A Garden Without a Gate Reception

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Join our opening reception for a juried exhibition, featuring 28 artists who ask what lies beyond the frame's edge.

Gallery 263 invites friends and neighbors to gather on Friday, February 27, 6–8 pm, for a reception of A Garden Without a Gate. This exhibition, juried by local artists Cicely Carew and Kate Holcomb Hale, embraces irregular forms, untamed surfaces, and unconstrained ideas. Together, 28 artists ask what lies beyond the rectangle’s neat edge. About the jurors <a href="https://www.cicelycarew.com/about" title="https://www.cicelycarew.com/about" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Cicely Carew</a> is a Boston-based artist, educator, and mind-body facilitator whose multimedia work centers radical joy and liberation. Her artistic practice spans immersive installations, collages, sculptural assemblages, painting, printmaking, and video/sound meditations, united by a vibrancy of color and multi-dimensional layering. Her pieces invite viewers to ease into a realm of healing and play. Carew’s recent installations and public art commissions include Ambrosia, 5,000 sq ft installation at the Prudential Center, the solo exhibition BeLOVEd at the Fuller Craft Museum, and a Foster Prize exhibit at ICA Boston. Locally, she has served as an Artist-in-Residence at the Shady Hill School, taught mixed media and printmaking for the New Art Center and Maud Morgan Arts, and taught screenprinting at Lesley University. Carew completed her MFA at Lesley Art + Design and her BFA at Massachusetts College of Art + Design. <a href="https://www.kateholcombhale.com/" title="https://www.kateholcombhale.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Kate Holcomb Hale</a> is an interdisciplinary artist and educator who lives and works in greater Boston, MA. Kate’s practice uses sculpture, painting, video and craft to reimagine how we can soften and modify our world to accommodate our most vulnerable members of society and ease the load of care work. Collapsing kitchen tables, knotted handrails and resting columns act as vehicles to consider vulnerability, futility and the invisible labor of caregiving that occurs in domestic and public spheres. This body of work was conceived after a period of intense caregiving in which she lost her mother, father and brother in quick succession. Her installations combine playful colors, softness, familiar forms and humor to create receptive spaces for empathy and healing. Kate received her MFA in critical theory and studio art from Maine College of Art. She has exhibited throughout the United States and internationally, including at The Danforth Art Museum, Zabludowicz Collection, Praise Shadows Art Gallery, LaiSun Keane Gallery, Spilt Milk Gallery, and the Portland ICA.

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