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NAUDLINE PIERRE
Mythic, 2024
oil and oil stick on canvas
96 x 90 in
152.4 x 243.8 cm
JCG14718
NAUDLINE PIERRE
And There You Are, 2023
Oil and oil stick on canvas
96 x 60 in.
243.8 x 152.4 cm
JCG13102
NAUDLINE PIERRE
Transfiguration, 2023
Oil on panel
40 x 60 in overall
101.6 x 152.4 cm overall
40 x 30 in when closed
(JCG12959)
NAUDLINE PIERRE
Transfiguration, 2023
Oil on panel
40 x 60 in overall
101.6 x 152.4 cm overall
40 x 30 in when closed
JCG12959
NAUDLINE PIERRE
I Will Be Made New, 2023
Oil and oil stick on canvas
96 x 48 in.
233.7 x 121.9 cm
JCG15368
NAUDLINE PIERRE
The Only Way Out Is In, 2023
Oil and oil stick on canvas
96 x 120 in
243.8 x 304.8 cm
JCG14712
NAUDLINE PIERRE
The Way Eternal, 2023
Oil on canvas
40 x 30 in
101.6 x 76.2 cm
JCG14722
NAUDLINE PIERRE
Sensuous Supplication, 2023
Patinated steel
43 3/4 x 60 in
111 x 152.4 cm
Edition of 3 plus 2 artist's proofs (#1/3)
JCG15264
NAUDLINE PIERRE
Omnipotent, 2023
Acrylic ink, charcoal, and oil pastel on paper
48 x 24 in
121.9 x 61 cm
JCG15176
NAUDLINE PIERRE
An Invocation, 2023
Oil and oil stick on canvas
96 x 60 in.
243.8 x 152.4 cm
JCG13101
NAUDLINE PIERRE
The Deepest Part, 2023
Oil on canvas
60 x 96 in
152.4 x 243.8 cm
JCG14719
NAUDLINE PIERRE
I, A Terror Loosed Upon Your Heels, 2022
Oil on canvas
96 x 120 in.
243.8 x 304.8 cm
JCG13104
NAUDLINE PIERRE
Chrysalis at the Altar of Change, 2022
Oil, enamel, and oil stick on canvas
120 x 96 in.
304.8 x 243.8 cm
JCG13116
NAUDLINE PIERRE
For I Will Strike and I Will Soothe, 2022
Oil and enamel on canvas
96 x 60 in
243.8 x 152.4 cm
JCG12922
NAUDLINE PIERRE
Held and Beheld, 2022
Signed and dated verso
Oil and enamel on linen
60 x 72 in.
152.4 x 182.9 cm
JCG13106
NAUDLINE PIERRE
Give Me Freedom, Give Me Love Everlasting, 2022
Oil on panel with wrought iron platform
84 x 44 x 20 in.
213.4 x 111.8 x 50.8 cm
JCG13110
NAUDLINE PIERRE
May You Enter Without Fear, May You Leave Without Regret, 2022
Wrought-iron gate
108 x 132 in
274.3 x 335.3 cm
JCG13114
NAUDLINE PIERRE
Close to You, 2021-2022
Oil and enamel on linen
40 x 30 in
101.6 x 76.2 cm
JCG12928
NAUDLINE PIERRE
I Dreamed of Love, 2021-2022
Signed and dated verso
Oil on linen
40 x 30 in
101.6 x 76.2 cm
JCG12927
NAUDLINE PIERRE
Power Within, 2021
Oil on canvas
84 x 60 in.
213.4 x 152.4 cm
JCG12448
NAUDLINE PIERRE
Fear Not, 2021
Oil on canvas
72 x 48 in.
182.9 x 121.9 cm
JCG12889
NAUDLINE PIERRE
Guardian (Somewhere), 2021
Oil and acrylic on canvas
108 x 36 in.
274.3 x 91.4 cm
JCG12385
NAUDLINE PIERRE
Guardian (Elsewhere), 2021
Oil and acrylic on canvas
108 x 36 in.
274.3 x 91.4 cm
JCG12385
NAUDLINE PIERRE
To Make You Whole, 2021
Oil on canvas
84 x 60 in
213.4 x 152.4 cm
JCG12447
NAUDLINE PIERRE
Hereafter, Ye Shall Be Changed, 2021
Oil on linen
44 x 32 in
111.8 x 81.3 cm
JCG12516
NAUDLINE PIERRE
Affection and Protection, 2020
Oil on canvas
60 x 72 in.
152.4 x 182.9 cm
JCG12137
NAUDLINE PIERRE
Tell Me Where it Hurts, 2020
Oil on canvas
66 x 48 in.
167.6 x 121.9 cm
JCG12133
NAUDLINE PIERRE
Left: Guardian (in Yellow), 2020
Oil and acrylic on canvas
108 x 36 in.
274.3 x 91.4 cm
JCG12134
Center: A Source of Power, 2020
Oil and acrylic on canvas
108 x 36 in.
274.3 x 91.4 cm
JCG12136
Right:
Guardian (in Green), 2020
Oil and acrylic on canvas
108 x 36 in.
274.3 x 91.4 cm
JCG12135
NAUDLINE PIERRE
A Timely Rescue, 2019-2020
Oil on canvas
84 x 60 in.
213.4 x 152.4 cm
JCG12131
NAUDLINE PIERRE
Too Much, Not Enough, 2019-2020
Oil on canvas
60 x 40 in.
152.4 x 101.6 cm
NAUDLINE PIERRE
Abide in Me, Delight in Me, 2019-2020
Oil on canvas
7 x 5 in.
17.8 x 12.7 cm
NAUDLINE PIERRE
We Are Here, 2019-2020
Oil on canvas
30 x 40 in.
76.2 x 101.6 cm
JCG12132
NAUDLINE PIERRE
There, There (It Was Foretold), 2019
Oil on canvas
96 x 156 in.
243.8 x 396.2 cm
NAUDLINE PIERRE
Hold On, Hold Tight, 2019
Oil on canvas
84 x 60 in.
213.4 x 152.4 cm
NAUDLINE PIERRE
The Affliction of Love, 2019
Oil on canvas
50 x 40 in.
127 x 101.6 cm
NAUDLINE PIERRE
Lest You Fall, 2019
Oil on canvas
96 x 60 in.
243.8 x 152.4 cm
NAUDLINE PIERRE
Lead Me Gently Home, 2019
Oil on canvas
96 x 120 in.
243.8 x 304.8 cm
NAUDLINE PIERRE
Eternal Depth of Love Divine, 2019
Oil on panel
35 x 48 in.
88.9 x 121.9 cm
NAUDLINE PIERRE
Love Becomes Her, 2019
Oil on panel
34 x 48 in.
86.4 x 121.9 cm
NAUDLINE PIERRE
A Subtle Reminder, 2018-2019
Oil on canvas
48 x 38 in.
121.9 x 96.5 cm
NAUDLINE PIERRE
The Thrill of Affection, 2018
Oil on canvas
30 x 24 in.
76.2 x 61 cm
NAUDLINE PIERRE
CloseQuarters, 2018
Oil on canvas
46 x 29 in.
116.8 x 73.7 cm
NAUDLINE PIERRE
A Light in the Dark, 2018
Oil on canvas
49 x 38 in.
124.5 x 96.5 cm
NAUDLINE PIERRE
Blessed are the Blessed, 2018
Oil on canvas
48 x 38 in.
121.9 x 96.5 cm
NAUDLINE PIERRE
Hold Me This Way, 2017
Oil and enamel on canvas
54 x 52 in
137.2 x 132.1 cm
ZNI0912
NAUDLINE PIERRE
For a Little While Longer, 2017
Oil on canvas
42 x 36 in.
106.7 x 91.4 cm
NAUDLINE PIERRE
A Steady Closeness, 2017
Oil and enamel on canvas
48 x 38 in.
121.9 x 96.5 cm
NAUDLINE PIERRE
Mouth-to-mouth, 2017
Oil on canvas
24 x 22 in.
61 x 55.9 cm
NAUDLINE PIERRE
Closer Still, 2017
Oil on canvas
48 x 38 in.
121.9 x 96.5 cm
Naudline Pierre Feature. Film by Greg Poole. Produced by James Cohan, 2021.
Photo: Molly Matalon
Naudline Pierre’s paintings draw from fantasy and iconography to conjure alternate worlds. Swirling with jewel-toned texture, her works center ecstasy, devotion, and tenderness in epic scenes that generate space for rescue and healing. Pierre’s winged figures are enveloped in vast, horizonless landscapes, where they come together in acts of intimacy and salvation: they reach longingly outward toward each other, congregate, and embrace, emoting protection and care.
Rendered in layers of prismatic-colored washes, the artist’s subjects are limitless and uniquely out of step with time. Cast within stories of sublimation, mercy, and resurrection, their ethereal bodies defy boundaries set by inherited mythology and art-historical precedent. Within these narratives, Pierre inscribes her alter-ego as protagonist—a vessel to explore the infinite future possibilities that can be accessed through imagination and self-possession.
Pierre’s work situates personal mythology and transcendent intimacy alongside canonical narratives of devotion. Her works continue the art-historical tradition of portraying encounters between the earthly and the otherworldly, extending this lineage of image-making by injecting the conventions of her discipline with ephemerality and ambiguity. Referencing the Renaissance format of the altar triptych, for example, or incorporating flattened space and forced perspective, she reconfigures formal systems from the past to generate new possible futures grounded in the here and now.
Naudline Pierre (b. 1989, Leominster, MA) received an M.F.A. from New York Academy of Art, NY, and a B.F.A. from Andrews University, MI. Pierre has been the subject of major solo exhibitions at The Drawing Center (2023) and the Dallas Museum of Art (2021). Pierre participated in the 2019–2020 Studio Museum’s Artist Residency and, as a culmination of the program, exhibited in a three-person exhibition at MoMA PS1. Pierre has been featured in numerous group exhibitions, most recently at Fondation Carmignac, Hyères, France; the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO; Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France; Palazzo Barberini, Rome, Italy; the Pérez Art Museum Miami, FL; Prospect.5 New Orleans, LA; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada; the Brooklyn Museum, NY; the Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX; The Dean Collection, Macedon, NY; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; ICA Miami, Miami, FL; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO; Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC; Pérez Art Museum Miami, FL; Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington, DC; Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY; Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA; and the CC Foundation, Shanghai, China. Pierre lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
Photo: Rafael Martinez
Naudline Pierre’s paintings draw from fantasy and iconography to conjure alternate worlds. Swirling with jewel-toned texture, her works center ecstasy, devotion, and tenderness in epic scenes that generate space for rescue and healing. Pierre’s winged figures are enveloped in vast, horizonless landscapes, where they come together in acts of intimacy and salvation: they reach longingly outward toward each other, congregate, and embrace, emoting protection and care.
Rendered in layers of prismatic-colored washes, the artist’s subjects are limitless and uniquely out of step with time. Cast within stories of sublimation, mercy, and resurrection, their ethereal bodies defy boundaries set by inherited mythology and art-historical precedent. Within these narratives, Pierre inscribes her alter-ego as protagonist—a vessel to explore the infinite future possibilities that can be accessed through imagination and self-possession.
Pierre’s work situates personal mythology and transcendent intimacy alongside canonical narratives of devotion. Her works continue the art-historical tradition of portraying encounters between the earthly and the otherworldly, extending this lineage of image-making by injecting the conventions of her discipline with ephemerality and ambiguity. Referencing the Renaissance format of the altar triptych, for example, or incorporating flattened space and forced perspective, she reconfigures formal systems from the past to generate new possible futures grounded in the here and now.
Naudline Pierre (b. 1989, Leominster, MA) received an M.F.A. from New York Academy of Art, NY, and a B.F.A. from Andrews University, MI. In 2021, her work will be featured in Prospect.5 New Orleans, and is the subject of a major forthcoming solo exhibition at the Dallas Museum of Art. Pierre participated in the 2019–2020 Studio Museum’s Artist Residency and her work was exhibited in a three-person exhibition at MoMA PS1 as a culmination of the program. Pierre has participated in numerous group exhibitions, most recently at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO; the Pérez Art Museum Miami, FL; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL. She was the recipient of the 2016 Estée Lauder Merit Award from the New York Academy of Art. Her work belongs to the permanent collections of the Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX; The Dean Collection, Macedon, NY; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO; Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC; Pérez Art Museum Miami, FL; and the CC Foundation, Shanghai, China.
Explore Naudline Pierre's large-scale paintings and mystical influences in Art21's new film, “A Place Other Than Here."
In this brief interview, watch Naudline Pierre discuss her practice from her Brooklyn studio. Pierre examines the rich imagery of the paintings on view at MoMA PS1 in This Longing Vessel, the three-person capstone exhibition of the 2019–2020 Studio Museum’s Artist Residency program.