Pearl
Pearl is an online journal presenting interviews with exhibiting artists, jurors of group exhibitions, and friends of the gallery.
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During the COVID-19 pandemic, we interviewed a handful of former Gallery 263 exhibiting artists to see if and how their practice was evolving due to the pandemic. Tell us about yourself and your practice. images of work I’m Veronica, I am an artist living in Westbrook, ME and I work out of a garage in…
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During the COVID-19 pandemic, we interviewed a handful of former Gallery 263 exhibiting artists to see if and how their practice was evolving due to the pandemic. Tell us about yourself and your practice. I grew up in the Pacific Northwest and fell in love with the human figure ever since I could hold a…
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During the COVID-19 pandemic, we interviewed a handful of former Gallery 263 exhibiting artists to see if and how their practice was evolving due to the pandemic. Tell us about yourself and your practice. Well, the basics are that I’m a multidisciplinary artist and I work mainly in paintings, textiles, and sculpture. But it’s so…
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During the COVID-19 pandemic, we interviewed a handful of former Gallery 263 exhibiting artists to see if and how their practice was evolving due to the pandemic. Tell us about yourself and your practice. I am a visual artist and educator living in Malden with my husband and three small children. Since 2014, I have…
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Tell us about yourself and your practice. images of work In a nutshell, my practice is about bearing witness to the natural world and my place in it. Until recently, my focus has been sculpture (especially fiber) and photography, but social practice is taking more of my time now. All my work is informed by…
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Tell us about yourself and your practice. images of work I’m Matt, I use he/him pronouns, and I’m a painter and an instructor currently living and teaching in Boston. My studio practice is observational in nature and I often consider the surfaces I paint on as important as the painting. I feel most connected to…
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By Moriah Gilbert, Gallery 263 Intern Inspiration for art comes from anywhere and everywhere. Some of the most traumatic events in life have inspired some of the most meaningful art. This is certainly the case with artist-in-residence Jeffrey Nowlin. In an interview, Jeffrey explained that he often draws inspiration for his work from feelings of…
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By Moriah Gilbert, Gallery 263 Intern During the past month, Jamison Cloud has been working meticulously in Gallery 263, attempting to assemble a large installation of thirty-eight screen printed and assembled soccer balls in time for the Summer Residency Program Exhibition opening. He hopes to have the soccer balls displayed in a net and hung…
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Emily Manning-Mingle, one of four artists in residence at Gallery 263 this summer, has been stitching away on what she calls fabric collages: bright, layered, dynamic works on canvas. Although her background is in painting, she has been working on a series of multimedia pieces using fabric as paint. She works within the mindset of…
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By Moriah Gilbert, Gallery 263 Intern During the more leisurely summer months in Cambridge while students catch a little bit of a break, artists in Gallery 263’s Summer Residency Program have been ramping up work for an exhibition opening August 21. One of our residents, Jack Milligan recently dove into a series of legs that…
