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Installation view, Naudline Pierre, The Mythic Age, James Cohan, 48 Walker Street, New York, NY, September 6 - October 19, 2024.

Installation view, Naudline Pierre, The Mythic Age, James Cohan, 48 Walker Street, New York, NY, September 6 - October 19, 2024.

Installation view, Naudline Pierre, The Mythic Age, James Cohan, 48 Walker Street, New York, NY, September 6 - October 19, 2024.

Installation view, Naudline Pierre, The Mythic Age, James Cohan, 48 Walker Street, New York, NY, September 6 - October 19, 2024.

Installation view, Naudline Pierre, The Mythic Age, James Cohan, 48 Walker Street, New York, NY, September 6 - October 19, 2024.

Installation view, Naudline Pierre, The Mythic Age, James Cohan, 48 Walker Street, New York, NY, September 6 - October 19, 2024.

Installation view, Naudline Pierre, The Mythic Age, James Cohan, 48 Walker Street, New York, NY, September 6 - October 19, 2024.

Installation view, Naudline Pierre, The Mythic Age, James Cohan, 48 Walker Street, New York, NY, September 6 - October 19, 2024.

Installation view, Naudline Pierre, The Mythic Age, James Cohan, 48 Walker Street, New York, NY, September 6 - October 19, 2024.

Installation view, Naudline Pierre, The Mythic Age, James Cohan, 48 Walker Street, New York, NY, September 6 - October 19, 2024.

Installation view, Naudline Pierre, The Mythic Age, James Cohan, 48 Walker Street, New York, NY, September 6 - October 19, 2024.

Installation view, Naudline Pierre, The Mythic Age, James Cohan, 48 Walker Street, New York, NY, September 6 - October 19, 2024.

Installation view, Naudline Pierre, The Mythic Age, James Cohan, 48 Walker Street, New York, NY, September 6 - October 19, 2024.

Installation view, Naudline Pierre, The Mythic Age, James Cohan, 48 Walker Street, New York, NY, September 6 - October 19, 2024.

Installation view, Naudline Pierre, The Mythic Age, James Cohan, 48 Walker Street, New York, NY, September 6 - October 19, 2024.

Installation view, Naudline Pierre, The Mythic Age, James Cohan, 48 Walker Street, New York, NY, September 6 - October 19, 2024.

Installation view, Naudline Pierre, The Mythic Age, James Cohan, 48 Walker Street, New York, NY, September 6 - October 19, 2024.

Installation view, Naudline Pierre, The Mythic Age, James Cohan, 48 Walker Street, New York, NY, September 6 - October 19, 2024.

Installation view, Naudline Pierre, The Mythic Age, James Cohan, 48 Walker Street, New York, NY, September 6 - October 19, 2024.

Installation view, Naudline Pierre, The Mythic Age, James Cohan, 48 Walker Street, New York, NY, September 6 - October 19, 2024.

Installation view, Naudline Pierre, The Mythic Age, James Cohan, 48 Walker Street, New York, NY, September 6 - October 19, 2024.

Installation view, Naudline Pierre, The Mythic Age, James Cohan, 48 Walker Street, New York, NY, September 6 - October 19, 2024.

Image of NAUDLINE PIERRE's It Appears in Solitude, 2024

NAUDLINE PIERRE

It Appears in Solitude, 2024

Oil on linen

60 x 48 in.
152.4 x 121.9 cm

 

JCG17271

Image of NAUDLINE PIERRE's A Remembering, 2024

NAUDLINE PIERRE

A Remembering, 2024

Oil on canvas

96 x 90 in.
243.8 x 228.6 cm

 

JCG17286

Image of NAUDLINE PIERRE's A Hopeful Many, 2024

NAUDLINE PIERRE

A Hopeful Many, 2024

Oil on linen

72 x 60 in.
182.9 x 152.4 cm

 

JCG17282

Image of NAUDLINE PIERRE's Longing For, 2024

NAUDLINE PIERRE

Longing For, 2024

Oil on canvas

48 x 96 in.
121.9 x 243.8 cm

 

JCG17270

Image of NAUDLINE PIERRE's Threshold 2, 2024

NAUDLINE PIERRE

Threshold 2, 2024

Powder-coated steel

13 1/2 x 18 3/4 x 3 5/8 in
34.3 x 47.6 x 9.2 cm

 

JCG17826

Image of NAUDLINE PIERRE's Awake My Love, 2023

NAUDLINE PIERRE

Awake My Love, 2023

Oil on canvas

120 x 96 in
304.8 x 243.8 cm

 

JCG14713

Image of NAUDLINE PIERRE's Dance of the Mythics, 2024

NAUDLINE PIERRE

Dance of the Mythics, 2024

Oil on canvas

96 x 90 in.
243.8 x 228.6 cm

 

JCG17287

Image of NAUDLINE PIERRE's Eternal Understanding, 2024

NAUDLINE PIERRE

Eternal Understanding, 2024

Oil on linen

96 x 60 in.
243.8 x 152.4 cm

 

JCG17273

Image of NAUDLINE PIERRE's The Fullness Of, 2024

NAUDLINE PIERRE

The Fullness Of, 2024

Oil on linen

96 x 60 in.
243.8 x 152.4 cm

 

JCG17274

Image of NAUDLINE PIERRE's Suspended in Tempo, 2024

NAUDLINE PIERRE

Suspended in Tempo, 2024

Oil on linen

96 x 60 in.
243.8 x 152.4 cm

 

JCG17272

Image of NAUDLINE PIERRE's Threshold 3, 2024

NAUDLINE PIERRE

Threshold 3, 2024

Powder-coated steel

32 7/8 x 59 3/4 x 1 1/4 in
83.5 x 151.8 x 3.2 cm

 

JCG17825

Press Release

James Cohan is pleased to present The Mythic Age, an exhibition of new paintings and sculptural interventions by Naudline Pierre, on view from September 6 through October 19, 2024, at the gallery’s 48 Walker Street location. This is Pierre’s second solo exhibition with James Cohan. The gallery will host an opening reception with the artist on Friday, September 6 from 6-8 PM.

 

Transformation is the central tenet of Naudline Pierre’s practice: evolution of the self, metamorphosis of the female form, escape from our earthly existence into the luminous unknown, and material oscillations from fresco-like dry brushing to aqueous gestures. Pierre paints scenes that are ever-shifting, in states of mystery and ecstatic potentiality. Her characters’ limbs and wings extend beyond the picture plane, as if to suggest that this atmospheric world, devoid of a horizon line, continues infinitely. 

 

Pierre transforms and reinvigorates disparate art historical references that span centuries, pointedly looking back to artists who did not and could not imagine her as their viewer, yet share a desire to reinvent and reimagine the universe. In her newest works, Pierre references Baroque and French academic painting of the 1800s, which opened the door to modernity and the heretical embrace of iconography in the service of personal, political, and radical self-expression. She draws freely from this distinctly male, European legacy of image-making, forming an intergenerational line between artists of radically different backgrounds to refashion historical motifs for a new audience.

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