Meet The Church’s April Artists-in-Residence

From March 25 to April 7, painter Naudline Pierre will be an artist-in-residence at The Church. During her time in Sag Harbor, Pierre will explore painting and large-scale works on paper, and plan large-scale sculptural works that explore the themes of fantasy and worldbuilding. Her works continue the art-historical tradition of portraying encounters between the earthly and the otherworldly, extending this lineage of image-making by injecting the conventions of her discipline with ephemerality and ambiguity.

Writer Drew Zeiba, in residence at The Church from April 5 to 28, will continue an ongoing novel and begin a companion video installation speculating on the pasts and possible futures of “lost islands.” Programmed as part of his residency and, in conjunction with The Church’s upcoming Artists Books day, on April 15 at 4 p.m., Zeiba will read an excerpt from his novel and host a Q&A session moderated by The Church Executive Director Sheri Pasquarella.

Pierre and Zeiba’s residencies have been scheduled as part of The Church’s “Mixed Media” residency period from March to May. During this time, individual artists of all media have been invited together in a combination designed by The Church, to stimulate dialogue and interdisciplinary collaboration.

Naudline Pierre lives and works in Brooklyn. She creates works that explore a mysterious alternate universe full of characters that often interact with each other in tender ways. Pierre holds an MFA from the New York Academy of Art and a BFA from Andrews University. Her work has been included in exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; The Armory Show, New York; Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles; Perrotin, Seoul; Stephen Friedman Gallery, London and Nicodim Gallery, Bucharest among others. Pierre’s works are in the permanent collection of the Pérez Art Museum Miami; CC Foundation in Shanghai; Dallas Museum of Art; the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University; and the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City.

Drew Zeiba writes fiction, criticism, and cultural journalism. His work has appeared recently in Fence, New York magazine, PIN–UP and Document Journal, among other publications, and in the monograph “Steve Schapiro: Andy Warhol and Friends” (Taschen). His prose chapbook “Edge Lust” (2022) is available from Quito’s Recodo Press. Zeiba’s solo and collaborative work has been exhibited and performed at institutions across the Americas, Europe and Asia, and is in the permanent collections of Shanghai’s Power Station of Art and New York’s Center for Book Arts.

The Church is at 48 Madison Street in Sag Harbor. Visit thechurchsagharbor.org for details.