Name: Opening Reception - A Shell, A Peel, A Pause
Start: 2026-04-12T18:00:00-04:00
End: 2026-04-12T20:00:00-04:00
Location: UVA's Overlook Gallery

Opening Reception - A Shell, A Peel, A Pause

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

A Shell, A Peel, A Pause is a three person exhibition featuring works by Miguel Caba, An Hà, and Vivian Tran.

UVA's Overlook Gallery

<a href="https://www.unboundvisualarts.org/ashell" title="https://www.unboundvisualarts.org/ashell" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">A Shell, A Peel, A Pause</a> is a three person exhibition featuring works by Miguel Caba, An Hà, and Vivian Tran. The minimal, poetic, and rhythmic title gestures toward sites of protection, transfiguration, and stillness, among other possibilities. Drawing from familiar, everyday objects, imagery, and iconography, the artists breathe life into the mundane.Caba’s wallpapers depict their grandmother’s distant home, the paintings bridge distance yet exist at a moment paused as their facade slips away. Tran’s wall collage wraps around the interior and stitches disparate narratives together through their horizon lines. Hà reanimates byproducts that are in the periphery of the everyday, echoing past narratives.The works offer familiar space for daydreaming, inviting viewers to reconsider what might exist beyond the horizon. <a href="https://miguelcaba.com/" title="https://miguelcaba.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Miguel Caba</a> is an artist based in Boston with a BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University. Caba’s practice examines their relationships with people through the lens of objects and spaces in transition. They are a recipient of the Elizabeth Greenshields Grant and Jeffrey Ahn Jr. Fellowship, and have been featured in New American Paintings Issue 176 Northeast. <a href="https://anha.today/" title="https://anha.today/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">An Hà</a> is an artist based in Boston whose practice spans found object sculpture, site-responsive installations, and experimental community gatherings. His practice is an exploration of non-linguistic communication—the shared language of objects, hospitality, and being in space together.&nbsp;Hà is a recipient of the Opportunity Fund grant from the Boston Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture and the Julie Graham Prize from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. He was named a traveling fellow for the Anne E. Borghesani Memorial Prize from Tufts University and selected as a finalist for the 2025 Boston Public Art Accelerator. He earned his BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University in 2025 and attended the Yale Norfolk School of Art the same year. <a href="http://viviantran.ca/" title="http://viviantran.ca/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Vivian Tran</a> is an interdisciplinary artist based in Boston, MA. Her work often references familiar symbols and actions intrinsic to everyday life. Working primarily in video installation and sculpture, Tran constructs quiet and minimal scenes that are suggestive of narrative, often interweaving moments across time and space. By closely observing overlooked actions and ephemera from daily life, Tran’s work explores when, how, and why the everyday can become profound—revealing a quiet, emotional sensitivity that reminds us of our own aliveness. Tran attended the Yale Norfolk School of Art in 2023 and was a fellow at the Ox-Bow School of Art and Artists’ Residency in 2024. She earned a BFA in Studio Art and a BS in Cognitive &amp; Brain Science from Tufts University in 2025. She is a 2025-26 Durational Pedagogies Fellow at Dia Chelsea. presents a series of works produced by Maudegrasse from 2016 till present. Focusing on the structurally inherent tension and energy within twisted forms, Maudegrasse plays with notions of balance and framework. The use of patina and the interplay of light and shadow on the contorted bronze surfaces creates a sense of movement – snaking lines and connecting points, shifting from rigid lines to fluid curves. Even though Maudegrasse’s inspiration comes from observation of some natural phenomena, the work showcases some configurational mysteries which exist in organic forms, abstract poses, and movement dynamics. Image Credits: Miguel Caba

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