Threads That Bind Reception

Join us to celebrate the opening of this national exhibition of 3 artists redefining the paper medium and exploring connections to land.

Cambridge, MA - Gallery 263 is pleased to present Threads That Bind. This national exhibition features artists who center the delicate but enduring medium of paper, while interplaying with natural materials.

Here, paper is experienced as a vehicle for storytelling, connection building, and transformation. Showcasing their unique practices from recycled and handmade paper materials, natural pigments, and collage, three artists transform the two dimensional medium into textured installations.

Eliza Guion's works use found pigments and objects to draw connections between ancestral histories, early textile industrialization and the deforestation of Ireland and colonial New England. A watercolor palette, made from abundant plants growing near her studio in Ireland, becomes the foundation for a work that weaves together community paintings.

Caroline Minchew's mixed media collages incorporate research on her grandmother's botanical collection alongside ancient roman pleasure gardens. The garden becomes a place appreciated by its contradiction, formed by boundaries or division yet simultaneously the vehicle for boundless reflection.

Zoe Schein studies trees through detailed ink illustration and paper pulp collages. Their scars, burls, amputations, lacerations, bends, stoops, rolls, and hollows – marks usually regarded as shameful – become enduring, almost prideful testaments to how bodies bear transformation.

Together these artists invite us to consider our relationship to land, environmental histories, and ourselves.

This event is open to the public and free to attend. Light refreshments will be served.