JACK PIERSON
2017-11-20For close to three decades, Pierson has created a multi-disciplinary artistic practice that utilizes the visual languages of photography, painting, drawing, and sculpture to examine themes of memory, desire, longing, absence, despair, and glamour.
The exhibition brings together a selection of Pierson’s signature large-scale word sculptures formed from individual found letters salvaged from vintage commercial signage, collected by the artist over the years. The sculptures are comprised of individual letters – each one with a distinct color, surface, texture, shape, and size – placed together to create incantations of emotionally charged words and poetic phrases.
Referencing traditional Americana motifs of roadside signage associated with the American West, within the gallery walls his sculptures like BROKE MISERABLE AND ALONE, DUST AND DREAMS, and MANIFEST DESTINY become decontextualized iconic messages imbued with nostalgia and disillusionment.
Opposite – PEOPLE ARE WEIRD, 2016
Exhibition runs through to December 23rd, 2017
Regen Projects
6750 Santa Monica Boulevard
CA 90038
Los Angeles
