2016–2017 CAPP Selections
2016-2017 CAPP Committee Curatorial statement:
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 come from our committee’s understanding that beauty can be a point of access for people, and that strength can be intertwined with vulnerability. (read more...)
MARGARET BOOZER
Difficult Ordinary Happiness (with thanks to Adrienne Rich), 2017
Stancill (MD) lavender and gray clays, sand, steel, and Warrenton, VA basalt dust
ZOË CHARLTON
Those Girls #1, 2013
Part of the “Those Girls” series
Collage on paper
ZOË CHARLTON
Those Girls #4, 2013
Part of the “Those Girls” series
Collage on paper
MARTINE GUTIERREZ
Line Up 1, 2014
Part of the “Line Up” series
Archival inkjet print
MARTINE GUTIERREZ
Line Up 4, 2014
Part of the “Line Up” series
Archival inkjet print
KAKYOUNG LEE
Dance, Dance, Dance, 2011
Suite of 10 drypoints and
HD single channel video with sound, RT 2:20
NATE LEWIS
Thrice, 2017
Part of the “Tensions and Tapestries” series
Hand-sculpted photo paper prints
NATE LEWIS
Clenched, 2017
Part of the “Tensions and Tapestries” series
Hand-sculpted photo paper prints
SOPHIA NARRETT
So Many Hopes, 2016-17
Embroidery thread, aluminum, and fabric
KAMEELAH JANAN RASHEED
Lower the Pitch of Your Suffering, 2016
Part of the “How to Suffer Politely (and Other Etiquette)” series
Archival inkjet print
KAMEELAH JANAN RASHEED
Take It Like a Man, But Don't Take it Up With "The Man", 2016
Part of the “How to Suffer Politely (and Other Etiquette)” series
Archival inkjet prints
PAUL RUCKER
November 5, 1893 – Savannah, Georgia, 2015
Part of the “Soundless” series
Oak
K. YOLAND
Invisible Angels, 2009
Part of the “Invisible Angels” series
C-prints, shot with Fuji 5 x 4.5 on Kodak 120 Vivid Color Film
K. YOLAND
Invisible Angels, 2009
Part of the “Invisible Angels” series
C-prints, shot with Fuji 5 x 4.5 on Kodak 120 Vivid Color Film