Stephanie Pierce “Signal”

steven harvey fine art projects

[Image: Stephanie Pierce "Moonrise" (2017) oil on linen, 64 x 50 in.]

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Pierce’s work is intrinsically related to place and light. Previously she has made paintings of windows, the transitional frame between inside and out. This exhibition includes recent paintings of views from Staten Island overlooking New York Harbor. Her long-term observation, sometimes over months, brings an implied element of time into her painting. Slight adjustments of perspective lend them a subtle perceptual flicker.

Stephanie Pierce was born and raised in Memphis, Tennessee. She obtained her MFA at the University of Washington in Seattle. In 2007, she began teaching at the University of Arkansas. While she was there she created a DIY space for art and music called Lalaland. Two years ago, she took a position teaching painting at FIT in New York City.

Brett Baker, writing about her last show at SHFAP in 2014, stated that Pierce “…approaches the ‘impossible’ task of capturing nature with lucid patience – a consistent, unhurried focus…. In her paintings, thousands of highly varied marks rise into place, each notation of light rustling gently against the next.”

In 2014, Pierce received the Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors’ Grant. Her work is currently included in Disrupted Realism at Stanek Gallery in Philadelphia.