Reception for Lonely Table

Please join us for a free reception on November 22!

Gallery 263 is pleased to present Lonely Table, a curated three-artist exhibition featuring the work of Annika Earley, Camryn Connolly, and Julia Cheng. This exhibition brings together three New England–based artists who transform mythologies, domesticity, and contradictory emotions into fantastical portals for understanding the self.

In each painting and drawing, fantasy blurs the edges between nostalgia and introspection. Through densely patterned surfaces, and the vibrancy or absence of color, the artists conjure theatrical, dreamlike worlds that explore time and emotion.

Annika Earley considers the demands and joys of parenthood, the intersections of sensuality, gender, and preteen nostalgia. Camryn Connolly seeks to reconstruct and reinvent, reflecting the uncanny nature of memory as it bends and slips away. For her, drawing becomes a meditative process of reinvention, where the familiar home is revealed as both intimate and unsettled. Julia Cheng repeats images of horses as symbols for the confusing, contradictory emotions like shame, guilt, and desire that arise when one is displaced from home. Together, their works ask what it means to dwell within contradiction, and how these tensions can release new forms of life or self-understanding.

Please see our website, gallery263.org, for more information on the featured artists and a preview of their work.