August 31 - October 3, 2026
Reception: Friday, September 11, 5 – 7 PM
Featuring Cecilia Kim, Leslie Holt, Chris Combs, Trystan Luah, McCoy Chance, and Electra Pelias.
College Park, MD. The Stamp Gallery is pleased to present Afterhours, an exhibition featuring six artists whose works examine how obsolescence shapes individual and collective experiences. Reflecting on capitalist definitions of purpose, utility, and worth, Cecilia Kim, Leslie Holt, Chris Combs, Trystan Luah, McCoy Chance, and Electra Pelias invite viewers to reconsider how these systems of categorization have molded our relationships with objects, spaces, ourselves, and each other.
ARTIST BIOS
Cecilia Kim is a video artist who engages with themes of displacement, belonging, and labor, fusing the personal with the collective. Kim has exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington (VA), The Kreeger Museum (DC), Hamiltonian Artists (DC), Kaplan Gallery (MD), The Immigrant Artist Biennial (NY), CICA Museum (Gimpo, Korea), and Pluripotent Art Space (Seoul, Korea). Kim was an artist in residence at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Ox-Bow School of Art and Artists' Residency, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, and Kunstnarhuset Messen, among others. Kim was a recipient of the Trawick Prize, Washington Project for the Arts Wherewithal Grant, and Hamiltonian Artists Fellowship. She received her MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University and BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and is an Assistant Professor of Film at the University of Notre Dame.
Leslie Holt is a mixed-media artist whose current work explores memory and grief through combining abstract paint stains, silkscreen, and embroidery. She has exhibited widely and is represented by David Lusk Gallery in Memphis. Leslie has a BFA from Washington University in St. Louis and an MFA from Washington State University in Pullman, WA. For over 20 years, she has taught on the college level and in community settings, with a focus on teens and adults with disabilities. Leslie is also the creator of Neuro Blooms, a project that uses the power of art to promote awareness and understanding of mental health conditions. Currently living in Takoma Park, MD, Leslie is Co-director of Red Dirt Studio, a warehouse studio for independently practicing artists and creative professionals in Mt. Rainier, MD.
Chris Combs is an artist based in Washington, D.C and Mount Rainier, Maryland, whose sculptural artworks both incorporate and question technologies. Chris was the 2025 Artist in Residence at the Sanford Underground Research Facility and is a five-time recipient of the DC CAH Arts and Humanities Fellowship. He is a graduate of the Corcoran College of Art + Design and was a photo editor for National Geographic. He has shown at VisArts, McLean Project for the Arts, IA&A at Hillyer, and other DC-area institutions. His artwork Periscopes is permanently installed in Buzzard Point, D.C., and Madness Method, a collaboration with David Greenfieldboyce, was part of Georgetown GLOW. The Next Big Thing (MoCA Arlington Innovation Studio, 2024) recreated Hokusai’s Great Wave off Kanagawa with E-waste that reacted to visitors’ faces and movements. His show Supercycle (IA&A at Hillyer, 2023) invoked cycles of hype, such as “AI” and cryptocurrencies. Outsized Effects (Gradient Projects, Thomas, WV, 2023–4) included the room-sized Allegheny Data Company, examining data mining through the visual lens of coal mining. Chris is a member of Otis Street Arts Project.
Trystan Luah is a multimedia artist based in Distrito Federal, Brazil. His work revolves around self-expression and the complex feelings that arise from experiencing life as a non-binary, queer individual. Luah holds a BA in Visual Arts from Universidade de Brasília and works as a tattoo artist, printmaker, illustrator, and street artist. His works have been featured in exhibitions at the Museu Vivo da Memória Candanga, Galleria Espaço Piloto, The Tube Art Gallery, and several cultural centers, including Mercado Sul and Espaço Cultural Ubuntu.
McCoy Chance is a Baltimore-based artist, filmmaker, musician, and educator. His practice centers on hybrid analog/digital video systems, repair-based collaboration, and the afterlives of media technologies. Through obsolete display technologies, analog video feedback, custom signal chains, and live processing, Chance reactivates damaged, injured, and abandoned electronics as sites of care and audiovisual experimentation. He received his MFA in Intermedia and Digital Art from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, where he also earned dual BAs in Media and Communication Studies and Music Technology. His work has been exhibited, screened, and performed nationally and internationally, with recent presentations at BINNAR International Festival of the Arts in Portugal, Lviv Art Palace in Ukraine, The Peale Museum in Baltimore, The Crow’s Nest, Manhattan Neighborhood Network as part of The Americas Film Festival, and Linehan Concert Hall as part of UMBC’s Professional Concert Series. His films and video works have screened in Venezuela, Spain, Canada, Colombia, India, New York, Chicago, and Baltimore. He currently teaches in the Film and Moving Image Department at Stevenson University and the Visual Arts Department at UMBC.
Electra Pelias received her Master's in Fine Arts in Studio Arts at George Washington University in May 2026. Her works have been shown in multiple galleries and museums in DC, Maryland, Virginia, and New Orleans, including the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, Corcoran School of the Arts & Design, Tulane University, and Transformer Gallery. In 2026, she was voted Best Local Maker by Washington City Paper. She additionally owns and operates Electra Makes, an art and accessories brand with a comprehensive online presence and steady growth in both engagement and sales. Electra currently teaches Ceramics at Montgomery College. Today, Electra channels that same scrappy, heartfelt energy into a multidisciplinary practice that spans sculpture, painting, fiber, printmaking, and digital manipulation. She gravitates toward secondhand and “once-loved” materials, often sewing, mending, or reimagining objects that carry their own histories. Her work frequently combines tactile softness with structural rigidity, creating a physical and emotional tension that mirrors the messy process of feeling deeply.
This exhibition is supported in part by the Maryland State Arts Council (msac.org) and The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center.
ABOUT THE GALLERY
Located on the first floor of the Adele H. Stamp Student Union—Center for Campus Life at the University of Maryland, College Park, the Stamp Gallery is dedicated to exhibiting contemporary art, especially the work of emerging and mid-career artists. The Stamp Gallery supports contemporary art that is challenging, academically engaging, and attuned to broad community and social issues. Through meaningful exhibitions and programming, the Gallery offers outside-of-the-classroom experiential learning opportunities. It functions as a laboratory where emerging artists and curators experiment and work through their ideas. The Gallery’s programming aims to emphasize the importance of process to contemporary artistic practice and to provide a forum for dialogue.
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Gallery hours: Mondays–Thursdays: 10 am – 8 pm, Fridays: 10 am – 5 pm, Saturdays: 11 am – 5 pm, Sundays: Closed.
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