Saturday, Jul 6, 2024
(59) Artist Talks
About
We are pleased to welcome our session 59 Fellows to the Lighthouse Works on Fishers Island.
This esteemed group of fellows, selected from an application pool of over 850 applicants, represents a diverse array of practicing artists and writers. Our newest fellowship cohort will be in residence with Lighthouse Works from July 2 to August 13, 2024. During this time, their studios at the Annex are open by appointment through our Community Coordinator, Claudia DeSimone, at [email protected].
Join us Saturday, May 11, at 10 a.m. at Lighthouse Works to meet our newest cohort and hear about their work.
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(b. 1997, San Francisco, California) makes paintings and ceramic sculptures that explore femininity, symbolism, and art historical references.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
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
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
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.
Website
https://www.sofiatheodorepierce.comBio
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).
