AN ONLINE ART PLATFORM AND EXHIBITION SPACE
RUN BY THE STUDIO ART MFA CANDIDATES
AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN
CURRENT GRADS
The current Studio Art MFA Candidates at the School of
Art + Design at UIUC
EMMALY CRIMMEL
Crazy to See: Who Wouldn't Hurt a Butterfly, plastic, 3D printed material, cookie dough, lithographic prints, photographs, colored pencil, paint, wood, hot glue, invisible green material, March 2020
Interests: The real vs. reality, screens, hauntology, transparency, social media, identity, and visual experience IRL!
KATHERINE HAIR
Crossing, acrylic on canvas, 48" × 60", 2018
Interests: Painting, sculpture, nature, animal behavior, biological symbiosis, and dogs
SYDNEY VIZE
pantomiming gynecological information to a pharmacist on vacation, silicone and clay, 2021
Interests: Body presentation, affect theory, secrecy, mysterious phrasing, eventfulness
KENDRA WARD
Strap, digital photograph, 2019
Interests: Photography, hysteria, mental health, femininity, isolation, and gender performance
LU BEYER
I Don't Know That It Tasted Good, laserjet photos on rice paper, 2020
Interests: Sense of place, concept of homeland, visibility, and memory
TRAVIS KELLER
Electric, oil on linen, 88.5” x 62”, 2020
Interests: Painting, Dystopian Futurism, cinema, Expressionism, and prop-making
NATHAN GRIMES
Agnostic Icon: Conflicting Realities Challenge Object Permanence, acrylic, latex, and aerosol on canvas, 19" × 12", 2019
Interests: Visual art, sound, immersive environment, perception, translation, and interaction
SALEM TURCHAN
She Will Have Done Something Interesting, installation, condom, Magic 8-Ball juice, 2020
Interests: Queer theory, sculpture, painting, absurdism, internet culture, institutional critique, text and symbols, trauma, and storytelling
ABIGAIL HOLCOMBE
The Skin of the Object, partial image of installation, bedside table, house paint, bucket, duct tape, polyester fiberfill, 2018
Interests: Painting, sculpture, the object, the everyday, the surface, maximalism, textiles, pattern, and decoration
KOFI BAZZELL-SMITH
Manga Page Sample, ink on paper with digitally added tones, 440 mm X 310 mm, 2021
Interests: Manga, storytelling, Afrofuturism, Japanese cinema, Japanese history, Ukiyo-e, Toba-e, Black independent comics, boxing, martial arts, foreign language, cultural exchange
BILLY HARRIS
oil slicks & yellow bile, digital composite, 9000 x 9000 px, 2021
Interests: Grief, miscommunication, semiotics, automated mourning, and the monetization of death
KSTJVJY SYLVOP
Round table, 5-channel video installation with sound, 2021
