#naudline pierre

[weepingwidar]

Naudline Pierre (Haitian-American, 1989) - I, a Terror Loosed Upon Your Heels (2020)

[granstromjulius]

Naudline Pierre

[aarchval]

Naudline Pierre, Chrysalis at the Altar of Change, 2022.

[killyridols]

the way eternal by naudline pierre, 2023, oil on canvas, 40 x 30 inches

[thesorceresstemple]

Art by Naudline Pierre 🩷

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NAUDLINE PIERRE /

Mythic 2024

[drafthearse]

Closer Still. Naudline Pierre. 2017. oil on canvas.

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Naudline Pierre :: Don't You Let Me Down Don't You Let Me Go

* * * * “But, in fact, impermanence is like some of the people we meet in life—difficult and disturbing at first, but on deeper acquaintance far friendlier and less unnerving than we could have imagined.” 

― Sogyal Rinpoche, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying

[alive on all channels]

[lasaraconor]

Naudline Pierre - In The Meantime, 2023

[lemuseum]

[olodara]

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Lead Me Gently Home, 2019

Oil on canvas

96 x 120 inches

O, May You Let It Out to Let It In, 2022

Naudline Pierre

[weepingwidar]

Naudline Pierre (Haitian-American, 1989) - Mythic (2024)

[granstromjulius]

Naudline Pierre

[onpyre]

Naudline Pierre

“I grew up in a Christian Protestant religion that heavily emphasized prophecy and the end of the world. I absorbed lots of visuals of beasts and fire, but also many references to otherworldly beings and a future new world,” says Pierre. The artist worked with this lexicon of imagery—a stew of heavy beasts that mark the end times and divine figures that signal lightness—and brought it all down to an intimate, personal level that makes the sublime imagery feel at home among us. “All of this filters into creating an alter-ego who lives in an alternate universe filled with fantastical beings and quite a lot of fire.”

Her compositions recall Renaissance tableaus in which figures from earthly realms comingled with the preternatural. The work also engages problems of authorship within art history, probing questions as to what it means to be a young Black woman painting into subjects long dominated by white European men.

“Lately, my religious texts include anything by Toni Morrison and Octavia Butler,” she says. “At this moment, I find myself going back to Sula and Song of Solomon by Morrison, and Butler’s Parable series. Both of these authors’ works quench my soul in indescribable ways.”

[killyridols]

lest you fall by naudline pierre, 2019, oil on canvas, 96 x 60 inches

[thesorceresstemple]