Exhibition Feature
August 28th, 2026 —
The exhibition Amalgamation sits within the human and technology entanglement—the strange, accelerating space where the line between the organic and the engineered is no longer legible. We don’t just build tools. We grow with them, and they grow with us. The work in this exhibition imagines this exchange as a living thing: weird hybrids, fantastical growth, machine-human forms that are neither warning nor prophecy but something stranger, a merging that is neither one thing nor the other.
Exhibition Feature
July 10th, 2026 —
Darkness probes the moist inner workings of the places we are often most unwilling to go: our bodies, our racial identities, and even the ground under our feet. The works in this exhibition challenge the sterility, generational shame, and white supremacy of puritanical American culture while also celebrating mystery, fecundity, imperfection, and uncertainty.
News
May 6th, 2026 —
Even though 78th Street Studios will be mostly quiet and empty on Wednesday May 13, don’t be afraid to go down to the Ramp level and walk allllllllll the way to the back, to Understory Gallery where you’ll find some activity: the preview opening of a show titled Fuzzy Fields. It presents new work by two artists, Susan Snipes and Jamie Zimcheck.
Exhibition Feature
April 29th, 2026 —
UNDERSTORY, an artist-run gallery championing new and emerging voices, is dedicated to driving discourse with Fuzzy Fields, opening May 13. In this exhibition, artists Susan Snipes and Jamie Zimchek explore the fuzzy fields that form around unresolved sites and across indeterminate time.
Review
April 24th, 2026 —
This year, Mary Urbas, long-time curator of From Woman, returned to Understory to mount part of her large-scale, annual exhibition, now in its 19th iteration.
Review
February 17th, 2026 —
Power Exchange Rate (PER) examines how one’s bodily intimacies and understanding are shaped, regulated, and contested within the structures of capital and power. Review by Lyz Bly, Phd.
Curatorial Statement
October 15th, 2025 —
Sport is far more than a game. Group exhibition And The Crowd Goes Wild positions the athletic arena as a microcosm of society—a space where power, performance, and discipline collide, and dominant values are both reinforced and contested.
Curatorial Statement
June 1st, 2025 —
In an age simultaneously augmented and fragmented by pings and likes, breaking news and bank alerts, where do we place our focus? Distractions surround us, both real and virtual. Amidst this jockeying for our attention, what takes precedence?
Interview
March 18th, 2025 —
Roger Miller from Tues@7 live interviews Mary Urbas, curator of From Woman, at UNDERSTORY.
Review
March 7th, 2025 —
Review by Lyz Bly, PhD, in CAN Journal:
"Last year, Mary Urbas left her longtime post as Director of the gallery at Lakeland Community College...