Arts + Literature Laboratory presents (Sub)urbia by 2021 ALL Prize recipient Conley Clark. The ALL Prize is awarded each year to outstanding graduating MFA students from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The exhibition will be on view at ALL from March 11 to May 1, 2021. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the galleries will be open limited hours from 12-5pm Thursday through Saturday or by appointment. Visitors inside the building will be required to wear masks and practice social distancing, and the number of visitors will be limited according to current public health guidelines. Exhibition admission is free.
Clark and fellow ALL Prize recipient Rita Mawuena Benissan will participate in a livestream, interactive artist talk and Q&A on Thursday, April 1, 2021 at 5pm. You are invited to join the conversation on Facebook or YouTube.
Artist Statement
(Sub)urbia is a multimedia, installation-based exhibition that draws upon the artist’s personal experiences to question the unspoken suppositions and expectations of gender-conformity within a society. Considering its underlying tensions and fraught history, Clark combines plaster casts, AstroTurf, video, sound, and various found objects to embellish the landscape of the suburbs with queerly-coded visuals. In this way, prevalent imaginaries of stereotypical suburban life are disrupted by an uncanny representation of the same thing.
