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Untitled
Jack Pierson

Untitled

, 2014
  • Material
    Archival pigment print, screen print, glass flock on Entrada Rag 300 gm
  • Edition Size
    25
  • Measurement
    91,4 x 61 cm
    Edition 25
    signed and numbered
  • Details about the frame
    Handmade white glazed & waxed maple wood frame, external dimensions approx. 104.0 x 71.0 cm, incl. passe-partout, without glass. Incl. rear suspension
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About the Edition

Again and again, the sunset serves as an effective backdrop in Jack Pierson's intimate portraits. For the limited photo edition from 2014, the American artist has also come up with something very special: not only that the figure, sky and ocean are slightly blurred, which underlines the state of being enraptured again ‒ there are also mini glass beads (glassflock) which are applied to the surface and sparkle, much like water glittering in the sun. Due to the almost unreal rush of yellow, orange and blue, the perfectly composed picture almost tilts into abstraction. It reaches us on a mental and emotional level with seductive force!

About the artist

Jack Pierson works in different media: sculpture, photography, video and drawing. Pierson became internationally famous in 1991 with his "Word Pieces": Here he combined old letters of different sizes and materials, formerly advertising lettering or lettering on buildings, into new words or sentences such as "The world is yours" or "It just is". His short statements unfold an effect that is both political and poetic. He also attracted attention with his publication Self-Portrait (2003), for which he photographed handsome men of different ages, but not himself. While there is a strong sense of irony in this, feelings also play an important role in Pierson's work . He studied at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston and was part of the Boston School around Nan Goldin and Philip-Lorca diCorcia. Today the artist lives in New York City and Southern California. His works are represented in museum collections worldwide, in New York alone they are in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Guggenheim Museum.

Latest Exhibitions (Selection)

2019, Au rendez-vous des amis, Aurel Scheibler, Berlin
2019, The City And a Few Lonely People, ClampArt, New York
2017, Jack Pierson: 5 Shows from the ’90s, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen
2017, Feed Back, Marlborough Contemporary, New York
2016, Human Interest. Portraits from the Whitney’s Collection, Whitney Museum of
American Art, New York
2015, Jack Pierson: onthisisland, Cheim & Read, New York
2013, Ennui (La Vie Continue), Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
2010, Regen Projects, Los Angeles
2006, Into Me/Out of Me, PS 1 MoMA, Long Island City, New York
2008 Jack Pierson, Irish Museum of Art, Dublin
1999, Sprengel Museum Hannover
1993, Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1990, Simon Watson, New York

Links of Interest (Selection)

Jack Pierson interviewed by the author Eileen Myles for„Interview“-Magazin (2017)
Jack Pierson is represented by Cheim & Read, New York
Video-Interview with Jack Pierson

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