Juried Members Show: In Translation

Upcoming Exhibition

Upper Gallery February 18 - March 20, 2027

In Translation explores how meaning changes as ideas move between different forms, materials, cultures, and perspectives. The exhibition considers what is gained, lost, or transformed in this process, and how artists reinterpret ideas through their creative practice. We invite artists to explore how artwork communicates across boundaries and how the act of making can reshape the original meaning.

Artist members are encouraged to interpret this theme broadly, whether through transforming observation into abstraction, reimagining familiar imagery, experimenting with materials, or exploring the influence of culture and memory. Works might examine the relationship between an original idea and its interpretation, the beauty of imperfection, or how meaning evolves over time. In Translation celebrates the creative possibilities that emerge when ideas are reimagined, offering new ways of seeing, connecting, and understanding the world around us.

Meet our guest juror:

Andrew Fish is a painter and printmaker based in Somerville, MA.  He studied at School of Visual Arts in NYC and received his MFA from Goddard College in VT. He has attended several artist residencies including the VT Studio Center, Manship Artists Residency + Studio in Gloucester, MA, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing, China, Estudio Chapulin in Mexico City, and Mass MoCA’s Assets for Artists Residency in North Adams, MA.  He is the recipient of a Mass Cultural Council Finalist award in Painting, a Somerville Arts Council grant, a NY Studio School Award, and a St. Botolph Club Fellowship.  His work has been exhibited in solo and group shows nationally and internationally including Childs Gallery, Boston, MA, The Painting Center, NYC, Artzu Gallery in Manchester, UK, and Addison Ripley Fine Art in Washington, DC. Fish teaches at Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston. His work explores the intersection of abstraction and representation, using the figure to investigate contemporary society and personal experience.

We hope you’ll join us for the opening reception on Thursday, February 18th from 6 – 8PM at the Copley Society of Art, 158 Newbury Street, Boston MA