Anne Austin Pearce: Tidal

Anne Austin Pearce, Tidal, 2022, Acrylic , ink & collage on paper, 52 x 78 inches

Anne Austin Pearce: Tidal

November 10 – December 20, 2022

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Jenn Singer is pleased to present Anne Austin Pearce: Tidal, an online solo exhibition of new paintings on paper by American artist Anne Austin Pearce.

Following the Tucson Museum’s recent acquisition of Pearce’s large scale painting Slip: Loosened #3, 2003, a new body of work has emerged from the artist conjuring similar movement and mark making, but with the evolution of practice and looseness that only the gift of time can develop.

The works on paper in Tidal ebb and flow with movement and stillness, either with great rushes of energy or with a spacious sense of space and calm. Layers of acrylic painting and collaged cutouts make up Anne Austin Pearce’s work, creating a sense of depth and unexpected shape and pattern, while her watery inks lend softness and organic connection between it all.

In discussing her work, Anne Austin Pearce describes her reflections on words, storytelling and truths found in science and escapes from truths found in mythologies and fictions. “Stories are born of necessity when the future is opaque,” says Pearce. “Following the feverish parts of the pandemic, this series represents decisive steps towards finding specks of joy in each immediate moment passed through. If there was an impulse to think of the future – mine, ours, yours, those about to be born and yet to be born – it was met with a font of hope placed in a center of human’s ability to imagine and reinvent in the face of so much apparent despair.”

Pearce is a Midwesterner living in coastal Southern California, and her fascination with the huge, endless energy of the sea and its containment of so many mysteries is reflected in this new body of work. “Tidal was made as a love letter to the sea. The oceans and tide pools remain new and spectacular to me, this vastness of liquid movement. There are worlds within worlds we don’t yet understand. When the tide is out, we get to see, ever so briefly, plants and creatures so extraordinarily beautiful, vulnerable, and fragile it boggles the mind. This ocean space and movement I consider a metaphor for what we must do and be, how we must preserve the ability to continuously open space for empathy and continue to drive efforts to protect our Earth.”

Visit jennsingergallery.com beginning November 10, 2022 to view Anne Austin Pearce: Tidal or email info@jennsingergallery.com for more information about the artist and her work.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

ANNE AUSTIN PEARCE (b.1968, Lawrence, Kansas. Currently lives and works in Laguna Beach, CA)

Anne Austin Pearce studied printmaking at the Kansas City Art Institute, Brighton Polytechnic and the University of Kansas. In 1993, Pearce received a full scholarship to James Madison University, where she received her MFA in drawing and painting. A recipient of a Charlotte Street Award, she has participated in multiple national and international residencies including UCROSS Foundation, Wyoming, DRAWinternational, Caylus, France, Rimbun Dahan, KL Malaysia, and pARTage, Flic en Flac, Mauritious and Akumal Mexico. 

Pearce’s work is held in private collections and museum collections including; Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ, Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS,  Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, MO, MDC Museum of Art, Miami, FL. Selected exhibitions include Daum Museum, Springfield Museum, Springfield, MO, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS, Invisible Dog Art Center, Brooklyn, NY, Shore Institute for Contemporary Art, Corcoran School of Art and Design, Washington DC; and the Drawing Center, New York City.

ABOUT THE GALLERY

Jenn Singer opened the doors of her jewel box gallery in New York City’s historic Gramercy Park neighborhood in 2015. We have since grown to an expanded, international online-based presence.

We proudly represent a diverse, international program of contemporary artists. Our online gallery provides a selection of available artwork; however, we have an expanded selection of work available on request from artists around the world. We also serve as a source for established and blue chip modern and contemporary artists for placement in public & private collections. 

Jenn Singer’s artists & exhibitions have been featured in Wallpaper*, Cultured Magazine, Cosmopolitan, VICE - The Creators Project, The Huffington Post, Glamour Spain and Hi-Fructose Magazine, among others. 

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