UNDERSTORY, an artist-run gallery championing new and emerging voices, is dedicated to driving discourse with Darkness, opening July 15. Darkness probes the moist inner workings of the places we are often most unwilling to go: our bodies, our racial identities, and even the ground under our feet. The works in this exhibition challenge the sterility, generational shame, and white supremacy […]
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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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“I am doll eyes, doll mouth, doll legsI am doll arms, big veins, dog begsI want to be the girl with the most cakeI fake it so real, I am beyond fake.”– Courtney Love/Hole, 1994 Power Exchange Rate (PER) examines how one’s bodily intimacies and understanding are shaped, regulated, and contested within the structures of capital and power. Through a feminist […]
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Power Exchange Rate examines how intimacy is shaped, regulated, and contested within capitalist systems. Through a feminist and queer lens, this exhibition traces how personal experiences—relationships, gender, pleasure, and the body—are shaped by broader economic and political forces. It exposes intimacy as a site of exchange. These works show how systems of control dictate and commodify personal experience. The exhibition […]
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Sports, spectacle, and social critique converge at UNDERSTORY in And the Crowd Goes Wild, running October 15 through November 29. Co-curators Susan Snipes and Naomi Even-Aberle present artists who question the structures behind athletic culture and reframe sport as a vehicle for storytelling, resistance, and social commentary. Sport is far more than a game. This exhibition positions the athletic arena […]
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UNDERSTORY, an artist-run gallery championing new and emerging voices, is dedicated to driving discourse with Your Attention, Please, opening June 18. Political commentator Chris Hayes writes, “every single aspect of human life across the broadest categories of human organization is being reoriented around the pursuit of attention.” This exhibition, showcasing the work of eight regional and national artists, asks what […]
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Is it audacious to hope now? Is it possible to figure out the daily, touch the ineffable, and make visible the swirling turmoil of the world (whether that world is rooted in the past or located with GPS coordinates)? Nine contemporary artists answer these questions in Reverberations, on view through September 28, 2024 at Understory Gallery. Reverberations also features an […]
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