The University of Michigan Duderstadt Center Gallery presents “You Next”, a duo exhibition by Thede Ambrose and Kate Donoghue, curated by Nathan Byrne.

Opening: Friday, May 29th 6-9pm
Closing: Sunday, June 28th 2-5pm

Artifacts, Illusion, and the Speculative mediate the exchange between Thede Ambrose and Kate Donoghue’s practices.

Referencing both personal and found documentary and advertisement imagery, Donoghue investigates the vacuous and hauntingly banal underbelly of commercial aspirations, constructing paintings that collapse expectations of consumerism into innate and corrupted desires.

Ambrose navigates mediated violence, spirituality, and the abject, manifesting in perverse articulations of belief and reality. Imagistic sculpture and installation are generated through an expansive material interest, and an extensive archive of found imagery.

“You Next” presents the collisions of these practices. Cautionary tales, dreams, and fantasies of objectification come to a head in this collaboration between the two artists.

Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Friday, Noon-6pm and Sunday Noon-6 pm