Threads That Bind
A national exhibition curated by Gallery 263
on view
on view
November 13 – December 20, 2026
reception
Friday, November 20, 6–8 pm, rsvp
open hours
Thurs. and Fri. 5-8 pm; Weekends 12-4 pm
Artists
Eliza Guion, Caroline Minchew & Zoe Schein
Gallery 263 is pleased to present Threads That Bind. This national exhibition features artists who center the delicate but enduring medium of paper, while interplaying with natural materials.
Here, paper is experienced as a vehicle for storytelling, connection building, and transformation. Showcasing their unique practices from recycled and handmade paper materials, natural pigments, and collage, three artists transform the two dimensional medium into textured installations.
Eliza Guion’s works use found pigments and objects to draw connections between ancestral histories, early textile industrialization and the deforestation of Ireland and colonial New England. A watercolor palette, made from abundant plants growing near her studio in Ireland, becomes the foundation for a work that weaves together community paintings.
Caroline Minchew’s mixed media collages incorporate research on her grandmother’s botanical collection alongside ancient roman pleasure gardens. The garden becomes a place appreciated by its contradiction, formed by boundaries or division yet simultaneously the vehicle for boundless reflection.
Zoe Schein studies trees through detailed ink illustration and paper pulp collages. Their scars, burls, amputations, lacerations, bends, stoops, rolls, and hollows – marks usually regarded as shameful – become enduring, almost prideful testaments to how bodies bear transformation.
Together these artists invite us to consider our relationship to land, environmental histories, and ourselves.
preview
platinum-palladium prints, handmade paper, and monoprints collaged onto panel,
platinum-palladium prints, handmade paper, and monoprints collaged onto panel
About the artists
Eliza Guion (she/they) is a visual artist, writer, and educator from Abenaki territory (Vermont, USA). Through textile, print, and sculpture works formed with abundant and discarded materials, she explores land histories and possibilities. She holds a B.A. in Sociology from Colorado College, completed a weaving concentration at the Penland School of Craft, and has worked in community food access and local agriculture for many years. Her work has been exhibited at MUNKA Studio, The People’s Museum Limerick, An Chéad Tine Gallery, and published in Quare Éire.
Her research is led by an instinctive interest in material; largely focused on working with weedy or abundant plants and waste stream objects. In doing so, she questions how attending with care to overgrowing, undesirable, or polluting material might shape perceptions of home, place, and belonging.
Caroline Minchew (she/her) is a lens-based artist based in New York and Virginia. She received her MFA in Photography from Virginia Commonwealth University (2022) and her BA in Studio Arts and Spanish from Sewanee University of the South (2014).
Her work layers photographic prints, handmade paper from dried flowers, and monoprints into collages on panels. The layers point to different points in time and processes of unearthing botanic deposits.
Caroline has participated in residencies at Oak Spring Garden Foundation, Edward Albee Foundation, High Desert Test Sites, NARS Foundation, Penland School of Arts and Crafts, and Burren College of Art. Her work has been shown most recently at Muscarelle Museum of Art at William & Mary (Williamsburg, VA), The Carlos Gallery (Sewanee, TN), Bond Millen Gallery (Richmond, VA), and Candela Gallery (Richmond, VA). Her photographic works are housed in the permanent collections of the National Museum of American History and the National Gallery of Art Photograph Study Collection in Washington, DC.
Zoe Schein (they/them) is an artist and educator with a MA in Art + Design Education from the Rhode Island School of Design and BA in Gender, Women’s and Sexuality Studies from Ginnell College.
Their art practice centers paper collage, pen and ink, and graphite pencil. As an educator at heart, their work focuses on educational comics, recently published Love is Learned: A Choose Your Own Relationship Adventure partnered with One Love Foundation and Clinical Ethics: A Graphic Medicine Casebook published by Penn State University Press.
Zoe works in two contrasting art making methods: meticulously detailed pen and ink drawings next to paper pulp collages. While journeys of transformation are generative and joyous, pulping reveals the other reality, one that is destructive and uncertain. Zoe describes the paper pulping process as destructive, but is integral to the final product, to butcher them unrecognizably to reconstitute them anew.