Past Exhibitions
Lights Off at 8 pm
September 2 – October 11, 2025
Featuring Jerrell Gibbs, Lolo Gem, Margaret Walker, Jiangshengyu Nova Pan, and Sara Dittrich.
Curated by Júlia Sodré.
Lights Off at 8 pm was a group exhibition featuring artists that approach memory as inherently fluid and ever-shifting, capable of evoking different emotions—love, grief, joy, anxiety, fear—at once and across time. Rather than seeking to preserve the past, these artists embrace the distortion, abstraction, and reinvention of memories, inviting the audience to consider alternative ways of remembering.
Portraits of the Most Known
June 16 - August 15, 2025
Featuring Lucy Bryan, Mike Byson, Jessica Cherry, Handirubvi Herring, Roya Honarvar, Nicole Maloof, Grace Orellana, Heather Roselle, Varvara Tokareva, Mehmet Uskul, and Samantha Van Heest.
Curated Emma Newkirk.
Portraits of the Most Known was a group exhibition that invites conversations surrounding identities and explorations of the unknown. Portraits of the unknown, wherein subjects remain unidentified, encourage viewers to look more closely in an attempt to draw an interpretation of human life from little more than the form presented. Each artwork in this exhibition explores interpretations of portraits of the unknown through depictions of human experience and identity beyond a name. Portraits of the Most Known is part of a summer series of student-curated exhibitions.
This is a long exposure
April 21 - May 21, 2025
Featuring Jeffery Hampshire and Julia Reising
Chiefly working to recontextualize architectures and environments, Jeffery Hampshire and Julia Reising construct an exhibition that offers moments of renewed perspective. Playing with the idea of still life in motion, the works present a layered and durational approach to what images can hold when time becomes a keystone in their making. This is a long exposure is both a departure from the familiar and a homecoming, returning to the places, things, and ideas of our environments with fresh eyes.
Open Ended Narratives: Mixed Media Assemblages on Wood by Schroeder Cherry
February 18 - April 5, 2025
Open Ended Narratives: Mixed Media Assemblages on Wood by Schroeder Cherry was a solo exhibition of assemblage artwork by multidisciplinary artist Schroeder Cherry. Cherry’s uses mixed-media assemblage painting to create open-ended narratives inspired by travel, folklore, and events, frequently drawing on stories of the African diaspora.
2024 Juried Student Winter Show
December 16, 2024 - February 7, 2025
Featuring Hannah Chen, Kaitlin Dan, Jasmine Hall, Tom Hill, Vainavi Gambhir, Jasjot Kaur Gill, Krista Goettel, Sydney Grant, Casey Kenreich, Yu-ling Lai and Tzuyu Jeng, Neal Machado, Aakriti Sapkota, John L. Stock, Chase Thompson, Kurt Wass, and Sophia Winner.
The 2024 Juried Student Exhibition was part of our annual displays of artwork created by University of Maryland students. The included artworks were carefully selected by a guest juror from a large pool of anonymous submissions by students across campus.
We Live in the Sky: Home, Displacement, Identity
October 16 - December 7, 2024
Featuring Tori Ellison and Mami Takahashi.
We Live in the Sky: Home, Displacement, Identity, by Tori Ellison and Mami Takahashi. Takahashi’s sound collage and videos accompany Ellison’s sculpture and prints made with UMD MFA student/teacher Varvara Tokareva, which incorporate UMD writing students’ poetic phrases about home and place. The central symbol is the swift, the bird that lives aloft for years, sleeps on the wing, drifting through clouds, drinking raindrops. UMD and George Mason University teacher Ellison, a former Guggenheim editor and LA Weekly art critic, focuses on the body, absence and transformation in art collected by the cities of Seattle, Inglewood, and Paul Allen’s Vulcan Inc. Takahashi’s art explores life as a woman far from her Tokyo home. Both have exhibited in 11 American states and abroad.
The Digital Landscape
August 26 - October 5, 2024
Featuring Mollye Bendell, Ally Christmas, Chris Combs, Billy Friebele, Michelle Lisa Herman, and Kat Navarro.
Curated by Tara Youngborg.
The Digital Landscape exhibited artists using a variety of technological media to both reinterpret and understand the physical environment as well as the ways in which the digital landscape is overlaid with the physical. Through their engagement with media from animation to augmented reality, machine learning, video, and photography the artists expand our sense of time and space through our digital experiences. These artworks examine and interact with the ways in which our digital environments are socially constructed, just as our ideas about borders, identity, and even what constitutes “nature” are products of historically determined systems.
The History of a Hand
July 12 - August 16, 2024
Featuring Anne Bouie, Nikki Brooks, Dre Burciaga, Chris Combs, Rhemi Elzie, Jasmine Hall, Noël Kassewitz, Christie R. Krimsky, Mehveş Lelic, Jak Lunsford, Maddie Olek, Julia Reising, Jill McCarthy Stauffer, Livi Stotler, Marisa Stratton, and Luke Walter.
The History of a Hand was a group exhibition which engages with the profound impact of human actions and interactions on individual lives and the broader world. This exhibition explores how seemingly mundane or everyday actions can leave a lasting imprint on our perceptions, relationships, and the fabric of society itself. Each artwork featured in the exhibition serves as a testament to the intricate narrative of human experience, inviting viewers to reflect on their own roles in shaping the world around them. The History of a Hand is part of a summer series of student-curated exhibitions.
Palinopsia
April 23 - May 17, 2024
Featuring Jill McCarthy Stauffer, Margaret Walker, Trevon Jakaar Coleman, and Varvara Tokareva.
In the exhibition Palinopsia, Jill McCarthy Stauffer, Margaret Walker, Trevon Jakaar Coleman, and Varvara Tokareva bring memory to the forefront of experience. Sculpture, photography, electronic art, projection, painting, and screenprinting are utilized as tools to re/create imprints of what echoes from each artists’ experiences. Each artist explores the ways in which images, events, and relationships linger in the personal and collective mind of place, culture, and time: emphasizing its malleability, playing with its perception, and considering how it relates to memory. Ultimately, this exhibition asks: how can materials be used to investigate the multitude of ways we experience time and construct the meaning it holds?
2024 Juried Student Exhibition
February 5 - February 24, 2024
Featuring Maryam Ali, Ariana Boyd, Deli Chen, Isabella Chilcoat, Helen Feng, Krista Goettel, Jasmine Hall, Gina Lee, Atticus Nemeroff, Grace Orellana, Rafael Rodriguez, Alyssa Ross, John L. Stock, and Caitlin Yan.
2024 Juried Student Exhibition was an annual display of artwork created by University of Maryland students. The included artworks were carefully selected by a guest juror from a large pool of anonymous submissions by students across campus.
Placeholder
October 10 - December 9, 2023
Featuring Elliot Doughtie, Richard Hart, Danni O’Brien, and James Williams II.
Placeholder was an exhibition dedicated to the proxy, the metaphor, the stand-in. Elliot Doughtie, Richard Hart, Danni O’Brien, and James Williams II contend with the power of materials and images to invoke what is absent, elsewhere, postponed, or in hiding. These four artists test the limits of the alternate, whether by substituting the inert for the living, the imagined for the real, or the partial for the whole.
What We Do After
August 28 - September 30, 2023
Featuring Rachel Garber Cole, Homosocial, Megan Lewis, Beverly Price, Gabriella Vainsencher, Ingrid Weyland, and Jenny Wu.
The 2022-2023 CAPP (Contemporary Art Purchasing Program) Committee (Emily Boa, Isabella Chilcoat, Rachel [Rae] Leonberger, Alicia Perkovich, and Raphael Ukpelegbu) spent a year researching, writing, discussing, and conducting studio and gallery visits. The result of this work is a collection of artworks which reflect their interests and concerns as University of Maryland students and global citizens in 2023. Their decision-making was guided by four self-determined principles: critical compassion, process as art, equitable sourcing, and deliberative dialogue. Following these tenets, the Committee sought out works that synthesize critique with methods of sincerity, joy, and resilience; engage process as an essential source of artistic value and meaning; demonstrate materially and socially sustainable practices; and spark meaningful conversations among our diverse campus populations and between artworks throughout the CAPP collection. The new acquisitions will be installed in the study spaces, lounges, and corridors of the Adele H. Stamp Student Union—Center for Campus Life for the daily study, inspiration, and enjoyment of students, staff, faculty, and visitors.
Love is destructive./ I need you.
July 24 - August 19, 2023
Featuring Arleen Seed, Ashley Jaye Williams, Britt Sankofa, Noah McWilliams, Samantha Van Heest, Sanju Kottapalli, Sara Caporaletti, Trevon Coleman, and Varvara Tokareva.
Curated by Kamryn Dillon.
In the voice of the Ordinary Man who grapples with the unknown, Albert Camus writes, “I don’t know whether this world has meaning that transcends it. But I know that I do not know that meaning and that it is impossible for me just to know it… I cannot reconcile it.” Camus’s essay, The Myth of Sisyphus, questions a quintessential part of the human condition: is life worth living? Love is destructive./I need you., whose title is parallel to the alternative ending of the landmark anime Neon Genesis Evangelion, follows the Ordinary Man’s descent into depression, desire for meaning, and finally his choice between rejecting or accepting the Absurd. For this exhibition, the artists explore our persistent struggle juggling an abundance of free will in a world with no tangible answers.
Mixing Signals
June 12 - July 14, 2023
Featuring Jason Ting, Tachyons+, and Analog_Mannequin.
Curated by Oliver Foley.
This summer, the Stamp Gallery presents Mixing Signals, an all-video exhibition featuring the simultaneous screenings of works by three video artists. This exhibition brings together two different realms of video: glitch art and generative art. Although the works of these artists differ in approach and visual form, they are united through a shared fascination in experimentation, repetition, and chaotic beauty. In the words of mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot, “Bottomless wonders spring from simple rules, which are repeated without end.”
Limbshift
April 20, 2023 - May 19, 2023
Featuring Dan Ortiz Leizman and Kenneth Hilker.
Limbshift presents the work of second year MFA students Dan Ortiz Leizman and Kenneth Hilker, who explore the boundaries of the body and its relationship to the world. Through their distinctive approaches, Hilker and Ortiz Leizman offer new ways of thinking about human experience and its potentialities.
UNFOLD
January 30, 2022 - April 1, 2023
Featuring Hoesy Corona, Elliot Doughtie, HH Hiaasen, Mojdeh Rezaeipour.
Bringing together the diverse practices of four DMV-area artists, UNFOLD engages with the significance and possibilities of garments beyond their practical and ornamental functions. The works of Hoesy Corona, Elliot Doughtie, HH Hiaasen, and Mojdeh Rezaeipour direct attention toward clothing’s power to expose, conceal, assimilate, distinguish, comfort, alienate, protect, and transform. When “unfolded,” clothing can be understood to mediate connections between public and private, human and non-human, self and other—in effect complicating these binaries. Through sculpture, textiles, drawing, mixed media, and more, UNFOLD positions clothing as a dynamic site of becoming, capable of organizing identities and setting them in motion. This exhibition is supported in part by the Maryland State Arts Council.
Unspoken Volumes: Hae Won Sohn
August 29, 2022 - October 8, 2022
Unspoken Volumes was a solo exhibition featuring the work of New York-based artist Hae Won Sohn. The exhibition brings together a new body of work including sculpture and digital media described collectively by the artist as “an attempt to allow the unspoken forms speak their volume by magnifying boundaries, outlining blurs, and tracing gray areas that form between.”
Snapshots of our New Normal: Uniting and Envisioning a Better World
June 14, 2022 - August 12, 2022
Building on the unifying relationship forged between UMD’s art education program and Bowie State University’s art studio program after the murder of Richard Collins III, UMD and BSU students designed and facilitated a multi-media community-based art piece at the NextNow Festival in September 2021, drawing the participation of 200+ festival attendees. The work is a series of individual artworks created by participants at the arts festival based on the prompt “Snapshots of our new normal: uniting as a global family to create a better world for tomorrow” that were combined into digital collages by our student artists. These digital collages have spread around the College Park and Bowie communities in the form of wheat-pasted posters, postcards, large vinyl stickers, and light projections. In addition, BSU students participating in a digital arts course created a website and video documentary of the project.
Distinct Chatter
April 18, 2022 - May 20, 2022
Featuring Mercedes, Hosna Shahramipoor, and Charlotte Richardson-Deppe.
Distinct Chatter was an exhibition featuring three artists in the second year of MFA candidacy in the Department of Art at the University of Maryland, College Park: Mercedes, Hosna Shahramipoor, and Charlotte Richardson-Deppe. In Distinct Chatter, Mercedes, Shahramipoor, and Richardson-Deppe bring attention to absence. Through interactivity, experimentation, sculpture, photography, and sound, they react to the forces of the world. The artists situate instances of silence and being silenced by attending to holes, punctures, lapses, fractures, and imperfections. While each of the artists makes work in reaction to their lived experiences, they hope to move beyond the fixed identities of woman, queer, Latinx, or Middle Eastern. Instead, they work within and outside of what it means to be an artist, with each one searching for qualities that lie at the core of common humanity. This exhibition and programming is supported by the Maryland State Arts Council (msac.org) and a Pepsi Grant.
alternate universe: visualizing queer futurisms
February 10, 2022 - April 6, 2022
Featuring Camila Tapia-Guilliams and micha cárdenas.
Curated by Marjorie Antonio.
Alternate universe: visualizing queer futurisms was a two-person exhibition featuring artwork by Camila Tapia-Guilliams and micha cárdenas. This curated exhibition places themes of speculative futures, queerness, gender, and survival in conversation with our current world. A juxtaposition of different mediums and focuses, from augmented reality artwork, game design and trans of color theory, to mixed-media and cooperative and anti-capitalist work, alternate universe ultimately engages in the questions: What are the responses to the current state of our universe, our Earth, our world as queer/queered people? And how do we create and build alternate universes to survive?
Yams, Tomatoes, Potatoes, and Plums
October 25 - December 2021
Featuring Works by Esther Bruno Nangala, Naata Nungurrayi, Jeannie Mills Pwerle, Lorna Ward Napanangka, Ningura Napurulla, Angelina Pwerle, Josepha Petrick Kemarre, Kathleen Ngala, Polly Ngale, Lorna Fencer Napurulla, Bessie Petyarre, Judy Watson Napangardi, Faith Butler, Stella Multkatana, Yinarupa Nangala, Tarisse King, and Tilau Nangala.
Yams, Tomatoes, Potatoes, and Plums was an exhibition that celebrated the bush tucker of First Nations Australia in paintings created by contemporary Indigenous Australian artists. On view October 25 through December 2021, the works in this exhibition feature imagery of Central Australian bush tucker. The term bush tucker refers to tucker (food) from the bush (bush referring to land – nature – the outback). Plant and insect foods are described in highly figurative and mystically abstract bush tucker paintings.
New Arrivals 2021
August 30 - October 16, 2021
Featuring Works by Rushern Baker, Akea Brionne Brown, Faith Couch, Kei Ito, and Edgar Reyes.
New Arrivals 2021 was an exhibition of artwork acquired this year by the University’s Contemporary Art Purchasing Program (CAPP). On view August 30 through October 16, 2021, the exhibition features seven artworks by five emerging and mid-career artists. All completed within the two years, the works come from artists connected to the Baltimore-Washington area.
Amidst
April 12 - May 15, 2021
Amidst was an exhibition featuring three artists in the second year of MFA candidacy in the Department of Art at the University of Maryland, College Park: Martin Gonzales, Elizabeth Katt, and Alyssa Imes.
In Focus: Representations of Black Womanhood
February 8 - March 27, 2021
Featuring André Terrel Jackson, Akea Brionne Brown, and Sadia Alao.
Curated by Brianna Nunez.
In Focus: Representations of Black Womanhood was an exhibition of artwork to inspire dialogue and reflection on identity. On view February 8 through March 27, 2021, the exhibition features ten artworks by three emerging and mid-career artists. In dual contradiction and in spite of the limitations associated with ‘black’ and ‘woman’ and the other identities embodied in each individual, André Terrel Jackson, Akea Brionne Brown, and Sadia Alao seek to answer these questions for themselves and diversify the narrative of what it means to be a black woman in today’s America.
Connected Diaspora: Central American Visuality in the Age of Social Media
September 21 - December 12, 2020
Featuring Eddy Leonel Aldana, Galileo Gonzalez, Kim LaVonne, Glenda Lissette, Dennissé Carlota Nieto Zelaya, Jessy DeSantis, Xiomara Garay, Celea Guevara, Kimberly Benavides, Veronica Melendez, Elizabeth Fernanda Rodriguez, Kiara Machado, Julia Mata, Juan Madrid, Isidra Sabio, Paulino Celestino Mejia, Keith L Torres, and Johanna Toruño.
Curated by Veronica Melendez.
This exhibition casts light on a new generation of artists who visually reflect on U.S Central American lives and experiences in the era of social media. These new voices from the Central American diaspora have built a creative community that transcends state lines and borders. Their practices range from delicate ceramic sculptures to large scale paintings to digital art—exploring images of displacement, war, and trauma. Contemplations on everyday life, nature, and architecture, coupled with insights on invisibility and empowerment, are all manifested in this visual assembly. Central Americans make up the third largest U.S Latinx group—a statistic that is not equally reflected when referencing Latinx art. Beyond news articles, Central Americans in the diaspora are a creative force leading the way to a more expansive discourse on Latinx Art.
Not Your Model Minority: Pandemic, Proximity, and Power
August 5 - September 5, 2020
Featuring works by Antonius-Tín Bui, stephanie mei huang, payal kumar, Selina Lee, and Nibha Akireddy.
Curated by Marjorie Antonio.
Not Your Model Minority: Pandemic, Proximity, and Power is a response to the wave of anti-Asian rhetoric and violence surrounding the “Chinese virus” and the critical self-evaluation of Asian American positionality in the movement for Black Lives and earlier histories of Black and Asian solidarities. In the mid-1900s, Asian Americans, as a group, were labeled as the racial “Model Minority” for their supposed achievement of a higher degree of socioeconomic success in comparison to other racial minority groups, most notably Black Americans. Yet, how can we challenge the idea of race--commonly understood as a socially-constructed notion of difference--as an instrument of empire? Where do Asian Americans fall in relation to other minority groups as a result of larger interrelated struggles of land, labor, and empire?
Curtains
April 30 - May 14, 2020
Curtains was series of videos highlighting the University of Maryland's second- year MFA Candidates and their work. Join us on STAMP's Youtube channel on these Thursdays at 6pm for these premieres: youtube.com/umdstamptv
Neuro Blooms: Mixed Media Art by Leslie Holt
February 12 - March 28, 2020
Leslie Holt’s “Brain Stain” series exploits the aesthetic qualities of PET brain scans of people experiencing mental health conditions. Holt combines solid areas of stitched embroidery thread with saturated acrylic paint stains. The translation of digital imagery into the handmade is a metaphor for the integration of scientific data with more nuanced and subjective experience. The Brain Stains combine objective data with a more poetic interpretation as a reflection of both corporeal and clinical experiences of mental illness. These works engage viewers with the science and lived experience of mental illness, but also with the hopes of creating conversation around and destigmatizing mental illness.
Winter Juried Student Exhibition
December 18, 2019 - February 3, 2020
The Gallery's inaugural juried exhibition of student artwork to be held during the Winter Session. Artwork in this exhibition will be displayed on the walls in front of the windows of our gallery during the winter session; all forms of media, including 2-D, 3-D and digital works.
Still Here: Art on HIV/AIDS
October 29 - December 7, 2019
Featuring work by Antonius-Tín Bui, Shan Kelley, John Paradiso, Lucas Rougeux, and panels from the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt.
Still Here: Art on HIV/AIDS, an exhibition of contemporary artwork on HIV/AIDS in dialogue with panels from The NAMES Project Foundation AIDS Memorial Quilt. Much has changed since The Stamp Gallery last hosted The Quilt in the 1980s, but what political, social, and medical barriers to prevention and treatment remain? On view October 29th through December 7th, this exhibition included programming on World Aids Day and Day With(out) Art, December 1st. The Stamp Gallery also partnered with Visual AIDS to present STILL BEGINNING, a program of seven newly commissioned videos responding to the ongoing HIV/AIDS epidemic by Shanti Avirgan, Nguyen Tan Hoang, Carl George, Viva Ruiz, Iman Shervington, Jack Waters/Victor F.M. Torres, and Derrick Woods-Morrow.
CAPP New Acquisitions 2019
September 11 - October 20, 2019
Featuring work by Karlo Ibarra, Noel Kassewitz, Diane Meyer, Lester Rodríguez, Rachel Schmidt, Shinji Turner-Yamamoto, and Letha Wilson.
Curated by the 2018-2019 CAPP Committee: Jacky Cruz-Castillo, Kari Gillman, Rina Goldman, Sydney Wess, and Ruoyu Wu.
An exhibition of artwork acquired this year by the University’s Contemporary Art Purchasing Program (CAPP). On view September 11 through October 20, 2019, the exhibition features ten artworks by seven emerging and mid-career artists. All completed within the last decade, these works address the omnipresent sense of displacement caused by societal and environmental crises. The works span mediums from sculptures, video, mixed-media, photography, and light installation, including both a diversity of mediums and of voices in the collection of pieces.
Radical Threads
July 22 - August 31, 2019
Featuring Hazel Batrezchaves, Gulia Huber, and Katrina Majkut.
Curated by Erin Allen.
Radical Threads was an exhibition that investigates the treatment and politicization of traditionally feminine-coded mediums throughout art history and into the modern day.
UN/Sustainable
June 5 - July 12, 2019
Featuring George Lorio, Susanne Slavick, Zelda Zinn, Katie Kehoe, and Samantha DiRosa.
Curated by Kat Mullineaux.
As we confront shifting environmental realities, the influence of policy past and present, and the impact of such things on humanity, art can serve as a starting point for change. Artists stand at the forefront, using their stories to open the eyes of viewers and reflect upon their own relationships to the physical world. UN/Sustainable presents one of the many questions that we as global citizens must answer: Are our ways of existing sustainable?
RESIDUUM
April 11 - May 25, 2019
Featuring Lauren G. Koch, Jeremy Thomas Kunkel, Matthew Robertson, and Michael Thron.
Visualizing Narratives: Shaping Resistance
February 13 - March 30, 2019
Featuring work by Becci Davis, Malik Lloyd, Leah Modigliani, Susanne Slavick, and TUG Collective.
Protests and opposition movements have long been a social tool by which to mobilize groups of people around shared grievances, allowing them to collectively interrogate power structures and enact change through the discursive processes of resistance. Various forms of protest have been an important point at which resistance enters the public space and gains broader visibility, often through images that become symbols of the movement. The images produced around protests and resistance movements thus play a larger role in shaping narratives for public consumption. This exhibition thus seeks to explore the role of visual production around protests and forms of resistance. It will consider such questions as: How do artists monumentalize and memorialize acts of resistance in their work? In what ways does the media visually shape narratives around protests or resistance movements? In what ways does artwork respond to, reshape, interrogate, or blur broader narratives? What role does the mass dissemination of images – by artists and the public via new media – play in shaping public perception of protests and resistance movements?
Mirrored Re-Collection
November 1 - December 15, 2018
Featuring Sepideh Salehi and Sobia Ahmad.
In this exhibition, the artists examine issues related to national identity and belonging, cultural memory, the notion of home, and gender. They incorporate aspects of storytelling and weave their personal histories into broader cultural fabrics, the two often intersecting in difficult ways. Their work prompts us to consider: What is the relationship between personal narrative and larger structures of power? How do artists, especially women, use their work to navigate complex political and social terrains?
Pink is a Color That Feels Like Love
August 29 - October 15, 2018
Featuring Damien Davis, Brandon Dean, and Delano Dunn.
Curated by Katy Scarlett.
Pink is a Color That Feels Like Love brought together three artists, Damien Davis, Brandon Dean, and Delano Dunn, whose work is deeply invested in the formal use of color paired with recognizable motifs in order to reflect on issues of representation. The artists address stereotypes related to race, gender, sexuality, and class, figuring color imbued with broader cultural meaning as a central subject in order to critique dominant paradigms.
VOX LACUNAE
July 18 - August 22, 2018
Featuring Sobia Ahmad, Sera Boeno, Marta Gutierrez, Nilou Kazemzadeh, Jason Kuo, Kim Llerena, and Yuli Wang.
Curated by Grace DeWitt.
The Stamp Gallery presents VOX LACUNAE, a multidisciplinary exhibition that investigates the intersection of languages, visual art, and peoples in a globalized era. The exhibition features work in a variety of media by Sobia Ahmad, Sera Boeno, Marta Gutierrez, Nilou Kazemzadeh, Jason Kuo, Kim Llerena, and Yuli Wang. VOX LACUNAE is curated by gallery manager, Grace DeWitt, recent graduate from UMCP. A pop-up library, created collaboratively with exhibiting artists and the Art Library at UMCP, will be available in the exhibition for visitors to investigate related concepts further.
Capital Lives
May 30 - July 4, 2018
Featuring Bo Chen, Sydney Gray, Sarah O’donoghue, Brea Soul, Christine Stoddard, and Nevada Tyler.
Capital Lives explores the diversity of lived experiences in Washington, D.C., through photography. the exhibition highlights the work of young photographers documenting the residents and events of the nation’s capital during a time of heightened political tension. capital lives is the stamp gallery’s annual docent-curated exhibition, curated by gallery staff member Katherine Mullineaux (UMCP ’18), currently an undergraduate student at the University of Maryland. the exhibition includes photography and textual works.
False Monarchy
January 24 - March 17, 2018
Featuring Kyle Kogut.
Curated by Raino Isto.
This solo exhibition presents a collection of new installations, sculptures, and drawings by Kogut, all examining the disturbing effects of America’s continued attachment to the myth of heavy industry as a miraculous source of economic growth and consumer euphoria. Kogut—the son of an auto mechanic—works in response to his own family background and upbringing, considering how narratives of the artist’s creative expression relate to labor and mortality. The work in False Monarchy includes drawings influenced by the visual idiom of American automotive propaganda as well as the precision of Northern Renaissance draughtsmanship. It also features sculptures and video installation work that combine the soundscapes of drone metal with the meditative environments and symbology of the occult, encouraging critical overidentification with the metaphysical structures of American late capitalism.
(Sub)Urban
October 25 - December 16, 2017
Featuring Amze Emmons, Sang-Mi Yoo, Yoonmi Nam, Benjamin Rogers, Nick Satinover, and Christine Buckton Tillman.
Curated by Matthew McLaughlin.
A group exhibition of artwork that questions the reality of suburban and urban environments through humor, satire and irony. The work in the exhibition offers a wide range of interpretations of our man-made spaces. Through a combination of artists who work in print, painting, installation and sculpture,(Sub)Urban will present a well-rounded exploration of the contemporary surroundings. Benjamin Roger’s paintings explore the banality of the interior of our lives, once we are secure in our homes, while Sang-Mi Yoo’s work emphasizes the banality of our planned communities. Yoonmi Nam and Christine Buckton Tillman’s sculptures and Amze Emmon’s cutouts re-present items from our homes and streets that are ordinarily dismissed as being meaningless, and finally, Nick Satinover’s print installation visualizes the basest feelings behind most people’s day to day lives. These artists work in varying mediums and concepts, but their underlying interests explore different aspects of our suburban and urban experiences as men, women, immigrants and minorities.
New Arrivals 2017: CAPP New Acquisitions
August 28 - October 14, 2017
Featuring Margaret Boozer, Zoë Charlton, Martine Gutierrez, Kakyoung Lee, Nate Lewis, Sophia Narrett, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Paul Rucker, and K. Yoland.
Curated by the 2016-2017 CAPP Committee: Rachael Carruthers, Grace DeWitt, Nicolay Duque-Robayo, Kathleen Hubbard, Damon King, and Sarang Yeola.
Over the past year, six undergraduate students from a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds shared a single mission: to collaboratively select for the University of Maryland’s permanent collection a body of contemporary artwork that would prove relevant, sincere, and significant to all individuals who enter the STAMP Student Union, independent of their prior relationship to the arts. The resulting acquisitions, currently on view in the gallery, come from our committee’s understanding that beauty can be a point of access for people, and that strength can be intertwined with vulnerability. It comes from our dissatisfaction with gaps in perspective, and how these gaps are filled in by power. It comes from our desire to justly portray people's needs and hopes, and to acknowledge that every experience has a history and a future. It comes from championing inclusivity and intersectionality, and confronting gentrification, misrepresentation, and oversimplification. It comes from adamantly believing in the communicative potential of visual language. In an unpredictable, frightening, and consistently challenging time in our history, it is the hope of the 2016−2017 CAPP Committee that New Arrivals will stand as a reminder of the inextricably complicated, and yet incredibly resilient, connectivity of all people. It is the committee's hope that works created from empathy, will perpetuate it.
I'm Fine
June 5 - July 28, 2017
Featuring Emma Brand, Rachael Carruthers, Brandon Chambers, Dana Hollister, Tam-anh Nguyen, Nicole Osborne, and Susannah Ward.
Curated by Tasiana Paolisso and Sarah Schurman
Fueled by an interest in the notion of art as a means of catharsis, I’m Fine presents artworks that investigate narratives of personality, process, and release. Whether art-making amplifies emotions or mitigates them, all creative endeavors echo one step in the process of self-exploration. The works in the exhibition examine and respond to the following questions: How does the practice of making art participate in (or disrupt) the process of personal development? Can art adequately translate the variable ways conceptions of “self” operate? How does creativity alleviate or intensify emotion? In what ways does art comment on—and participate in—mental health and self-care? To what extent is art a mouthpiece for the mind in flux or an independent and evolving entity?
MIDPOINT '17
March 29 - May 22, 2017
Featuring Jessica van Brakle, Hugh Condrey Bryant, and Beki Basch.
Midpoint is an annual exhibition featuring work by artists in the second year of MFA candidacy in the Department of Art at the University of Maryland, College Park.
Collective Monument
January 25 - March 11, 2017
Featuring Onejoon Che, Nara Park, and The DZT Collective.
Curated by Raino Isto.
The exhibition concluded with a multidisciplinary graduate symposium, 'Monumental Form/ Memorial Time,' featuring a keynote lecture by New York artist Lisi Raskin on March 10 and panels of graduate student research papers on March 11, 2017.
Black Maths
October 31 - December 10, 2016
Featuring Adam Holofcener and Antonio McAfee.
Curated by Cecilia Wichmann.
In Black Maths, Baltimore-based artists Adam Holofcener and Antonio McAfee use audio recordings and photography to investigate the complex equations by which the past operates on the present. The exhibition opens a dialogue between Holofcener’s quadrophonic sound installation Upresting (2015–2016) and McAfee’s Counter-Archive Project (2011–present). Holofcener’s Upresting channels field recordings from the 2015 Baltimore Uprising into a sound environment that simulates the shifting acoustical sensations of a body navigating a protest. Visitors are invited to speak into a microphone to hear their voices become a multitude. McAfee’s Counter-Archive Project addresses the complexity of representation, transforming black-and-white portrait photographs taken for The Exhibition of American Negroes organized by W.E.B. Dubois, Thomas Calloway, and Historic Black Colleges at the Paris 1900 International Exposition. By manipulating and layering this source material, and then amplifying and recombining it in a shared space, Black Maths invites visitors to bring their own bodies to bear in an active, visceral encounter with themselves and across time.
Paradise Now
August 29 - October 15, 2016
Curated by Stamp Gallery docents Christopher Bugtong, Grace DeWitt, and Shay Tyndall.
This fall, the Stamp Gallery presents Paradise Now, a project by Baltimore-based artist Kimi Hanauer featuring work by Sydney Spann, Michael Stephens, and Nikki Lee. Paradise Now is a game of unequal circumstances and varying objectives. Open Rounds of Paradise Now have now ended, but visitors are invited to view projected images from the game rounds in the space. Additionally, a forthcoming publication will come out near the end of this year, chronicling the game as an experience.
Drawing Board
June 6 - July 29, 2016
Featuring Sobia Ahmad, Jasmine Alexander, Bekí Basch, Zac Benson, C.W. Brooks, Hugh Bryant, Rachael Carruthers, Grace DeWitt, Meirav Finn, Kevin Hird, Dana Hollister, Raino Isto, Nilou Kazemzadeh, Rachel Lebo, Vanessa Liminski, Grant McFarland, Korey Richardson, Dusty Rose, Leah Schaperow, Dane Winkler, Dominique Wohrer, and Jowita Wyszomirska.
An exhibition of drawings and sketches by graduate and undergraduate students at the University of Maryland takes visitors down the rabbit hole of the creative process. Selections vary wildly in size, orientation, attitude, and finish. Some drawings articulate plans for projects in other media—sculpture, installation, and performance—while others materialize intuitive, improvisational, or rule-based thinking. A communal drawing table stocked with supplies beckons visitors to make their own work to take home or add to the installation. Drawing Board remounted and expanded on Preparation as Practice: Current Grad Student Drawings, the inaugural project of the Laboratory Research Gallery on view January–February 2016. Laboratory is a research gallery operated by the Graduate Students at the University of Maryland-College Park, Art Department, C.W. Brooks, Director.
Midpoint 2016
March 24 - May 21, 2016
Featuring Zac Benson, C.W. Brooks, Kevin Hird, and Dominique Wohrer.
The four artists collectively curated the exhibition, selecting among their own recent work and producing new artworks in dialogue with the Stamp Gallery’s distinctive space.
CAPP at 10: The Shape of Remembering
January 28 - March 11, 2016
Featuring Derrick Adams, Alice Attie, Shimon Attie, Selin Balci, Wafaa Bilal, Jeff Brouws, Edward Burtynsky, Jeremy Dean, Hedieh Javanshir Ilchi, Patrick Jacobs, Luke Jerram, Simen Johan, Sarah Anne Johnson, Titus Kaphar, Doug Keyes, Jae Ko, Nate Larson and Marni Shindelman, Nikki S. Lee, Annu Palakunnathu Matthew, Linn Meyers, Maggie Michael, Jiha Moon, Jenny Morgan, John Paradiso, Elle Pérez, Jefferson Pinder, Dulce Pinzón, Barbara Probst, Susan Rankaitis, Ellington Robinson, and Lorna Simpson.
The 2015–2016 academic year marks the 10th anniversary of the University of Maryland’s Contemporary Art Purchasing Program (CAPP). Over the course of a decade, the collection—assembled through the talent and dedication of students at the University of Maryland—has grown to include some forty works of art by 33 artists from our region and around the world. Nearly all of this outstanding collection will be on view in a special retrospective exhibition filling the Stamp Gallery and surrounding spaces in the Adele H. Stamp Student Union—Center for Campus Life.
New Arrivals 2015: Collecting Contemporary Art at the University of Maryland
September 25 - December 18, 2015
Featuring Derrick Adams, Wafaa Bilal, Titus Kaphar, John Paradiso, Elle Pérez, and Ellington Robinson.
Nearly all completed within the last two years, these works explore intersecting contemporary experiences of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, global conflict, and personal identity. Spanning photography, printmaking, drawing, sculpture, and multimedia construction, they incorporate materials as diverse as gold leaf, asphalt paper, shrink wrap, crude oil, and repurposed furniture.
SEE ME: More Than How I Look
August 31 - September 11, 2015
An interactive project created by UMD Design and the SGA Diversity Committee in spring 2015 to address issues facing multicultural students and organizations at the University of Maryland.
In Response: Conversations Between Emerging Artists and Contemporary Work From The CAPP Collection
June 15 - July 31, 2015
Featuring Anna Engle, Gilbert White, John Ortiz, Maya Harrison, Nilou Kazemzadeh, Sana Manejwala, and Sobia Ahmad.
Curated by Genesis Henriquez, Korey Richardson, and Shay Tyndall.
Nomad World/El mundo nomada
Featuring Beatriz Cortez.
Nomad World evokes the space of an arcade, where childhood play encounters global capitalism and technology. The sculptures and installations in the show invite us to move back and forth from our childhood to our present, as they reveal a dislocated and fragmentary memory that mirrors the artist's existence shared between San Salvador and Los Angeles. An embodied simultaneity is revealed, and it is further complicated, particularly as the exhibition overflows the space of the gallery, and enters a virtual, transnational dimension.
Project 35 Volume 2
Produced by Independent Curators International (ICI), New York. In 2010 ICI launched PROJECT 35, a program of single-channel videos selected by 35 international curators who each chose one work from an artist they think is important for audiences around the world to experience today. The resulting selection has been presented simultaneously in more than 30 venues, inspiring discourse in places as varied as Berlin, Germany; Cape Town, South Africa; Lagos, Nigeria; Los Angeles, California; New Orleans, Louisiana; Skopje, Macedonia; Storrs, Connecticut; Taipei, Taiwan; and Tirana, Albania, assuring a place for video’s reach on a global scale.
Midpoint: Dance
A site-specific dance performance at the Stamp Gallery featuring the work of Meghan Abadoo, Sinclair Ogaga Emoghene, Julia Smith, Curtis Stedge
Looking Black at Me
Solo Exhibition by Larry Cook: Looking Black At Me consists of videos and photographs that address questions of Black identity, representation, and self-awareness
Magnified: A Student Curated Show
Featuring Chip Irvine, Michael Sylvan Robinson, and Al Zaruba.
Curated by Carmen Dodl, Geena Gao, and Martine Gaetan.
The works of artists Chip Irvine, Michael Sylvan Robinson, and Al Zaruba were selected for their interesting use of alternate mediums, their concentration on detail, and uniting theme. Magnified invites viewers to be transported to parallel universes through sculpture, paintings in relief, and photography.
Midpoint 2014
Featuring Rob Hackett, Aydin Hamami, Janelle Whisenant, and Steve Williams.
VOLUME
VOLUME is an interactive exhibition created by artist in residence, Maya Freelon Asante. Asante will transform the gallery space into a colorful explosion of kinetic tissue paper art. The site-specific installation invites visitors to join in on the creation of the artwork
Queer Objectivity
Featuring AK Burns, Heather Cassils, Nicolaus Chaffin, Mary Coble, Lauren Denitzio, Brendan Fernandes, Kris Grey, Gordon Hall, Katherine Hubbard, JJ McCracken, Cupid Ojala, LJ Roberts, Coral Short, Caitlin Rose Sweet, Tobaron Waxman, and Jade Yumang.
Curated by Kris Grey.
Queer Objectivity brought together sixteen emerging and established artists diverse in their identities, experiences, materials and approaches.
2012–2013
Uniforum: A Place of Nonconsequence
Featuring Kari Altmann, Jeremy Bailey, Chris Collins, Emilie Gervais, Bunny Rogers, Brenna Murphy, and Petra Cortrigh.
Curated by Adam Echavarren and Ava Lowe.
The artists in this exhibition exploit popular digital forums and user interface, such as YouTube/Vimeo, Tumblr, Twitter, and Facebook to call attention to contemporary issues related to digital identity and user anonymity.
States of Mind
The artists represented here work in a range of creative media, employing such varied forms as the written word, found historical documents, and cast aluminum. What unites the pieces on display is the artists’ shared desire to give visual form to internal psychic states so they might be contemplated and discussed rather than repressed.
Midpoint 2013
Featuring Lauren Shea Little and Lauren Frances Moore.
Selections from Combat Paper
Curated by artist Jason Hughes.
An exhibition that brought audiences closer to the veteran experience through artwork and creative writing projects produced through collaborations between veterans and civilians since 2007. Combat Paper was founded by book and paper artist Drew Matott and Iraq vet-turned-artist Drew Cameron as a non-profit organization that conducted workshops around the country teaching military vets how to make handmade paper out of their old uniforms.
Olivia Robinson: 1899–1902
This exhibition features work created by multimedia artist Olivia Robinson between the years 1899 and 1902. Robinson’s choice to present her work as if created during this time period, the height of the Technological Revolution (and pre-dating her birth), affords her the ability to reflect upon contemporary social issues (labor, wealth, public health) from a bi-historic perspective.
2011–2012
Tara Rodgers
Tara Rodgers has worked with the open-source programming language SuperCollider (www.audiosynth.com) to explore relationships among data, sounds, subjective experiences, and large-scale patterns of living systems. In representations of landscapes, weather events, and migration flows, Rodgers uses digital sounds metaphorically and poetically: to blur distinctions between what is heard as natural or artificial, and to reference the dynamism and ephemerality of environments and forms of life
Futures Transcended
Featuring Sigrid Lauren & Monica Mirabile, Meg Rorison & Jenny Gräf, Yutaka Houlette of Mixtum & Patrick Rife, and Twig Harper, and Carly Ptak of Nautical Almanac.
A gallery performance series featuring sound, dance, film & flexible synthesis.
Work Sites
Featuring Lesser Gonzalez Alvarez, Andrew Laumann, and Jack Henry.
Curated by Alex Ebstein and Seth Adelsberger of Nudashank Gallery.
Work Sites featured three artists who make abstract work that either references or directly uses construction and building materials to create larger dialog about impermanence, waste, and the haphazard discard of these materials.
Midpoint 2012
Featured Artists: Mark Earnhart, Bahar Jalehmahmoudi, Pat McGowan.
Cliff Evans: Sites and Stations
Working in the medium of video, Cliff Evans' works are a mash-up of unrelated styles that mesh effortlessly. Evans uses a rich variety of imagery sources, such as Northern Renaissance devotional paintings, and blends these into present-day single and multi-channel digital video pieces resulting in cohesive works that portray his outlook on the modern and future worlds.
Hong Seon Jang: Sugar High
In his elaborate installations, artist Hong Seon Jang takes mass produced man-made objects and transforms them into whimsical portrayals of natural phenomena. Working with ephemeral materials of consumer culture such as bottle caps, magazines, zip ties, and aluminum foil, he takes these constructed but transient things that come in and out of our lives and weighs them against that which we see as natural and perpetual.
Contemporary Art Purchase Program Selections 2010–2011
Curated by the CAPP 2010-2011 Committee.
Midpoint 2011
The Stamp Gallery presents MIDPOINT, an exhibition of works by six artists in their second year of MFA candidacy at the University of Maryland. Showcasing the work of Selin Balci, Michael Booker, Felicia Glidden, Adam Nelson, Peter Karis, and Alexander Peace, MIDPOINT offers a glimpse at the diverse works being produced in the program. We hope you will join us in supporting the pursuits of this talented group of young artists.
Postconceptualism
"As originally posited in the 1960's, Conceptual Art focused attention on the idea behind the art object and questioned the traditional role of that object as the conveyer of meaning. Subsequently, those theories cast doubt upon the necessity of materiality itself as conceptual artists "de-materialized" the art object and began to produce time-based and ephemeral artworks. Although total dematerialization never occurred, the art object became flexible - malleable - and that malleability, coupled with semiotics and process, has resulted in the postconceptual object..."
Derick Melander
Derick Melander creates large geometric configurations from carefully folded and stacked second-hand clothing. These structures take the form of wedges, columns, walls and enclosures, typically weighing between five hundred pounds and two tons. Smaller pieces directly interact with the surrounding architecture. Larger works create discrete environments.
Clarina Bezzola
Clarina Bezzola creates large geometric configurations from carefully folded and stacked second-hand clothing. These structures take the form of wedges, columns, walls and enclosures, typically weighing between five hundred pounds and two tons. Smaller pieces directly interact with the surrounding architecture. Larger works create discrete environments.
2009–2010
Video Installation Series
Featuring Stephanie Barber and Fern Silva.
This exhibition marked the first of what is to become an annual presentation of video art works and films by contemporary filmmakers. Each summer two artists will be selected to showcase a collection of current works.
Humor Yourself
Featuring John Shipman and Rachel Bone.
Curated by Danielle Brown and Eldis Sula.
Humor Yourself, an exhibition featuring the illustrations of local artists John Shipman and Rachel Bone, who combine whimsical, dreamlike images and concise, illustrative styles. Curated by University of Maryland students Danielle Brown '10 and Eldis Sula '11, Humor Yourself playfully explores the potential of illustrations to enhance our otherwise common perceptions of the world.
Midpoint 2010
Featuring Jack Henry, Joseph Hoffman, Timothy Horjus, Sarah Laing and Stewart Watson.
Disidentification
Asian-Americans often experience a sense of estrangement from or reaction against their cultural heritage, and yet, because society reads foreignness into their appearances, they are often asked to be a representative for that culture.
Toppled
Jessica Vaughn Toppled Series, mixed media on paper litho transfers 2008-2009
Mystical Arts of Tibet
An exhibition of works by Tibetan Monks to construct a symbolic mandala made of sand.
2008–2009
Crystal
Featuring Jen Kirby, Gina Denton, Ayako Kataoka, Jenny Graf Sheppard.
Curated by Melissa Moore.
Pause
Featuring Elizabeth Crisman, Laura Hughes, and Lu Zhang.
Here/There
Featuring Ding Ren.
Curated by Megan Rook-Koepsel and Jennifer Quick.
All-Terrain
Featuring Amanda Burnham, David Constable, and Susan Main.
All-Terrain featured works that drew upon their immediate surroundings as a vehicle to explore the transitional and tenuous nature of place. As a series of shifting environments, the landscapes represented both construct and are constructed by those who negotiate their terrain.
Atlasing
Featuring Alessandro Bosetti,
Atlasing was a documentary show promoting historical awareness and memory repression.
Mazen Kerbaj: Drawings from Beirut
Featuring Mazen Kerbaj.
Conecta
An exhibition and artist collaborative project featuring emerging U.S and Mexican Artists.
2007–2008
Afterimages
Featured works of two young artists originally from Maryland.
sediment
Featured works of new interpretations of technological change and growth that empower human beings to create deep meaning.
Drawing Zero 1
Featured works produced with hand tools that are subtly influenced by digital aesthetics. The artists all display a mastery of classical drawing techniques, imbued with sensibilities affected by an increasingly virtual environment.
Hyphenation
November 8 - December 20, 2007
Featuresdthree artists whose works examine the American practice of disjointed cultural identification.
Georgic Odyssey
September 20 - November 1, 2007
An exhibition of photographs by Edwin Remsberg. The purpose of the exhibit, according to Remsberg, is to offer a view of a world that exists side-by-side with most people’s lives, but which they rarely see or think about – a behind-the-scenes tour of your dinner.
Visualizing El Barrio
August 6 - September 13, 2007
A story of seven local artists’ interpretation of the streets, homes, and landscapes of Washington D.C. Latino neighborhoods.
4Frames
May 31 - July 19, 2007
Baltimore area artists whose work is influenced by cinema and filmmaking techniques.
I Walk the Line: Three Abstract Artists in the 21st-Century
March 1 - April 12, 2007
intervene/activate
January 16 - February 22, 2007
Selected works by Washington Sculptors Group.
Selections: Works by University of Maryland Students
November 14 - December 14, 2006
Emory Kristof: Around the World In 800,000 Chromes
September 21 - November 2, 2006
Featuring Emory Kristof.
Fly Over States Perspectives
August 10 - September 14, 2006
Featuring Lauren Adams, Zoë Charlton, and Steve Jones.
Curated by Brian Sykes.
This exhibition brings together artists who were originally from non-urban regions of the United States to see how their work is influenced by their origins.
Midpoint 2006
March 30 - April 20, 2006
Featuring Peter Gordon, Benjamin Lock, Brian Sykes, and Adam White.
ReDiscover, ReThink, ReDesign Landscape Architecture: A National Cross-Section of Landscape Architecture
March 7 - 26, 2006
Appropriately: Five Artists Exploring Humor
January 12 - February 27, 2006
Featuring the work of A. Clark Bedford, Jonathan Bucci, Mike Geno, Barry Scott, and R.L. Tillman.
Boundaries: Contemporary Landscape
November 10 - December 22, 2005
Featuring the work of Karey Kessler, Isabel Manalo, Jiha Moon, and Christine B. Tillman.
Every day
August 10 - September 21, 2005
Featuring Barbara Bergstrom, Tracy Templeton, Addison Will, and Andy Moon Wilson.
Area
May 25 - July 14, 2005
Featuring Hedwige Jacobs, Kevin Kepple, and Katie Krebs.
Unjuried
April 26 - May 12, 2005
Work by University of Maryland Students.
Bodies: Prints by Matthew Clay-Robison
March 31 - April 22, 2005
Exhibition Continues Printmaking's Tradition of Social and Political Commentary.
Show and/or Tell
February 10 - March 18, 2005
University of Maryland's Union Gallery Showcases MFA Students and Alumni.
Perception and Illusion: The Physics of Light and Optics
December 8, 2004 - February 4, 2005
UM Gallery Showcases How We See (or Think We See) With Physics Demonstrations.
The Sensual Beauty of Silk Art
October - November, 2005
Work by twelve international and domestic silk artists associated with Silk Painters International (SPIN).