Above Image: Erin Fei, "Imitation is the Sincerest Form of Flattery," 2024.
On View Nov. 13, 2024 – Jan. 5, 2025 | Gutter Box
Gutter Box Vol. 5 No. 5 opens November 13 featuring North Carolina artist Erin Fei's new work, "Yellow Mug". Erin Fei's artistic practice explores the complexities of her identity as an Asian American woman and the fetishized gaze. Her paintings cross the boundaries between desire and repulsion, using the monstrous and grotesque to challenge viewers to confront their complicity in systems of oppression and exploitation. Through images of meat, flesh, and dining scenes she dives into the discomforting reality of being seen, undressed, and devoured.
Fei received her BA in studio art in 2020 from the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia and her MFA in Studio Art in 2024 from the University of North Carolina Greensboro. Fei is the awardee of the prestigious Rosalie Chauncy scholarship for the study of painting in France as well as multiple talent awards. Currently, she resides in Chapel Hill, North Carolina and is a part-time faculty member at the University of North Carolina Greensboro.
ABOUT GUTTER BOX
NCMA Winston-Salem is proud to host Gutter Box at the Main Gallery entrance. Gutter Box is a sculptural object and contemporary art gallery conceived and built by artist Louis Watts and made from a retrofitted newspaper distribution box donated by Indy Week. It is a blank space, a void paused in the center of daily activity. It is a chamber of potential between the space, artists, and audience. It once was used to disseminate information via newspaper but has been repurposed as an unexpected white cube gallery space.
Originally the box lived outside of Lump, an artist-run gallery in Raleigh, NC. The project now lives in front of NCMA Winston-Salem. Gutter Box offers artists of all disciplines, interests, and locations an opportunity to bend their ideas into this funky little white box. It also provides the passer-by with a brief and surprising encounter with a contemporary gallery space.
Learn more about the project at https://www.gutterboxgallery.com/