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!
JAKE FOSTER/INSTALLATION, NEW MEDIA
Empty 229, digital screen capture, 1366 × 768 px, 2019
Interests: Porn studies, queer theory, archives, queer phenomenology, webcam modeling, and desire
OLLY GREER/SCULPTURE
Oath and Pledge, 475 pairs of donated underwear, wheat paste, and 150 taper candles
Interests: Fat resistance, tarot, local floral and food systems, trans storytelling, and dyke history
KATHERINE HAIR/PAINTING
Crossing, acrylic on canvas, 48" × 60", 2018
Interests: Painting, sculpture, nature, animal behavior, biological symbiosis, and dogs
MAX HELLER/PHOTOGRAPHY
ELISABETH HORAN/SCULPTURE
Jade Mountain, pulped sheets, pigment, okra, and borax, 6' × 4' × 3', 2018
Interests: Dreaming, cycles, paper, process, alchemy, found objects, boundaries, memory, and environment
CONOR MURPHY/NEW MEDIA
Drift Major, video still, single-channel video, 2020
Interests: Painting, sculpture, performance, technology, systems, humor, pop culture, and the Anthropocene
SALEM TURCHAN/SCULPTURE
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
SYDNEY VIZE/SCULPTURE
Untitled, silicone and glass beads, 6" x 6" x 4", 2019
Interests: Body presentation, genetics, personas, secrecy, disease, and beauty
NATHAN GRIMES/PAINTING
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
ABIGAIL HOLCOMBE/PAINTING
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
PAUL KENNETH/PAINTING
Something Wicked This Way Comes, raw canvas, denim, and peeled acrylic on stretched denim, 2019
Interests: A horse named Memory Lane, Mom's overgrown garden, and midnight in the bubble gum graveyard
TAMAR SEGEV/PAINTING
Limanowskiego 48, Bałuty, Łódź, Poland, June 2, 2019, charcoal, graphite, pastel, and oil on canvas, 68" x 54", 2020
Interests: Painting, printmaking, memory transmission, memory as practice, process, and materiality
STEPHEN SIGNA-AVILES/SCULPTURE
Install view, mixed-media sculptures, November 2019
Interests: Bricolage, cultural hybridity, memory, necessity, ego, desire, transit, borders, sports culture, and racial capital
KENDRA WARD/PHOTOGRAPHY
Strap, digital photograph, 2019
Interests: Photography, hysteria, mental health, femininity, isolation, and gender performance