FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April Presentation

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: APRIL PRESENTATION

MAPPING MEMORIES

April 3 – April 27, 2026
Opening Reception: Friday, April 3 | 5:00 – 8:30 PM
Location: TAG Gallery, SoWa Art & Design District, Boston

Boston, MA — Mapping Memories, on view at TAG | The Art Gallery from April 3 through April 27, 2026, brings together a diverse group of contemporary artists exploring the profound relationship between memory, place, and identity. Through painting, photography, mixed media, and three-dimensional work, the exhibition invites viewers to consider how lived experiences are carried, transformed, and reimagined over time.

The places we have inhabited never fully disappear. They remain with us in quiet and subtle ways: the angle of afternoon light entering a room, the rhythm of waves along a shoreline, the scent of a familiar kitchen, the sound, or silence of a particular street. Geography may shift, but its emotional imprint endures.

Inspired in part by the writings of philosopher Gaston Bachelard, who observed that we remember spaces not by their measurements but by how they make us feel, Mapping Memories examines how memory continuously reshapes our internal landscapes. Each act of remembering becomes a form of redrawing, edges shift, colors intensify or fade, distances expand or collapse. The map is never fixed.

In this exhibition, artists approach memory as both subject and process. Some works reference cartography directly, evoking maps, borders, and coordinates. Others unfold through layered compositions, fragments of architecture, symbolic imagery, or abstract visual language that suggests emotional terrain. Together, they explore how personal histories, cultural memory, migration, displacement, and belonging shape our understanding of place.

The body itself emerges as a central site of memory, an archive of gestures, sensations, and emotional responses that often hold truths beyond conscious recall. In this way, Mapping Memories positions each individual as a living map, carrying traces of where they have been.

Rather than offering fixed narratives, the exhibition creates a collective atlas of lived experience, a constellation of personal geographies where memory and imagination intersect. It invites viewers to reflect on their own internal maps and consider how the spaces they have known continue to shape who they are.

Participating Artists:

Adrian Negenborn, Amalia Tagaris, Angelique Luro, Angus Schaefer, Anne Diamond McNevin, Cathy Weaver Taylor, Cristina Bozas, Dan Foran, Darryl Loyer, Dina Mordeno, Edward Rocha, Fernando Fula, Francine Zaslow, Janet Lincoln, Joseph Sikes, June Krinsky-Rudder, Karym Murphy, Kim Barry, Lisa Penny, Marcia Santore, Mark Jarzombek, Matthias Lupri, Michael Cicerone, Paola Bidinelli, Paula Borsetti, R. Douglass Rice, Ted Prato, Warren Mather

Opening Reception
Friday, April 3 | 5:00 – 8:30 PM
Join us for an evening of art, conversation, and connection with the participating artists.

Gallery Hours
Wednesday – Sunday, 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM
or by appointment

Location
SoWa Art & Design District
460C Harrison Ave, 2C, Boston, MA

About TAG
TAG (The Art Gallery), founded by Claudia Fiks, is a contemporary art gallery located in Boston’s SoWa Art & Design District. Home to more than 100 member artists, TAG presents dynamic exhibitions throughout the year and maintains a strong presence on ARTSY, connecting artists with collectors locally and globally.

Media & Sales
View the online exhibition and available works via TAG’s ARTSY Viewing Room.

Contact
Claudia Fiks
claudia@newenglandartcenter.com
774-551-6824

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