Iridescent Dimensions explores the shifting nature of perception through paintings that shimmer with luminous, rainbow-like color. The title comes from the word iridescent, derived from the Latin iris — rainbow — describing colors that change with light and perspective. As the viewer moves through the space, the paintings continuously transform, revealing new layers of color, depth, and emotion.

The exhibition is inspired by Iris, the Greek goddess of the rainbow, associated with communication, messages, and new beginnings. In mythology, Iris was seen as a bridge between heaven and earth — a symbol of connection between visible and invisible worlds. For Joanna Gabler, this symbolism reflects a long-standing artistic exploration of inner landscapes, consciousness, and the subtle energies that exist beneath the surface of ordinary perception.

Through light, movement, and fluid color, Iridescent Dimensions invites viewers into a contemplative space where reality feels open, shifting, and interconnected — a place where color itself becomes a language of transformation and wonder.
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In Opaque Dimensions, space is broken down as it emerges from the center, with a combination of organic and geometric sensibilities. It is done almost ritualistically, the patterns repeating themselves within patterns, different shapes emerging from similar dissections of the surface. One shape determines and inspires the next, and there is a balance between intense detail, and the different modalities of precision involved. The works are one continuous piece, accessible fractals. Details emerge from one basic pattern into a vast array of shapes. It is a net that comprises the structure of what is not necessarily perceived by the senses.

Opaque Dimensions gives a hint that facets of reality exist far beyond the capability of our eyes to fathom.

Report back from The Biennial Project Artist Brigade at the 2026 Venice Biennale, plus Radius Lucis: new work from Bo Petran

Figurative Magic is an evocative group show exploring the human form through a lens of imagination, intimacy and expression. Featuring works by Matt Bernson, Patrica Symonds-Powell, and Casey Albert, this mixed-artist exhibition embraces both the beauty and vulnerability of the body, with select pieces including tasteful nudity. Step into a space where form meets fantasy.

First Friday Opening Reception:
Friday, May 1st, 6-8 pm
Closing Reception:
Saturday May 30th, 6-8 pm

An eclectic and comprehensive survey of Future Lab[s] Gallery’s Associate Members

First Friday Opening Reception:
Friday, April 3rd, 6-8 pm
Closing Reception:
Friday April 24th 6pm to 8pm

Come warm up with the extraordinary artwork of over 40 member artists! Winter blues - what winter blues?!?!?

First Friday Opening Reception
Friday, Jan 2nd, 6-8 pm

Closing Reception
Friday, Feb 6th, 6-8pm

North Adams residents Stacey Dreher, Jeff Faerber, and Eric Wallen are showing an eclectic array of works for the month of December

Jeff Faerber presets a small series of cityscapes from North Adams and its vicinity. The old architecture and rolling hills are what originally drew him to the area, and he enjoys capturing small glimpses as the light and shadows move across the structures.

Stacey Dreher does intricate mosaics inspired by natural formation, animals, and imaginative dimensions. They are both striking and delicate, the artist having a singular and unique approach to the medium.

Eric Wallen takes forever to go anywhere. Every tree requires hugging. His two cats demand constant attention. It’s safer to just eat pastries and play with paint.

"This exhibition contains stories on video and artwork inspired by ancestors created and told by myself, and my family, friends, and neighbors.

We all come with our personal stories. I began exploring my own story in my artwork through a 2024 project entitled The Little Red House.

My work with The Little Red House project inspired me to expand my vision to the stories of others, understanding that our stories, in combination, make us who we are as people.

In All in the Same Boat Now, 18 of my family members, friends, and neighbors, share parts of their personal stories on video, with 5 screens displaying these videos throughout the gallery.

I have begun researching the boats that carried many of our ancestors from their birthlands to where they are now, and drawings of some of these boats will integrate with the videos to take a broader look at out cumulative human experiences. Other artist’s will be sharing work related to our travels and stories as well.

And finally, visitors to the exhibition will be invited to share where they came from by pinning a ribbon, and a short description, of their own places of origin on a work map that will be part of the exhibit."

-Dawn Nelson

“Robot Paintings are created in the abstract by using a set color scheme and vocabulary. Using foreground and background painting allows color to become the principal character in the painting process, which is the conversation I wanted to have about painting when I began the series, and it thus materialized as my most recent contribution to art”. - Ricky Darell Barton

"These abstract works were specifically made very slowly using a reverse pulp painting method, which forced me to slow down and think with my hands. Each partial layer using multiple teaspoons of pulp and drained naturally for an hour before the next layer was applied. Each piece contains about 20 thin layers or partial layers of pulp.

My work uses plant and found fibers that I process into paper pulp. The main fibers are Do (a Vietnamese fiber) and flax. I have been making handmade paper since 2020 and I spent many years working with what many consider invasive plants – Japanese knotweed, garlic mustard, and honeysuckle bush." - Alicia Canary

In our ever-changing arts community here in North Adams, MA, there exists artists born and bred in this lively city. Having grown up here infuses these artists with a unique perspective. Come visit and see the work of our HOMEGROWN!

Fri, Sept 5, 2025  thru Sat, Sept 27, 2025
Opening reception Friday, Sept 5, 6-8pm
Closing reception Sat, Sept 27, 6-8pm

Future Lab(s) Gallery, in collaboration with Assets for Artists (A4A), proudly presents the opening of the 2024 & 2025 North Berkshire Capacity-Building Program Artist Exhibition. This First Friday event brings together the work of 20 dynamic artists who were selected as grant recipients through a competitive process that recognizes creative excellence and a commitment to building sustainable art practices in our region.

Future Lab(s) Gallery is pleased to present “Structure and Fluidity”, with artists Joanna Gabler and Marjorie Kaye. In this exhibition the artists find a meeting point in seemingly opposite disciplines. Both artists peer into the mysteries of the unknown, giving form to the nebulous energies of intuitive reception.

Joanna Gabler works instinctively, partnering with the chance flow of paint across the surface. She employs decision making as to its direction, coaxing the composition with flexible intent. She states: “My love for strong colors never wavers. I explored color for many years while painting with oils and simultaneously working on transcapes (my photographs of landscapes transformed by my imagination). In the past few years, I have been longing for a more fluid medium. I started working with acrylics. I call my technique ‘structured flow’. All of my work in this exhibition is executed in this way.

Marjorie Kaye builds sequences, adding to a primary shape, with each successive form getting larger and more complex, mirroring growth from cellular beginnings to complex formation. Her work manifests similarly to an explosion of a geode. The commonality of momentum is what drives each work and results from the exploration of the one before it. They are one continuous piece, accessible fractals. Details emerge from one basic pattern into a vast array of shapes. It is a net that captures and comprises the structure of the material universe, as well as that which can only be sensed.

There is a point, an apex in the space between Gabler and Kaye’s work, a place where the opposition of technique meets the similarity of intent. Both artists investigate and approach the dichotomy between structure and fluidity.

“Art is and always will be sacred and the secret gate between the invisible and visible”.

-Joanna Gabler

Life is a continuous movement between thresholds—each one a portal, each one offering both a goodbye and a beginning. In Portals, artists Carolyn Newberger and Dawn Nelson explore the liminal spaces that shape who we are, where we come from, and who we may become.

Thinking outside the box is a phrase commonly used in our contemporary culture to express a creative thinking process outside the norms without limitations. This show, “Thinking Inside the Box “, focuses on what can be created within the confines of a limited space looking at things in a new way to find unique and creative solutions.

Artists LeMaitre and Fietta were inspired by artist Joseph Cornell to create a series of assemblage art pieces, all in the constraints of a framed box, in their case a cigar box sized vessel. The subject matter of each piece varies along with the materials and style used. The common thread that connects these pieces of art is the cigar box they are made in. The art created in this series presents a sometimes whimsical or irrational juxtaposition of thoughts using objects that have been either discarded or forgotten. These fragments, once beautiful, precious or unitarian in their nature are now assembled to evocate a narrative and meaning to the viewer.

Spring - a new beginning, a new cycle, an explosion of new life. In Greek mythology, the goddess of spring, Persephone, is abducted by Hades and taken to the underworld to be his bride. She is rescued by her mother Demeter, goddess of fertility, who refuses to let the Earth propagate until she is released. Persephone is freed, but must spend part of the year with Hades in the underworld: winter. As we enter April, Livia Linden and Bo Petran explore the season of light and life, and the foreshadowing of its end.

An immersive community installation with events throughout the month of February.

Our Third Annual Invitational Show in the front gallery and our First Annual Erotic Show behind the the curtain!

Figuratively Speaking: an exhibition of new work by Patricia Symonds & Matt Bernson. On view December 6 - 28, 2024

New Work by N. Massari & Sergio Demo

New Work by Carissa Toomey & Robert Patterson

MONUMENTALROBOTPAINTINGS+ & Light Takes the Tree

Paintings by Ricky Darell Barton and Doug Holst

Group Show