Fuzzy Fields at Understory

UNDERSTORY, an artist-run gallery championing new and emerging voices, is dedicated to driving discourse with Fuzzy Fields, opening May 13. In this exhibition, artists Susan Snipes and Jamie Zimchek explore the fuzzy fields that form around unresolved sites and across indeterminate time.

SUSAN SNIPES

My new works consider fuzzy fields as spaces where physical and digital connections coalesce but remain incomplete. I use fields as sites of activity—places that register presence, touch, and duration without resolving into fixed images or specific narratives. These works emerge from my interest in how communication persists across time and distance, often lingering as traces and memories of exchanges. By engaging written correspondence and processes shaped by light and exposure, I think about writing as gesture, residue, and embodied action rather than the explicit meaning of a message. Here, fuzzy fields operate as temporal spans and places of not knowing, where connection drifts, overlaps, and resists certainty.

JAMIE ZIMCHEK

Much of my recent work revolves around an exploration of the stories told by dominant power systems to shape social constructs and reinforce strategic self-interests. In modernity, measured in nanoseconds, binary strings allow the mass distribution of mass narratives to mass audiences—a global deluge of information. Meanwhile, simple marks made in dark, prehistoric cave shelters stubbornly defy our impulses to decipher meaning and penetrate the temporal thickness of many millennia. These contrasts and the cloudiness shrouding deep time are my current studio focus, setting the stage for varied visual explorations that reference prehistory but also broad social and personal life changes. These fuzzy and befuddling shifts are just as perplexing as the muddle of fact and fiction characteristic of contemporary public narratives.

UNDERSTORY is focused on exhibiting interdisciplinary and conceptual work by regional and emerging artists and promoting experimental art, creative dialogue, and community engagement.

Join us for the opening reception of Fuzzy Fields from 5 to 8 pm on Wednesday, May 13, at UNDERSTORY, located on the RAMP (lower level) at 78th Street Studios in Cleveland.

UNDERSTORY
AT 78TH STREET STUDIOS
1305 West 80th Street, Suite 019
Cleveland, Ohio 44102
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EVENTS:

From WOMAN 19 in 2026, through April 18

Fuzzy Fields: New work by Susan Snipes and Jamie Zimchek, May 13–June 20. Opening reception 5-8 pm Wednesday, May 13