Name: Essay by J. Grace Giordano
Start: 2026-08-07T18:00:00-04:00
End: 2026-08-07T20:00:00-04:00
Location: UVA's Overlook Gallery

Essay by J. Grace Giordano

Unbound Visual Arts (UVA) is a unique Allston-Brighton based non-profit art organization, serving the Greater Boston community with programs and exhibits to encourage learning, engagement, and change. Since our founding in 2012, we’ve focused on presenting contemporary art that critically engages with our present moment – believing that art has the potential to interrogate social norms, redefine perspectives, and transmit new ideas. Our exhibitions are characterized by their engagement with crucial cultural and social topics, including environmental sustainability, health and wellness, and the structures of gender and race.

Unbound Visual Arts

Essay is an installation project that positions the gallery as a studio and construction site, and uses making as a form of writing.

UVA's Overlook Gallery

-This is the culminating event for <a href="https://www.unboundvisualarts.org/essay" title="https://www.unboundvisualarts.org/essay" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Essay</a>, an installation project by J. Grace Giordano, our 2026 Artist-in-Residence.Essay positions the gallery as a studio and construction site, and uses making as a form of writing. Over the course of the residency, the space has been built, edited, and revised using a set of systems pulled from linguistics, creating a new, daily iteration of the evolving installation work. These reconfigurations and the cumulative act of making have been documented through writing and photography, producing a parallel archive of the project as it unfolded. The resulting installations, objects, images, and written publication have formed an essay composed across space, image, and text.<a href="https://jgracegiordano.com/" title="https://jgracegiordano.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Grace</a> (b. 1997, KY) is an artist-writer-educator currently based in Boston, MA. They hold a BFA in Art and Design from the University of Michigan and an MFA in Painting from Boston University.

Essay by J. Grace Giordano

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