Sub(Urban) Exhibition – The Stamp Gallery - Opening Reception 11/1

Sub(Urban) is an exhibition of print, painting, installation, and sculpture curated by UMD Art Department Faculty Matthew McLaughlin. Works in Sub(Urban) explore our contemporary surroundings and the underlying psychology of our modern living environments, primarily through humor, satire, and irony.

Opening Reception: Wednesday, November 1, 2017, 5–7 pm

Exhibition: October 30–December 16, 2017

Free and open to the public

Our gallery doors are open Monday–Thursday 10 am to 8 pm, Friday 10 am to 6 pm, and Saturday 11 am to 5 pm. Please feel free to contact the Gallery via this email, or our coordinator, Raino Isto, at risto@umd.edu if you have any questions.

(Sub)Urban presents works by six contemporary artists working
across America, all of whom question the reality of suburban and urban contexts through
humor, satire, and irony. Through a combination of print, painting, installation, and
sculpture, (Sub)Urban explores our contemporary surroundings and the underlying
psychology of our modern living environments. Benjamin Roger’s paintings depict the
banality of our interior lives, the ways we live when we are secure in our homes, while
Sang-Mi Yoo’s prints and installations emphasize the mundane repetition of our planned
communities. Christine Buckton Tillman’s sculptures, Yoonmi Nam’s prints and sculptures
and Amze Emmon’s cutouts and prints refigure items from our homes and streets that are
ordinarily dismissed as meaningless refuse. Finally, Nick Satinover’s print installation
visualizes the basest feelings behind most people’s day-to-day lives.
These artists work in varying media, but their underlying interests coalesce around our
diverse experiences of space, identity, consumption, and labor as immigrants,
transplants, and minorities living in the contemporary built environment of late capitalism.
They examine items from our houses and our streets, presenting them in new ways and
bringing new associations to them, and in the process they uncover unexpected
narratives that shape the ways we dwell within the rush of modern life. (Sub)Urban is on
view at the Stamp Gallery at the University of Maryland, College Park, October 30
through December 16, 2017. An opening reception will take place on November 1,
5–7pm, in the Stamp Gallery. This event is free and open to the public.