Under Pressure

An Exhibition That Explores How Pressure Shapes, Challenges, and Inspires

Featuring Local, Undergraduate Artists from UNCG, Guilford College, and A&T University

Curated by GPS Interns: Lucy Terry, Elissa Ukhueligbe, and Rachel Witzel

Exhibition: April 29 - May 2, 2025

Reception: Friday, May 2nd, 6-8p

More About Under Pressure

How does pressure shape, challenge, or inspire you? From personal struggles to societal pressures, we seek art that explores the transformative power of adversity. How adversity—whether physical, emotional, or external—can lead to growth, innovation, and change. Under Pressure is an opportunity to reflect on the pressure points that define our lives: moments that push us beyond limits, that break us open or forge us anew.

More About The GPS Student Intern Curators

Lucy Terry

My goal as an artist is to create an escape, not just for the viewer, but for myself. The constant pressure that is on student artists makes it near impossible to relax into the escapism that art can provide. Through this exhibition, I hope that all of my Greensboro student peers can allow themselves to move freely through their own artistic expression, without the threat of a grade or evaluation looming over them. My hope is that this exhibition creates a safe space for free expression while also celebrating the unique, fresh, and unfiltered style of student artists.

Elissa Ukhueligbe

I believe people can connect to each other through a shared struggle. There are common adversities for all people, no matter their background. Art can be a way to critique systems that harm people. In addition, it can inspire empathy, action, and compassion. I hope this exhibition can allow people to feel seen through artwork. We included artists in multiple Greensboro schools; hopefully cultivating a sense of community through shared emotions.

Rachel Witzel

What I hoped to cultivate with the show Under Pressure was a body of work that reflected the universal weight we carry as students and artists. While everyone, artist or not, experiences their own unique stresses and pressures throughout their lives, it's as artists and creatives that we are able to communicate how they affect us. For me, art is its own form of communication. What began as symbolic paintings on cave walls has now become a tool for us to open channels of connection with others who might share in our experiences– or discover something new about themselves through the art we share.

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