Sep 8, 2023, 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM

Artist and Curator Walkthrough: This Is Not All There Is

Naudline Pierre, This, I Know to Be True, 2023. Acrylic, acrylic ink, charcoal, and oil pastel on paper, 55 x 85 inches (139.7 x 215.9 cm). Courtesy of the artist © Naudline Pierre and James Cohan, New York. Photograph by Paul Takeuchi — Naudline Pierre, *This, I Know to Be True*, 2023. Acrylic, acrylic ink, charcoal, and oil pastel on paper, 55 x 85 inches (139.7 x 215.9 cm). Courtesy of the artist © Naudline Pierre and James Cohan, New York. Photograph by Paul Takeuchi

Join artist Naudline Pierre and curator Claire Gilman in This Is Not All There Is for an in-person walkthrough and conversation surrounding fantasy, flight, and imagined worlds.

Naudline Pierre harnesses the power of spiritual iconography and transcendental motifs in her layered wash drawings and richly-hued paintings to create fictional worlds rooted in a mythology of her own making. In her exhibition This Is Not All There Is, Pierre continues her exploration of imagined worlds, incorporating drawings large and small alongside and within sculptural elements to create an immersive environment. Organized by Chief Curator Claire Gilman, This is Not All There Is is the artist’s first exhibition to exclusively focus on her works on paper

Claire Gilman
Naudline Pierre

Naudline Pierre (b. 1989, Leominster, MA) received an MFA from New York Academy of Art, NY, and a BFA from Andrews University, MI. In 2021, her work was featured in Prospect.5 New Orleans and was the subject of a major solo exhibition at the Dallas Museum of Art. Pierre participated in the 2019–2020 Artist Residency program at the Studio Museum in New York and her work was exhibited in a three-person exhibition at MoMA PS1 as a culmination of the program. Pierre has participated in numerous group exhibitions, most recently at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO; the Pérez Art Museum Miami, FL; and the Museum of Contemporary Art,Chicago, IL. Her work belongs to the permanent collections of the Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX; The Dean Collection, Macedon, NY; ICA Miami, Miami, FL; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO; Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC; Pérez Art Museum, Miami, FL; and the CC Foundation, Shanghai, China.

The Drawing Center's Education and Community Programs are made possible by the May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation, Inc. Major support is provided by the Evelyn Toll Family Foundation and the LeRoy Neiman and Janet Byrne Neiman Foundation. Additional support is provided by the Cornelia T. Bailey Foundation, the Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation, the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, and the Claire and Theodore Morse Foundation.

Naudline Pierre: This Is Not All There Is is made possible by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, James Cohan, and Michi Jigarjian. Generous funding is provided by Olivier and Desiree Berggruen, David and Jocelyne DeNunzio, Kim Manocherian, Isabel Stainow Wilcox, Arri Burrows, Bill and Christy Gautreaux, and Bernard I. Lumpkin and Carmine D. Boccuzzi. Additional support is provided by Hedy Fischer and Randy Shull, Marieluise Hessel, and George Wells.