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!

https://therealemmaly.club/

KATHERINE HAIR

Crossing, acrylic on canvas, 48" × 60", 2018

Interests: Painting, sculpture, nature, animal behavior, biological symbiosis, and dogs

https://www.katherinehair.com/

SYDNEY VIZE

pantomiming gynecological information to a pharmacist on vacation, silicone and clay, 2021

Interests: Body presentation, affect theory, secrecy, mysterious phrasing, eventfulness

https://www.sydneyvize.com/

KENDRA WARD

Strap, digital photograph, 2019

Interests: Photography, hysteria, mental health, femininity, isolation, and gender performance

https://www.kendraannward.com/

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

https://traviskellerart.com/

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

http://nathangrimesfineart.com/

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

https://salemturchan.wixsite.com/mysite

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

https://abigailart.org/

KOFI BAZZELL-SMITH

Rabbit and Toad Page 1, ink on paper with digitally added tones, 2021

Interests: Manga, storytelling, Afrofuturism, Japanese cinema, Japanese history, Ukiyo-e, Toba-e, Black independent comics, boxing, martial arts, foreign language, cultural exchange

https://www.kofimanga.com