Saturday, Nov 30, 2024
(61) Open Studios & Readings
About
Please join us on Saturday, November 30, 2024 as our (61) Fellowship cohort opens their studios and shares the work they've made during their six-week residency with the Lighthouse Works on Fishers Island, NY. Our studios will be open from 4 to 6pm, 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
JR Roykovich (JRR) is a conceptual & research-based artist who investigates the spaces created by the intersections of Mystery, Queerness and The Sublime. Utilizing a multidisciplinary approach, JRR often works from geological sites to document how the layers of history, mythology and psychic scars residing there can phenomenologically affect our current physical, mental and emotional experiences within that place and time. These explorations then result in large installations and mappings based off of environmental recollection which then serve as a nerve center to explore, document and connect.
JRR holds a MFA in Visual Art from the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University (2014), and a BFA in Art and Visual Technology, cum laude and with departmental honors, from George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia (2011). JRR has further been an artist in residence at the Galveston Artist Residency, The Solar Studios at Rice University, The Chautauqua Institution, Alexandria, Virginia's Torpedo Factory Art Center, among others and has work in various public and private collections.
Website
https://www.jrroykovich.comBio
Rasha Abdulhadi is calling on you—yes you, even as you read this—to renew your commitment to refusing and resisting genocide everywhere you find it. May your commitment to Palestinian liberation deepen your commitment to your own. May your exhaustion deepen your resolve and make you immovable. May we all be drawn irresistibly closer to refusals that are as spectacular as the violence waged against our peoples.
Bio
Shy Watson, originally from Missouri, is a writer and poet. Her work has appeared in Southwest Review, Fence, Joyland, and elsewhere. She interviews for The Creative Independent. She earned her MFA from the University of Montana and has since received support from Monson Arts.
Website
https://www.shywatson.comBio
Cleo Reed is a sound maker, performance artist, and instrument builder based in Brooklyn, NY. Recently, they developed software instruments for Jon Batiste’s “American Symphony” at Carnegie Hall. Cleo Reed is a 2023 BRIC Artist-In-Residence, a recipient of the 2023 Jazz is NOW: Curatorial Fellowship at the National Jazz Museum in Harlem, and a 2023 OneBeat Fellow. At 19, Cleo Reed named themselves after Cleophus, their great-grandmother and a fellow Aquarius. Whether underground or academic, experimental or popular, They express musicianship guided by their radiance, femininity, and cyclical traumas. They are in the process of completing their first full-scale inter-disciplinary project in 2025.
Website
https://cleoforshort.cargo.site/Bio
Rachel Youn (b. 1994, Abington, PA) is an artist living and working in New Haven, CT. Working across sculpture and installation, Youn sources materials with a history of aspiration and failure through online secondhand shopping. Youn rescues electric massagers from suburban limbo,
fastening artificial plants to the machines to create kinetic sculptures that are clumsy, erotic, and absurd. Haunted by their immigrant father’s pursuit of the American Dream, their work identifies with the replica that earnestly desires to be real, and the failed object that simulates care and intimacy.
