Naudline Pierre
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.
NAUDLINE PIERRE
It Appears in Solitude, 2024
Oil on linen
60 x 48 in.
152.4 x 121.9 cm
JCG17271
NAUDLINE PIERRE
A Remembering, 2024
Oil on canvas
96 x 90 in.
243.8 x 228.6 cm
JCG17286
NAUDLINE PIERRE
A Hopeful Many, 2024
Oil on linen
72 x 60 in.
182.9 x 152.4 cm
JCG17282
NAUDLINE PIERRE
Longing For, 2024
Oil on canvas
48 x 96 in.
121.9 x 243.8 cm
JCG17270
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
NAUDLINE PIERRE
Awake My Love, 2023
Oil on canvas
120 x 96 in
304.8 x 243.8 cm
JCG14713
NAUDLINE PIERRE
Dance of the Mythics, 2024
Oil on canvas
96 x 90 in.
243.8 x 228.6 cm
JCG17287
NAUDLINE PIERRE
Eternal Understanding, 2024
Oil on linen
96 x 60 in.
243.8 x 152.4 cm
JCG17273
NAUDLINE PIERRE
The Fullness Of, 2024
Oil on linen
96 x 60 in.
243.8 x 152.4 cm
JCG17274
NAUDLINE PIERRE
Suspended in Tempo, 2024
Oil on linen
96 x 60 in.
243.8 x 152.4 cm
JCG17272
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
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.
