Trying To Tell You How I Feel, a curated group exhibition at Gallery 263, considers visual messaging in a reality where lived experiences can be misconstrued, politicized, or erased. At times cryptic or deliberately concealed, works from 13 artists employ written language, metaphor, and abstraction to explore visibility and miscommunication. Each touches on growth, identity, and anxiety in an unclear moment.

Enlisting photography, sculpture, painting, ceramics, installation, and fibers, the pieces resist fixed meanings and instead ask viewers to enter into a shared space of interpretation and care.

The title of the exhibition derives from the work of Aaron Krach, an artist and author who creates ceramic objects with disjointed phrases which require the viewer to finish the piece. They are meant to be used, experienced, and ultimately changed over time. This exhibition also features black and white photographs from Hannah Latham’s 19 towns, 20 stories series, which explore the root causes and ripple impacts of trauma and isolation, alongside the importance of kindness, safe community spaces, and the need to protect our children. Together, artworks from 13 artists underscore how communication is a tentative, participatory act shaped by absence, vulnerability, and time.