Sang-Mi Yoo, “In Transition” - Born in Korea and living in Lubbock, Tex., Sang-Mi Yoo created a felt cut of an identical house repeated four times, mimicking the sameness of cookie-cutter subdivisions. Looking closely, though, viewers can see that, because the two layers of paper aren’t attached, there are subtle differences: a bulging doorpost here, a sagging beam there, suggesting that, both in the artwork and in real life, no two homes—or the families that live in them—are identical.
Urban Jumble
At Stamp Gallery, Everyday Life is the Star
Don’t see much beauty in an ATM or your to-go coffee cup? Look again.
In “(Sub)Urban,” a new exhibit on view through Dec. 16 at the Stamp Gallery, six artists turn the stuff of everyday urban and suburban life—takeout containers, traffic cones, kitchens with a sink full of dirty dishes—into art. Curator Matthew McLaughlin, an artist and instructor at UMD, says that the artists showcased share “a humorous or satirical viewing of urban and suburban spaces.”
The show’s strength, says McLaughlin, is in its “diversity that’s shown in not only the viewpoints and ways in which each artist is interpreting urban and suburban spaces” but also in the nationalities, backgrounds and geographic locations represented. McLaughlin also hopes that the variety of techniques and styles seen in the show will inspire artistically inclined UMD students and visitors to experiment in their own work.
Click through to see and read about five of the works on display.
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