Stephanie Pierce:
Simple Pleasures 

Jupiter is pleased to present Simple Pleasures, a solo exhibition of new and never-before-seen work by Brooklyn-based artist Stephanie Pierce, which continues her longtime practice of working from prolonged observation—for a duration of months, if not years—to capture the effervescent fluidity of passing time.

While Pierce’s work has thus been rooted in a phenomenological experience of light, space, and time, most often framed by the view from her window, recent changes in her home life have caused her newest work to become more centered on the immediate present—and those simple pleasures of life in her house and garden. Though the softly geometric patterns of color that emerge as thin washes of paint are layered one upon another so as to create a translucent kaleidoscopic effect of refracted light continue to characterize her work, the paintings on view now evidence a newfound stillness.

Stephanie Pierce was born in 1974 in Memphis, TN. She received her MFA from the University of Washington, Seattle and attended the Yale Norfolk School of Art. She is an Assistant Professor of Painting at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. Her work has been exhibited at The Henry Art Gallery, Seattle; The Staten Island Museum, New York; and Asheville Art Museum, North Carolina. She received a Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant in 2014. Her work has been featured in New Yorker Magazine, Harper’s, and is included in the collections of William Dreyfus, Joan and Roger Sonnabend, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Walton Family Foundation and the Boston Public Library among others. Pierce lives and works in Brooklyn.