College of Visual and Performing Arts

Crossing the Coulee
2025-11-11 09:00 - 16:00, 2025-11-12 09:00 - 16:00, 2025-11-13 09:00 - 16:00, 2025-11-14 09:00 - 16:00, 2025-11-17 09:00 - 16:00, 2025-11-18 09:00 - 16:00, 2025-11-19 09:00 - 16:00, 2025-11-20 09:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) and 11 more dates | UNCG Gatewood Studio Arts Building, 527 Highland Ave, Greensboro, NC, United States
Kate Gordon’s studio practice focuses on painting in the expanded field, sourcing inspiration from pop-up books, dioramas, and collage. The dream imagery that Gordon mines aims to capture the strangeness of the waking world, which is often not as logical as it might at first appear. Gordon has shown her paintings, collages, and video works nationally; exhibitions include a site-specific installation “Alligator Naps” at the Hilliard Art Museum, curation into the Weatherspoon Art Museum’s “Art on Paper” exhibition, and an invitation to create a public video installation at Block 2, a visual platform for new media artists in Raleigh, NC. Most recent professional accomplishments include participation in Kolaj Institute’s Artist Residency in Scotland, curation into “Is This Too Much?”, a maximalist exhibition at Le Mieux Galleries, and inclusion in the “Louisiana Contemporary” exhibition at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art. Gordon currently holds the position of Associate Professor of Figure Drawing & Foundations at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. She earned an M.F.A. from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and a B.F.A. from Pratt Institute.

Exhibition runs October 16 – December 5, 2025 Monday – Friday, 8am – 4pmArtist Talk and Reception October 16, 4:30pm

MFA Thesis art exhibition: victoria mercado-lues
2026-04-21 12:00 - 2026-04-25 17:00 | Greensboro Project Space, 111 E February 1 Pl, Greensboro, NC 27406, USA
Garden of Corporeal Fantasy

MFA Thesis Exhibition

by Victoria Mercado-Lues

Exhibition: April 21 – 25, 2026

Reception: Friday, April 24th, 6-8p

Brightly saturated and fantastical, Garden of Corporeal Fantasy explores the meeting of nature and flesh in oil paintings and ceramics. With invented creatures and visceral biological imagery, the works reframe the gaze towards the bodily through a lens of wonder — a less punitive lens than the centuries-long and still recurring traditions of bodies as commodified, objectified, or sinful.

This exhibition addresses our discomfort surrounding the body by combining it with the godly imposing presence of the landscape, like waterfalls and billowing clouds. In this combination, the work is imbued with a devotional, almost sacred quality, borrowing visuals of the holy and filling it with the biological. The sticky, hairy, fleshy becomes something worth staring at with open fascination, the same way we are in awe of exotic plants, or deep-sea creatures, illuminating the sublime inherent in the corporeal.

By zooming in on the glistening, wet thresholds, the work blurs the boundary between interior and exterior anatomy. Tendrils and drips converge to give birth to strange life forms and new worlds that explore sensuality, womanhood, and the fantastic.

Documenting a coming of age, Garden of Corporeal Fantasy acknowledges the fullness of becoming a woman: the awareness of feeling both precious and strange, once intimately known, yet foreign to yourself. In creating these fantastical ecologies, the work insists on its own terms for beauty, redefined through tender curiosity.

More About Victoria

Victoria Mercado-Lues (b. 2003) is a Mexican-American artist whose oil paintings, ceramics, and collage conjure vivid ecologies of invented creatures and fantastical flesh. Her work merges the biological with the devotional, reframing the body as a site of wonder rather than shame.

Mercado-Lues received her BFA from the University of South Florida and her MFA from the University of North Carolina Greensboro, where she was awarded a residency through GROW in partnership with Creative Greensboro. Her work has been exhibited nationally at the Carolyn M. Wilson Gallery, International Museum of Surgical Science, Proxy Design Gallery, and the Sechrest Gallery, among others.

Learn more at victoriamercadolues.wixsite.com/arts | IG: @victoriamercadolues

MFA Thesis Art exhibition: kathryn hood
2026-04-28 12:00 - 2026-05-02 17:00 | Greensboro Project Space, 111 E February 1 Pl, Greensboro, NC 27406, USA
Homebody

MFA Thesis Exhibition

by Kathryn Hood

Exhibition: April 28 – May 2, 2026

Reception: Friday, May 1st, 6-8p

Homebody is an exhibition of collages and sculptures in which Kathryn Hood carves her perceptions of tense muscles into paper and upholstery foam. She embraces the body-mind connection, an essential tool for self-understanding, as she houses ungrounded avatars within handmade paper and muscular furnishings outside of formal traditions. Hood composes the interior feelings of ideas & emotions with the exterior feeling of tension. This duality of perception reflects the disparate nature of themes explored, such as femininity, domesticity, and the performance of identity.

Homebody is the residence of textured perceptions. This space is an act of resensitization.

More About Kathryn

Kathryn Hood (b. 1996) is a collagist, sculptor, and creative doer who carves tense muscles into paper and foam then furnishes them in acts of resensitization. She investigates the thresholds of perception & of living with/as a sense of self. Hood’s 3-dimensional work evolved from a fascination with her maternal grandmother’s porcelain dinnerware. Evaluating its character and its politics, she applies its label of domesticity to bodily sensations and identity performance. Hood lives and works in North Carolina.

Learn more www.kathryn-hood.com | IG: @kathrynhoodart

Collage
2026-10-24 19:30 - 21:00 | UNCG Auditorium, 408 Tate Street, Greensboro, NC, 27412, United States
