I am very excited to announce that I will be a Villa Exarchia artist-in-residence at Phoenix Athens with director Dimitri Yin in Athens, Greece for six weeks this summer!
I hope to create a new body of artwork atop substrates that speak directly to the age and history of Athens: papyrus, old ceramic tiles, and marble. Dimitri has shared that I will be able to visit a population of endangered tortoises residing nearby, and I look forward to documenting them as well as other fauna and/or flora in the Athenian ecosystem.
This will be my first time in Greece, and it will also be my first international artist residency since the pandemic descended (though it will be my ninth international residency and thirteenth residency total).
Είμαι πολύ ενθουσιασμένη! (That hopefully is Greek for “I am very excited!” I’ve been learning a little Greek in anticipation of my stay, but it’s pretty slow going as switching to a new alphabet is difficult for me.)