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Each winter, The Church hosts The East End Community Residency, a cycle in our annual artists’ residency program that is specifically for artists of the South Fork. During the Community Residency, we invite selected artists of the East End to work on campus at The Church to enrich and foster artistic community and dialogue. This year, we’re thrilled to welcome A.G. Duggan, Robin du Plessis, Christina Graham, Laurie Hall, Eva Iacono, and Nathalie Shepherd to join us in residence. Stop by between 1:00 – 3:00 pm on December 14th to see and hear more about their works and process.
MEET THE ARTISTS:
A. G. Duggan
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A.G. Duggan is a visual artist, raised locally on the east end of Long Island, experiencing her first introduction to multimedia art classes at the Parrish Art Museum, later obtaining a BA in fine arts at the university level. Duggan exhibits locally in Montauk, East Hampton, and Southampton, with recent exhibitions including Art of the Book at the Southampton Arts Center and Art on Paper in New York, 2024. Duggan works in both drawing and painting, utilizing charcoal, pastel, and other mixed media to depict abstract and temporal landscapes.
Robin du Plessis
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Robin du Plessis is an artist based on the East End and New York whose work incorporates multiple formats, using scale and materials to address the human relationship to a changing environment. In addition to her studio practice, she has worked in textile development and education. du Plessis received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design.
Christina Graham
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Christina was born in New York City in 1989 and now resides on the East End. Her work explores the idea of imminence, the philosophical principle that the divine resides within the fabric of the material world. Through gestural abstractions, her paintings employ the somatic, intuitive and indexical as systems for non-linear space making. Christina holds a BFA in Painting from Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College, where she was awarded the Elaine DeKooning Memorial Scholarship and the Woodstock Byrdcliffe AIR Fellowship, as well as the Al Held Archive Fellowship. Her work has been exhibited at galleries nationally, including Ortega y Gasset, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Fjord Gallery, and the LeRoy Neiman Gallery at Columbia University. Since 2018, Christina has taught elementary school art, serving as artist-in-residence in Brooklyn and Queens public schools with Studio in a School and at Portfolio School in Manhattan. She is currently the art teacher at Ross Lower School in Bridgehampton, NY.
Laurie Hall
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Originally from Buffalo, New York, Laurie Hall attended art classes throughout childhood, later graduating from the Rhode Island School of Design, majoring in Textile Design. Following graduation, Hall moved to NYC and began a 46-year career designing fabrics, dinnerware, home goods, and fashion accessories. Currently, she resides in East Hampton, where she continues to utilize her sense of design and love of color as a full-time artist, immersing herself in various mediums and techniques.
Eva Iacono
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Eva Iacono was born and raised on Long Island and has been living on the South Fork for the last 22 years. She has an advanced degree in Education in TESOL and is certified in New York State as an ESL and Spanish instructor. She was an English language teacher for almost three decades, six years of which she taught English in Barcelona, Spain. Most recently, she taught English as a Second Language and Spanish Language Arts in the East Hampton School District. Apart from teaching languages, making art has been essential and constant for her throughout her life. Most of her pieces delve into portrait and landscape photography as well as portrait drawing using oil pastels and mixed media. Iacono has participated in many juried, open and invitational group shows throughout the East End and New York State and she had a one-woman show at the Ammerman Library of Suffolk County Community College. She has been a studio assistant, administrative assistant, grant writer, artist, and, most recently, an instructor at the VDIA for over six years.
Nathalie Shepherd
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Nathalie Shepherd studied at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island, where she received her Bachelor of Fine Arts, and then at the University of New Orleans in Louisiana, where she earned her Master of Fine Arts. She has exhibited in group exhibitions both locally and internationally, including Gallerie im Andechshof, Innsbruck, Austria. Shepherd makes drawings and colorful paintings of figures, objects, and interiors that reference distant memories of moments from everyday life. Often culled from old photos and illustrations, her subject matter is rendered with a soft focus that questions the integrity of memory and personal history.