The Perfect Casserole
Group Exhibition
May 30 - June 3, 2023
Reception: Friday, June 2nd | 6-8 PM*
Performance 7:30p by Daniel Ramirez-Lamos
From the kitchen of: UNCG's 2024 MFA Cohort
PREP TIME: one semester
COOK TIME: infinite
INGREDIENTS
>Asian-American identity darkly humorous paintings → Erin Fei
Karrington Gardner ←interested in Black portraiture? representing Black masculinity
Jason Lord ← sign guy how to be human?
trash person how do we move together? → Sam Machia Keshet
Daniel Ramirez-Lamos ←Mexican, Columbian, and Indigenous craft influence!
UNCG School of Art Faculty (Special thanks to: Tori Foster, Dan Hale, Chris Cassidy, Leah Sobsey, Nicole Scalissi ← never leaving uncg (or at least our hearts), Jen Meanley, and Caitlyn Schrader)
PREPARATION
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Preheat oven to the concept of identity and portraiture 350°.
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Add ingredients to a bottomless casserole dish.
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Toss with oil and pepper ��̷��̷��̷��̷��̷ ̷��̷��̷��̷��̷��̷��̷ █████ s̶t̶a̶r̶ ̶a̶n̶i̶s̶e̶ spice of choice.
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Mix things up with conversation and reading critique, and critical readings.
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��̷��̷��̷��̷ Chop Pulverize Crumble equal parts metaphysical, practical, visual, and relational perspectives, and sprinkle generously on top.
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Throw half of the mixture out, and start again.
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Add confusion, to taste.
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Top with cocktail shrimp.
Serve warm. frozen. partially thawed.
More About The Artists
Erin Fei was born in Hamilton New Zealand to a Chinese mother and an American father and explores Asian American heritage and biracial identity through sculpture and painting. Using found objects recalling her heritage, she recontextualizes them into uncanny corporeal forms which challenge the objectification of Asian women. Her experiences traveling to her maternal homeland, and visiting wet markets in Asia (contrasting with her experience as an Asian woman in America) inspires her practice in thinking about meat/flesh/hawking/buy/sell.
She grew up on the east coast of the United States and received her BA in studio art in 2020 from the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg Virginia. Erin is the awardee of the prestigious Rosalie Chauncy scholarship for the study of painting in France as well as multiple talent awards. In 2019 she attended a Summer residency at Paris College of Art for figure painting/drawing. Erin has recently been awarded a grant from her graduate program (CVPA) for a project to help advance issues of equity, diversity, inclusion, and access for Asian American communities. She was part of an artist collective in Richmond, Virginia as well as a studio assistant to painter Chris Musina. She has received multiple talent awards for her paintings. Currently she lives and works in Greensboro North Carolina where she is pursuing her MFA in studio art at the University of North Carolina–Greensboro
Karrington Gardner is a 23-year-old native of Columbia, South Carolina. He is a proud Alumni of the Illustrious North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University and is a current student at the University of North Carolina Greensboro receiving his MFA in Studio Art.
Learn more about Karrington at www.803artistry.com or follow @803_artistry
Jason Lord is an nterdisciplinary artist and errant clerical worker
Learn more at www.taftterrace.org
Sam Machia Keshet is an interdisciplinary artist based in Greensboro, NC. They hold a BFA in Painting and began pursuing an MFA in Studio Art from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 2022 after a few years of working as a ceramics assistant, graphic designer, and art educator. Their work is a process of constructing queer “otherness” through abstraction, and the curation of an inventory of acts of liberation, amassed as a collection of possibilities and giving body to the expansive nature of existence. They are always asking questions of identity, alienation, and community - wondering how to move together, and build with.
Daniel Ramirez-Lamos is a Mixed Media Artist based in the South. He earned his Bachelors at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke in Studio Art: Focus in Ceramics with a Secondary in Painting, and is currently enrolled in the Graduate program of The University of North Carolina at Greensboro in an interdisciplinary program.
Daniel was brought up in a Latin household to first generation Americans; a Mexican Father and a Colombian Mother, with four other siblings (he is currently the only artist).
Learn more at https://lilqtpi.wixsite.com/main or follow @lil_qtpi
