Subterranean Gallery, 2010-2016
Underground apartment gallery.
Kansas City, MO
"[Subterranean's programming] is reflective of Rexroth's desire to create a place where an institutional identity will not subsume those of the individuals participating or affiliating with it. If the home is the site where social mores are ritualized and inscribed as part of one's identity, it is also the place where one can reject socially prescribed behaviors or mandates. Subterranean takes advantage of this not-quite seamless collision; visitors are invited to behave as if they are operating in both a public sphere as viewers and a private domain as houseguests. Rexroth's responsiveness to the domestic nature of her venue generates participatory action and conversations from its audience while conditioning its interactions with the work and each other. She frames the objects and activities on view at Subterranean in such a way not only to stimulate discussion around artistic practice, but also to use her home as a site of resistance to institutional authority."
-Patricia Maloney of Art Practical