Heavy/Light
Annual Kingston Associates Show
By: Kingston - Jun 18, 2026
HEAVY / LIGHT
the annual Kingston Associates show in all galleries
August 6-30, 2026
Opening Reception: Friday, August 7, 5-8PM
Artist Talk: Sunday, August 16, 1-2pm
Printing Demo: Platinum Palladium Printing with Vicki McKenna, Sat, August 22, 1-3pm
Boston, MA - Making art in a sharply polarized, hyper-political moment, HEAVY / LIGHT is less about choosing a side and more about choosing a stance toward the noise itself. Artists, as culture bearers, face a persistent tension – to ignore the churn of daily politics and risk irrelevance, to engage it directly and risk becoming didactic, or to translate the deeper emotional and social currents beneath it into something more enduring.
None of these paths is neutral. Silence can read as complicity; response can be flattened into slogan. The real difficulty lies in holding both weight and buoyancy at once—resisting reflex and retreat—finding a form that neither parrots the moment nor pretends to stand outside it, but instead renders its complexity, contradictions, and human stakes in a way that outlasts the news cycle. Step into Kingston to delve into the minds of very different artists who will grace our walls with stark black and white film photography, transcendental colorful paintings, textured sculptures that you will be begging to touch and delicate colored pencil drawings.
The Kingston Gallery Associate Members enable the gallery to meaningfully engage with a number of artists and to exhibit a wide range of high-quality contemporary art. The Associates are a group of 9 artists who regularly meet throughout the year and participate in many Kingston gallery activities, including organizing, installing, and staffing the well-received Associates' annual exhibition each year.
Kingston Gallery Associates invite you to explore HEAVY / LIGHT, a gallery takeover, opening August 6, with a First Friday reception on August 7 from 5-8 pm.
Participating Artists:
Kathline Carr, Martha Chason-Sokol, Sally Dion, Yue Hua, Corey Jonze, Vicki McKenna, Jade Olson, Noelle Ventura, Anne Sargent Walker