EXHIBITION: PAINTINGS BY J.S. DYKES

CONTINUOUS SIGNAL

JUNE 4 - 28, 2026

Reception: Thursday, JUNE 4, from 6 to 8 pm

Gallery Hours Saturdays Noon to 5 PM

This new body of work by J. S. Dykes explores memory, language, architecture, and perception through layered abstraction, translucent color, and fragments of typography and symbolic form. Balancing structure with improvisation, the paintings function like visual conversations, part signal, part archive, where meaning emerges through accumulation, interruption, and rhythm. Built through collage, transparent layering, and reductive shape-making, the work moves between precision and spontaneity, often suggesting maps, diagrams, interiors, or coded systems without settling into fixed interpretation. Throughout the series, recurring visual motifs act as traces of communication and recollection, inviting viewers to navigate the space between recognition and abstraction.

 About the Gallery at 249 A

Gallery at 249 A features rotating art exhibitions and special arts events. The space is an evolving project of the 249 A Street Cooperative, one of Massachusetts’s first limited-equity live/work cooperative for artists. The building, which is home to more than 45 artists and their families, has served as a model for artists’ housing nationwide and was key in the growth of the Fort Point Artists Community (FPAC) when it was formed in 1983.

Gallery at 249 A programs are made possible in part through the fiscal sponsorship of the Arts & Business Council of Greater Boston, Inc., with funding provided by South Boston Community Development Foundation and the City of Boston’s Project 80 Fund. The views expressed in this program are those of the artists and do not reflect the views of the Arts & Business Council of Greater Boston, Inc.

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COMING UP

July 9 to August 20 Bruce Rogovin and Dan Osterman · Oil and Water · Paintings

September 10 to September 25 · Fidelity Friends 

September 28 to October 31 · BUILDING-WIDE FALL GROUP SHOW