The Watermill Center welcomes its newest Artists-in-Residence: local East-End visual artist Candace Hill, and Lucie Vítková, a musician and composer from the Czech Republic, based in New York.
Both artists will share their work during In Process, The Center’s open studio series, on April 24, where they will be joined by Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa, one of Watermill’s 2021 Inga Maren Otto Fellows who will be in residence later this spring.
Hill is a visual artist and educator. She has been a recipient of the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, CAPS Fellowship, NEA grants, Beards Grant for Sculpture, and has published works with Printed Matter and Heresies. Her work has been shown at the Whitney Biennial, Madre, The New Museum, The Bronx Museum, The World Trade Center, Hills & Valleys, and with the Parrish Art Museum.
Lucie Vítková is a composer, improviser and performer (accordion, voice, hichiriki, synthesizer and tap dance). During her PhD. she studied composition at Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno, she has been a visiting scholar at Universität der Künste in Berlin, Columbia University in New York and lately at the New York University. In her recent work, she is interested in the social-political aspects of music in relation to everyday life and in reusing trash to build sonic costumes. She has been nominated for the 2017 Herb Alpert Awards in Arts in the category of Music, was commissioned by the Roulette Intermedium in 2017 and has become a Roulette resident artist in 2018. She has put together two ensembles — NYC Constellation Ensemble (focused on music behavior) and the OPERA Ensemble.
Guatemalan artist Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa works in drawing, performance, sculpture, and video. Ramírez-Figueroa reframes recent and historical events, to find new ways at looking at social, political, and ecological conditions. He has participated in various solo and group exhibitions including The Sixth State, Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros, Mexico City (2018); The House of Kawinal, New Museum, New York (2018); Shit Baby and the Crumpled Giraffe, Kunsthalle Lissabon, Lisbon (2017); VIVA ARTE VIVA, 57th Biennale di Venezia, Venice (2017); Incerteza Viva, 32 Bienal de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo (2016); Burning Down the House, and 10th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju (2014). He is a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Mies Van Der Rohe prize, the Franklin Furnace award, the Akademie Schloss Solitude fellowship (selected by Dan Graham), and the DAAD Berlin Artists-in-Residence fellowship.
Learn more about the artists and their current work on Saturday, April 24, during In Process @ The Watermill Center. In Process allows direct engagement between the community and the Artists-in-Residence in the midst of their residency, giving them the opportunity to present and receive feedback on their work, and continue the development process throughout the remainder of their stay. The program is free and will be live-streamed via Zoom and The Center’s Facebook page.
Register online at www.eventbrite.com/e/143795555377.
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