2016-17 CAPP Acquisitions
Description
Featured Artists: Margaret Boozer, Zoë Charlton, Martine Gutierrez, Kakyoung Lee, Nate Lewis, Sophia Narrett, Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Paul Rucker, and K. Yoland.
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.
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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.
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Collection Items
Difficult Ordinary Happiness (with thanks to Adrienne Rich)
In Difficult Ordinary Happiness (with thanks to Adrienne Rich), Margaret Boozer uses her expertise in ceramics to create an abstract image out of locally-sourced earth and minerals in what she calls a Rammed-Earth Painting. Boozer makes the…
Those Girls #1
Part of the "Those Girls" Series
Zoë Charlton builds dense sticker collages over figures to reveal the complicated facets of the historical positioning of people’s identity markers as they relate to power, privilege, and desire. The “Those Girls”…
Zoë Charlton builds dense sticker collages over figures to reveal the complicated facets of the historical positioning of people’s identity markers as they relate to power, privilege, and desire. The “Those Girls”…
Those Girls #4
Part of the "Those Girls" Series
Zoë Charlton builds dense sticker collages over figures to reveal the complicated facets of the historical positioning of people’s identity markers as they relate to power, privilege, and desire. The “Those Girls”…
Zoë Charlton builds dense sticker collages over figures to reveal the complicated facets of the historical positioning of people’s identity markers as they relate to power, privilege, and desire. The “Those Girls”…
Line Up 1
Part of the "Line Up" Series
Line Up 1 and Line Up 4 are two photographs from Martine Gutierrez’s “Line Up” series. The series comprises scenes meticulously staged and constructed by Gutierrez to deceive her audience. Gutierrez appears in these…
Line Up 1 and Line Up 4 are two photographs from Martine Gutierrez’s “Line Up” series. The series comprises scenes meticulously staged and constructed by Gutierrez to deceive her audience. Gutierrez appears in these…
Line Up 4
Part of the "Line Up" Series
Line Up 1 and Line Up 4 are two photographs from Martine Gutierrez’s “Line Up” series. The series comprises scenes meticulously staged and constructed by Gutierrez to deceive her audience. Gutierrez appears in these…
Line Up 1 and Line Up 4 are two photographs from Martine Gutierrez’s “Line Up” series. The series comprises scenes meticulously staged and constructed by Gutierrez to deceive her audience. Gutierrez appears in these…
Dance, dance, dance
Dance, Dance, Dance is a video accompanied by a set of prints that represent stages in the work’s making. The work provides a crucial insight into the importance of self-love and self-care. Both the process and the cathartic result of this work…
Thrice
Part of the "Tensions and Tapestries" Series
Nate Lewis, a registered critical care nurse, prints his own photographic portraits on heavyweight paper and then uses self-invented tools resembling surgical instruments to make controlled tears in…
Nate Lewis, a registered critical care nurse, prints his own photographic portraits on heavyweight paper and then uses self-invented tools resembling surgical instruments to make controlled tears in…
Clenched
Part of the “Tensions and Tapestries” series
Nate Lewis is a registered critical care nurse. He makes photographic portraits, prints them on heavyweight paper, and then uses self-invented tools resembling surgical instruments to make controlled…
Nate Lewis is a registered critical care nurse. He makes photographic portraits, prints them on heavyweight paper, and then uses self-invented tools resembling surgical instruments to make controlled…
So Many Hopes
Sophia Narrett uses her chosen medium of embroidery to create sculptural works with broad, open narratives for her viewers to explore. Applying her background in painting, Narrett treats the embroidery thread like brushstrokes of paint, building…
November 5, 1893 – Savannah, Georgia
Part of the “Soundless” series
"NOVEMBER 5, 1893 - SAVANNAH, GEORGIA
Love Sermon: On November 5, 1893, a prominent Baptist preacher gave a sermon condemning lynching, rape, and mob violence against African Americans in the South. In his sermon,…
"NOVEMBER 5, 1893 - SAVANNAH, GEORGIA
Love Sermon: On November 5, 1893, a prominent Baptist preacher gave a sermon condemning lynching, rape, and mob violence against African Americans in the South. In his sermon,…