This year, Mary Urbas, long-time curator of From Woman, returned to Understory to mount part of her large-scale, annual exhibition, now in its 19th iteration. As in 2025, art is spread across multiple spaces. In chronological order of their openings, they were at the McDonough Museum at Youngstown State University (January 20–February 28) : Lake Erie College’s BK Smith Gallery […]
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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 […]
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In the old Looney Tunes Road Runner cartoons, there’s a recurring idea of suspense: that some dramatic action is about to happen, often involving gravity, but sometimes due to some other form of tension retained. We know from experience that something is probably going to go wrong for the Coyote. He has balanced a gigantic boulder precariously, high up on […]
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