How can I create a meaningful and engaging visual resource for teaching and exploring mark making?” She is interested in how educators and designers can introduce students to visual traditions with context, curiosity, and respect to showcase how symbols are living systems shaped by culture and context.
Angela Wei is a Brooklyn-based designer interested in proof. Her work thinks through how physical and digital objects evoke, corroborate, and reinterpret memory to form an impression of a time and place. Her current investigations experiment with image and alternative legacy and digital tooling across print, textile, and web.
Much of Angela’s practice is piecing bits of time, energy, and material found in gaps of her life. Like many artists, Angela dreams of having more time and space for her artistic practice. She holds her time away from her day job as invaluable to her artistic production. Accompanying her finished products are some of hundreds of test prints produced creating a towering paper trail leading up to the completed booklet.