Saturday, Aug 10, 2024
(59) Open Studios & Readings
About
Please join us on Saturday, August 10, as our Session 59 Fellows—Annie Duncan, Paloma Izquierdo, Isabel Neal, Jean Shon, and Sofia Theodore-Pierce—open their studios and share the work they've made during their six-week residency with the Lighthouse Works on Fishers Island, NY.
Our studios at 3 Hound Lane, Fishers Island, NY, will be open from 5 to 7pm, with a reading scheduled for 6pm.
While you explore our Fellow's studios and hear from them about how the island has inspired their practice, we'll be serving wood-fired pizza and beer as we celebrate the power of artists and writers to inspire, provoke, and bring us together.
All are welcome!
Artists
Bio
Annie Duncan (b. 1997, San Francisco, California) makes paintings and ceramic sculptures that explore femininity, symbolism, and art historical references. Leaning into her affinity for collecting, sorting, and obsessing over objects, her work finds humor, heartbreak, joy, and meaning in the jumbled world we inhabit. She received a BA from Vassar College in 2019 and an MFA from California College of the Arts in 2023. Annie was a featured artist with Plunge Towels. She has shown her work in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Miami, and London.
Website
https://www.anniegduncan.com/Bio
Isabel Neal is a poet and teacher from New England. Her writing appears in Tupelo Quarterly, Poets.org, the Kenyon Review, Guesthouse, and elsewhere. Neal attended the Haystack Open Studio residency in 2018, was awarded a Rackham International Institute Fellowship in 2019, and received an M.F.A. in Poetry from the University of Michigan in 2021. She lives in Maine, where she teaches both high school and undergraduate writers. She is at work on her first collection.
Bio
Paloma Izquierdo (b. Havana, Cuba) mirrors and subverts infrastructures. She holds a BFA from Cooper Union and an MFA in Sculpture from Yale. She has participated in the Pioneer Works Tech Residency, SOMA, Oolite Arts, and Ox-Bow School of Arts and will be a resident at Triangle Arts and Lighthouse Works. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at HESSE FLATOW, Swivel Gallery, Helena Anrather, Art Lot, Real Art Ways, Black Ball Projects, Smithsonian S. Dillon Ripley Center, among others.
Website
https://palomita.studio/Bio
Jean Shon is a visual artist and educator working in installation, photography, text, and mixed media. Her work explores memory, identity, loss, melancholia, and recovery in the context of family history and surrounding community. She earned her Master of Fine Arts from the University of California-Irvine and a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Recent solo exhibitions include Sawyer Yards (2023) and Box 13 (2023) in Houston, TX. She has been awarded residencies at the James Castle House (2023), Galveston Artist Residency (2021-2022), and Prairie Ronde (2021).
Website
https://www.jeanshon.com/Bio
Sofia Theodore-Pierce is a teaching artist and filmmaker. Her poetic nonfiction films balance choreographed engagement with collected ephemera and unrehearsed home movie aesthetics to explore the spaces, bodies, and social structures we inhabit. Her recent series of work is informed by her lived experience with epilepsy, utilizing experimental sound design and editing to evoke bodily rhythms and desires.
Sofia's work has been exhibited at festivals and venues such as Irish Film Institute, Edinburgh International Film Festival, CROSSROADS San Francisco, Athens Film & Video Festival, Prismatic Ground, Winnipeg Underground Film Festival, 25 FPS and FRACTO Berlin. She holds a BA from Bard College and an MFA in Cinematic Arts from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. Sofia is currently an Assistant Professor in the Cinema Department at Binghamton University. She lives in Ithaca, NY.
