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Naudline Pierre

Naudline Cluvie Pierre (born 1989), is an American visual artist working primarily in oil painting and drawing. Pierre's work incorporates traditional art historical references such as Renaissance portraiture, religious iconography, and figuration to create vibrant compositions. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.[1][2][3]

Naudline Cluvie Pierre
Born1989 (age 34–35)
Leominster, Massachusetts, United States
EducationAndrews University (BFA),
New York Academy of Art (MFA)
OccupationVisual artist
Known forPainting, drawing
Websitewww.naudline.com

Early life and education

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Naudline Pierre was born in 1989 in Leominster, Massachusetts. Pierre is the offspring of Haitian immigrants to the United States, her father is a church minister, and religious storytelling as well as Biblical narratives were ever-present while the artist was growing up.[4][5][6]

Pierre received an MFA degree from the New York Academy of Art, New York City (2017), and a BFA degree from Andrews University, a Christian liberal arts school in Michigan.[7] In a 2020 interview, Pierre elected Toni Morrison's Sula and Song of Solomon as well as Octavia E. Butler's the Parable of the Sower as influential readings.[8]

Work

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In 2019, Pierre presented the solo show For I Am With You Until the End of Time at Shulamit Nazarian gallery, in Los Angeles. Her interest in Christian iconography and celestial bodies were central in the content of the exhibition.[9][10][11]

Pierre's solo institutional solo debut What Could Be Has Not Yet Appeared took stage at the Dallas Museum of Art, Texas, in 2021. The one-person exhibition presenting nine large-scale paintings made between 2017 and 2021 touched on intimacy, the female body and care through celestial figures and altars.[12][13][14] In the exhibition review, Frieze Magazine critic Logan Lockner places Pierre's work between Fra Angelico's frescoes and the canvases of late Afro-Cuban painter Belkis Ayón.[15]

Pierre's inaugural exhibition in New York was at the James Cohan gallery in 2022. The exhibition Naudline Pierre: Enter the Realm occupying the two spaces the gallery owns in the Tribeca neighborhood. In the show, oil painted biblical motifs and large scale triptych panels were combined with objects.[16][17][18] Pierre joined James Cohan gallery, New York, in 2021.[19]

In 2023, the solo exhibition and accompanying publication This Is Not All There Is at the Drawing Center, New York, featuring her signature world-building imagery on paper, attracted extensive media attention.[20][7][21][22]

The Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto, Canada, organized the solo presentation Written in the Sky in 2023 and the large scale three-panel painting large-scale of same name produced in 2022 was acquired by the institution in 2024. According to the institutional statement, this acquisition was a joint effort between the Arts of Global Africa and the Diaspora and European Art departments.[23]

The artist's work has been included in group exhibitions at major art events and institutions including shows at the Prospect.5, New Orleans,[24] the Pérez Art Museum Miami,[25][26] the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art,[27] Kansas City, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, the California African American Museum,[28] among others.[29]

Artistic practice

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Pierre's oil paintings within her body of work are often addressed as fantastical and otherworldly due to its use of warm colors and depiction of celestial-like bodies and commentary on Western art history and vernacular of figurative painting.[30][31][32]

In a 2019 interview for Juxtapoz Magazine, Pierre stated, "there are moments in my painting practice when I focus on a specific thought. I daydream about what I want for my life and for the lives of those I love. I cry and I laugh at memories, too. And I always, always express gratitude. I'm essentially leaving remnants of those thoughts in the paint, in the texture and in the intention of it all."[33]

Artworks in notable collections

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Pierre's work has entered international museum collections in the United States and abroad.

  • Close Quarters, 2018. Pérez Art Museum Miami, Florida[34]
  • Don’t You Let Me Down, Don’t You Let Me Go, 2021. Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, Florida[35]
  • Eternal Depth of Love Divine, . Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, North Carolina[36]
  • Lest You Fall, 2019. Dallas Museum of Art, Texas[37]
  • Soft and Fragile, 2019. Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Missouri[27]Soft and Fragile, 2019. Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Missouri[27]
  • Though it May Hurt, Thus Shall You Grow, 2022. Brooklyn Museum, New York[38]
  • Written in the Sky, 2022. Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada[23]

Awards

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Pierre was awarded a Studio Museum in Harlem Artist Residency in 2019–2020, and their work was exhibited in This Longing Vessel at MoMA PS1, a three-person show featuring the residency cohort.[39][40]

References

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  1. ^ Dazed (2019-04-29). "Vote for Naudline Cluvie Pierre on the #Dazed100". Dazed. Retrieved 2024-03-27.
  2. ^ "Naudline Pierre On Color And Gesture In Painting". Studio Museum in Harlem. 2020-06-09. Retrieved 2024-03-27.
  3. ^ Romack, Coco (Jun 25, 2021). "A Painting of a Fiery Being From a Parallel Universe". The New York Times Magazine. Retrieved Mar 27, 2024.
  4. ^ "Naudline Pierre". Meer. 2018-04-16. Retrieved 2024-03-26.
  5. ^ Cascone, Sarah (2019-10-23). "Rising Art Star Naudline Pierre's Religious Upbringing Informs Her Ecstatic, Spiritual Canvases—See Them Here". Artnet News. Retrieved 2024-03-27.
  6. ^ "Gallery Gurls". Gallery Gurls. 2018-09-11. Retrieved 2024-03-27.
  7. ^ a b Nestor, Hate. "Naudline Pierre: This Is Not All There Is". www.studiointernational.com. Retrieved 2024-03-27.
  8. ^ "Naudline Pierre Makes Paintings Not Of This World". www.culturedmag.com. Retrieved 2024-03-27.
  9. ^ O'Leary, Erin (2019-10-15). "Naudline Pierre at Shulamit Nazarian". Carla. Retrieved 2024-03-27.
  10. ^ Cooper, Ashton (2019-12-01). "Naudline Pierre". Artforum. Retrieved 2024-03-27.
  11. ^ "BOMB Magazine | Agency and Transcendence: Naudline Pierre by Amelia…". BOMB Magazine. Retrieved 2024-03-27.
  12. ^ Worth·, Amy Bishop·ArtDallas/Ft (2021-10-13). "A World Apart: Naudline Pierre at the Dallas Museum of Art". Retrieved 2024-03-26.
  13. ^ "Femme powers and shades of black enliven Naudline Pierre's glimpse of a brighter future". Dallas News. 2022-01-26. Retrieved 2024-03-26.
  14. ^ "BOMB Magazine | Naudline Pierre by Stephanie E. Goodalle". BOMB Magazine. Retrieved 2024-03-27.
  15. ^ "Naudline Pierre Recalls Fiery Visions of Angels". Retrieved 2024-03-26.
  16. ^ Millet-Sorsa, Amanda (2022-06-01). "Naudline Pierre: Enter the Realm". The Brooklyn Rail. Retrieved 2024-03-27.
  17. ^ Volk, Gregory (2022-06-16). "Ascending Into the Realm of Naudline Pierre's Mystical Paintings". Hyperallergic. Retrieved 2024-03-27.
  18. ^ Obrist, Hans Ulrich (2022-10-01). "Naudline Pierre". Muse Magazine. Retrieved 2024-03-27.
  19. ^ "Rising Star Artist Naudline Pierre Has Just Joined James Cohan Gallery". Observer. 2021-03-18. Retrieved 2024-03-26.
  20. ^ "'I'm receiving messages from a parallel universe': Naudline Pierre on the ecstatic world of her works on paper". The Art Newspaper - International art news and events. 2023-06-30. Retrieved 2024-03-26.
  21. ^ "The Drawing Center: Naudline Pierre: This Is Not All There Is". The Drawing Center: Naudline Pierre: This Is Not All There Is. 2024-03-26. Retrieved 2024-03-27.
  22. ^ "The Spiritual Universe of Naudline Pierre | GOAT". www.goat.com. Retrieved 2024-03-27.
  23. ^ a b "Naudline Pierre: Written in the Sky". Art Gallery of Ontario. Retrieved 2024-03-27.
  24. ^ "Naudline Pierre". Prospect New Orleans. Retrieved 2024-03-26.
  25. ^ "Allied with Power: African and African Diaspora Art from the Jorge M. Pérez Collection". C& AMÉRICA LATINA. Retrieved 2024-03-26.
  26. ^ "'Often we consider Blackness as a monolith': Pérez museum presents global Black identity in all its diversity". The Art Newspaper - International art news and events. 2021-12-03. Retrieved 2024-03-26.
  27. ^ a b c "Naudline Pierre | Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art". www.kemperart.org. Retrieved 2024-03-26.
  28. ^ "CAAM | #5WomenArtists 2021: Naudline Pierre". caamuseum.org. Retrieved 2024-03-26.
  29. ^ "Spotlight: Naudline Pierre". The FLAG Art Foundation. Retrieved 2024-03-27.
  30. ^ "Naudline Pierre's Epic Paintings of Alternate Universes Explore the Concept of Power". Galerie. 2022-04-19. Retrieved 2024-03-27.
  31. ^ Franklin, Rob (2023-08-25). "Naudline Pierre: What Could Be Has Not Yet Appeared', & 'This Is Not All There Is'". LIBER Review. Retrieved 2024-03-27.
  32. ^ admin (2019-11-05). "Naudline Pierre". Artillery Magazine. Retrieved 2024-03-27.
  33. ^ Colin. "Juxtapoz Magazine - Naudline Pierre: Higher Love". www.juxtapoz.com. Retrieved 2024-03-27.
  34. ^ Wilson, Forrest (2022-01-01). "Eden Enflamed: An Examination of the Self through Fantastical Figures". Electronic Theses and Dissertations.
  35. ^ "Don't You Let Me Down, Don't You Let Me Go". Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami. Retrieved 2024-03-26.
  36. ^ "European Art". Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. Retrieved 2024-03-26.
  37. ^ "Dallas Museum of Art". dma.org. Retrieved 2024-03-26.
  38. ^ "Brooklyn Museum". www.brooklynmuseum.org. Retrieved 2024-03-26.
  39. ^ "Naudline Pierre". Studio Museum in Harlem. Retrieved 2024-03-27.
  40. ^ Valentine, Victoria L. (2019-07-12). "Studio Museum in Harlem Names 2019-2020 Artists-in-Residence: E. Jane, Naudline Pierre, and Elliot Reed". Culture Type. Retrieved 2024-03-27.
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