Anne Austin Pearce (b.1968, Lawrence, Kansas) 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 international private collections and museum collections including; Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ, Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS, The Hadley Collection / Hays Medical, Kansas, 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.
“My work illustrates those moments for which there is no distinct emotional adjective to employ – ambiguous moments that occur exclusively in one’s head or often between two people at an intersection of communication. It happens when we are grappling with a dream deferred or an expectation not met. It is the time passed shifting sensibilities, wavering between resolution and avoidance, teetering at the threshold of debilitating anxiety or liberating submission, deciding what, when and how to speak, what to distill, and whether to scream.”
A Survey of Paintings by Anne Austin Pearce at SOKA University of America, Curated by Cara Megan Lewis of the Wende Museum
February 15 - September 12, 2024
Location: Founder’s Gallery, SOKA University, 1 University Drive, Aliso Viejo, CA 92656
