Graduate Student Winter Residency 

UNCG MFA in Art First and Second-Year Cohorts

December 4, 2023 - January 5, 2024

Erin Fei

My work deals with the absurdity of human existence. I use surreal figures and amorphous forms to tell stories, evoke emotions, and spark conversations around the vibrant intersectionality of identity and womanhood. Everything I make is in service to challenge assumptions about the self and the body.

Karringtin Gardner

I am Karrington Gardner a 24-year-old artist from Columbia, South Carolina. My current work focuses on the manipulation and fracturing of mundane spaces and how we inhabit spaces to be seen or understood, especially for people of color. This idea is shown through my oil paintings and collages.

Jason Lord

I create interfaces between multiple, sometimes disparate, concepts using an interdisciplinary approach:  a sound collage that explores geography, language, and simultaneity; a sculptural installation that introduces a new iconography resulting from an investigation into religion, aesthetic walking, and found objects; or a room transformed into a learning space in which people can explore questions about the relationships between the subconscious mind, mapping, and music.

Sam Machia Keshet

Sam Machia Keshet is a second year MFA candidate, whose current work is focused on relationships and collaboration. They are dreaming of queer futures, trying to find ways for people to move forward together.

Daniel Ramirez-Lamos

I’m Daniel Ramirez-Lamos, A Graduate Student studying Art at UNCG. My current art practice has to do with intimate self-expression through the means of mixed media collage and light Auguste clowning. Through these methods I hope to fully express myself the way I believe that is most authentic and sincere. @vibe_scepter  @lil_qtpi

Nill Smith

I'm creating a hanging installation based around American consumption within late-stage capitalism. My plan is to hang neon colored plexiglass guns, ammunition, and pills from the walls and ceiling. (Fake of course, no real anything!!)

This is a conversation on excess, American capitalism, and the overabundance of consumption that takes place within our culture. Within the American lexicon, more is always better and less is seen as a sign of weakness and failure. We live in a state of heighten fear constantly. Why do we need to pay for life saving medicine?  Why are people drawn to collecting guns? Why do American's need more? And what happens when we say enough?