Artist/Curator/Publisher Scott Hug is proud to lead you into the woods for another exciting adventure with K48, the magazine he has organized and published since 2000. For this outing, Troop K48, consisting of artists who have been affiliated with K48 throughout the years, will take you on an artistic hike through the breathtaking scenery and boundless beauty of the natural world.

The exhibition plans to explore both the stereotypes and realities of our relationship to the environment, how nature is sometimes used as a marketing campaign and how we have cultured nature to suit our own needs. In the installation, nature and the art it has inspired has been visually fenced in, either to keep you out or to keep it in. The 48+ contributors in Kamp 48 have been working from their own idea of nature to create a campsite where mass media’s manipulation of nature is fully explored. Featured works take cues from horror movies, abduction stories, troupe leaders gone wild, alien abductions and the army-like transformation of boys to men under the stern direction of the Boy Scouts of America.

Unique pieces have been created especially for the exhibition which was first exhibited in The Zine Unbound: Kults, Werewolves, and Sarcastic Hippies at The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, in San Francisco, in the fall of 2005. Among many contributions editor Hug has teamed up with assume vivid astro focus to create assume vivid astro turf, Dominic McGill has customized the tent with stories from mass media, Theo A. Rosenblum has made a campfire complete with smores and a roasting pig and Justin Samson has created an alien, ready to take you away… be prepared!

Troop 48: Suzanne Ackerman, Carl D’Alvia, assume vivid astro focus, Dan Attoe, Ben Beaudoin, Hisham Bharoocha, Olaf Breuning, Jared Buckhiester, Chris Caccamise, Peter Coffin, Ryan Compton, Ann Craven, Joanna Ebenstein, Franklin Evans, Brendan Fowler, J. Foxx/Edgar Um Bucholtz, Max Goldfarb, Andrew Guenther, John Hogan, Rachel Howe, Matthew Day Jackson, Terence Koh, Oliver Lutz, LoVid, Noah Lyon, Michael Magnan, Ashley Macomber, Dominic McGill, Deborah Mesa-Pelly, Billy Miller, Mirror Mirror, Kenneth Mroczek, Mary J. Nicholson, Shay Nowick, PFFR, Phiiliip, Jon Rappleye, Theo A. Rosenblum, Justin Samson, Bill Saylor, Adam Shecter, Christian Siekmeier, A. L. Steiner, Tracy Stewart, Jim Tozzi, Scott Treleaven, Shoplifter, Michael Wetzel, Grant Worth, Jeremy Yoder Kubmaster: Scott Hug