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| Florence Pierce poured layers of resin (mixed with pigment and/or milled fiberglass or Cabosil)
onto a square of mirrored Plexiglas. The resulting work of art is like a
living embodiment of light. A member of the Taos Transcendental Painting
Group in the late 1930s, Pierce enjoyed a long and illustrious career; her work is represented in public and private collections all over the country. |
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 Installation View, 564 Orange, 553 Dense Fiber, 557 Orange |
 Installation View, 563 Yellow, 533 Milled Fiber, 554 Yellow |
 Installation View, 556 Turquoise, 559 Green, 558 Blue Green |
 Installation View, 560 Blue, 561 Green |
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Florence Pierce was born in Washington, D.C. She lives in Albuquerque.
EDUCATION
1935-36 Duncan Phillips Collection, Studio School, Washington, D.C. 1936-39 Emil Bisttram School of Art, Taos, NM
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2005 Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona 2004 Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM 2003 Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM 2002 Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM 2001 Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM 2000 Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM 1999 Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM 1998 Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM Kiyo Higashi Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1997 Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM The Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM 1996 Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM 1995 The Amarillo Art Museum, Amarillo, TX 1994 Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL Boritzer/Gray Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 1992 Boritzer/Gray Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 1991 Graham Gallery, Albuquerque, NM 1988 LewAllen-Butler Gallery, Santa Fe, NM 1987 Graham Gallery, Albuquerque, NM 1985 Raymond Jonson Gallery, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 1974 Raymond Jonson Gallery, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2004-05 In Pursuit of Perfection: The Work of Agnes Martin, Maria Martinez and Florence Pierce, Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, NM 2003 Recipients of Governor's Award, Governor's Gallery, Santa Fe, NM 2001 Originals: New Mexico Women Artists, organized by the New Mexico Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Harwood Museum, Taos, NM Collectors Gallery XXXIV, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX 1999 Postmark: An Abstract Effect, Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM The Transcendental Painting Group: Major Paintings, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY 1998 The City Series, Cedar Rapids Museum, Cedar Rapids, IA 1995 Award Recipient Exhibition - SITE Santa Fe Honors New Mexico Artists, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM Independent Spirits: Women Artists of the American West, 1890-1945, Autry Museum of Western Heritage, L.A., Calif. 1995 Recent Acquisitions from Florence Miller Pierce, Jonson Gallery, University of N M, Albuquerque, NM Selected Works by Taos Artists From the Collections of the University of New Mexico Museum and the Jonson Gallery, Harwood Foundation, Museum of the University of New Mexico, Taos, NM Festival of the Arts, invited exhibitor; sponsor: City of Albuquerque, NM 1994 Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM Still Working, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; traveled to: I.B.M. Gallery, New York, NY; Virginia Beach Center for the Arts; Fisher Art Gallery at U.S.C., Los Angeles, CA; Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL Contemporary Constructivism in the West, Boritzer/Grey Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 1993 Three Women - Mala Breuer, Agnes Martin, Florence Pierce, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM Sublime Presence (invitational), Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM 1992 Kandinsky and the American Avant-Garde: 1912-1950, Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH; traveled to: The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C; Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, IL; Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, Fort Worth, TX Intimate Objects, Graham Gallery, Albuquerque, NM 1990-91 Alcove Show Invitational, Fine Arts Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, NM 1991 The Second Wave: American Abstraction of the 1930's and 1940's – Selections from the Penny and Elton Yosuna Collection, The Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA; traveled to: Samuel P. Harn Museum, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL; Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE 1990 The Art of Albuquerque, Albuquerque Community Foundation and the Museum of Albuquerque, Albuquerque, NM 1989 Albuquerque 50's, University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM Invitational, Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, NM 1985 On the Wall/Off the Wall (invitational), Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, NM 1984 Invitational, Roswell Museum Art Center, Roswell, NM 1983 Daily Bread: Art from the Female Experience, Public Library of Albuquerque, Albuquerque, NM Mary Caird - Florence Pierce, Meridian Gallery, Albuquerque, NM 1982 Invitational, Meridian Gallery, Albuquerque, NM The Transcendental Painting Group of New Mexico, The Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM The Transcendentalists, Martin Diamond Gallery, New York, NY 1975 The Fine Arts Museum of New Mexico Biennial, The Fine Arts Museum, Santa Fe, NM 1973 The Fine Arts Museum of New Mexico Biennial, The Fine Arts Museum, Santa Fe, NM 1971 Los Angeles County Fine Arts Fair, Los Angeles, CA
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM City of Albuquerque Public Art Program Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI Amarillo Museum of Art, Amarillo, TX Henry Art Museum, University of Washington, Seattle, WA Jonson Gallery, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM Lannan Foundation, Santa Fe, NM Liquid Paper Company, Houston, TX The Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, NM Rockefeller University, New York, NY Rust Tractor Company, Albuquerque, NM Sasebo Museum, Sasebo, Japan
SELECTED PRIVATE COLLECTIONS Dr. and Mrs. Jonathan Abrams, Albuquerque, NM Mr. and Mrs. Burt Berman, Venice, CA Mr. and Mrs. Duncan Boeckman, Dallas, TX Duffy/Goodman Partnership, Chicago, IL Natalie and Irving Forman, Santa Fe, NM George Riley de Havenon, New York, NY Charlotte Grey Jackson, Santa Fe, NM Ann Janss, Los Angeles, CA Patrick Lannan, Santa Fe, NM The Murrel Collection, Newport Beach, CA Mr. and Mrs. Lou Narienthal, Beverly Hills, CA Dr. and Mrs. Michael Ogg, Santa Fe, NM Juanita Stiff, Roswell, NM
SELECTED AWARDS 2003 Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts 1996 Albuquerque Arts Alliance, Award for Fine Art 1995 SITE Santa Fe grant
RECENT PUBLICATIONS/CATALOGUES/JOURNALS 2005 "Florence Pierce, Artist Studio," Santa Fe Trend Magazine, Winter-Spring 2004 Cover story, El Palacio, Museum of New Mexico Review, Santa Fe New Mexican Review, THE Magazine Article, Albuquerque Journal 2003 Review, Art in America Preview, Santa Fean Magazine 2002 "Dangerous Beauty," Teri Thomson Randall, The New Mexican, December 13 2001 "Florence Pierce/Charlotte Jackson Fine Art," ARTnews, March 2001 1999 The Transcendental Painting Group: Major Paintings (catalog), Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York "Florence Miller Pierce at Charlotte Jackson," Art in America, May 1999 1998 American Abstract Art of the 1930's and 1940's: The J. Donald Nichols Collection, Harry Abrams Press In Touch with Light, Lucy R. Lippard, Twin Palms Press "Taking the High Road," Art and Auction, October 1998 1996 "Group Exhibition -- SITE Santa Fe: Eight New Mexico Artists," by Richard Tobin, THE Magazine, Jan.-Feb. 1996 1995 Independent Spirits - Women Painters of the American West, 1890 - 1945, ed. Patricia Trenton; Autry Museum of American Heritage in conjunction with the University of Cal. Press "Aperto: Santa Fe," by Mark Van de Walle, Flash Art "Report from Santa Fe - Going Mainstream," by Jan Ernst Adlmann, Art in America, January 1995 1994 Still Working, ed. by Stuart Shedletsky The Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C., Parsons School of Design in association w/ the University of Washington Press "Florence Pierce," Inverview and cover photos by Guy Cross, THE Magazine, October 94 "Still Working: Late Bloomers in Full Flower," J. Lewis, Washington Post, June 27, 1994 "A Cornerstone of Beauty - From the Ground Up, a Corcoran Centennial," by Paul Richard, Washington Post, May 11, "Great Open Spaces," by David Michelle, Artweek, April 7, 1994 "Art Picks of the Week," by Peter Frank, LA Weekly, April 1, 1994 Art Galleries, by Susan Kandel, Los Angeles Times, March 3, 1994 1993 "Sublime Presence," Kathleen Shields, The Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, NM 1992 Theme and Improvisation: Kandinsky and the American Avant-Garde 1912-1950, Gail Levine and Marianne Lorenz, Dayton Art Institute "New Mexico: Growing Internationalism," by William Peterson, ARTNews, April 1992 1991 "In the Light," Artspace The Second Wave: American Abstraction of the 1930's and 1940's, by Susan E. Strickler and Elaine D. Gustafson, Worcester Art Museum 1990 "Art Throb," Lear's Magazine, Fall 1990 1989 "Albuquerque 50's," UNM Art Museum, November 1989 Exposures: Women and their Art, Brown, Love, and Raven 1988 "Abstract Painting in New Mexico," by William Peterson, Artspace 1987 "Transcendental Paintings Inspired by the Landscape and Mind, "Kathryn Gabriel, Quantum, University of New Mexico 1983 Daily Bread: Art from the Female Experience" New Mexico Arts Division, National Endowment for the Arts 1982 The Transcendental Painting Group of New Mexico, 1938-1941, the Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM
TELEVISION 1994 "Still Working," CBS, The Sunday Morning Show, June 26, 1994 1990 "The Art of Growing Older," KNME-TV, Los Colores, NM , February 14, 1990 |
