It was a great opening Saturday! Sharing the work in the gallery was blast, thanks to everyone who came out.
My solo show, Pulling Weeds from a Cactus Garden - Life is full of pricks, explores how myth and fable intertwine with our lives and consciousness.
The exhibit runs from August 20th to September 16th. The gallery is open Tuesday to Saturday, 10 to 5 and is located at 825 North La Cienega Blvd. Los Angeles, CA
From the Gallery 825 website:
In Nathalie Tierce’s solo show Pulling Weeds from a Cactus Garden - Life is full of pricks, the artist uses metaphor to convey the brutality of human interaction in her mixed media paintings and drawings. Diving into the dark space between desire and fear, her characters struggle within uneasy cartoon humor. These figures become the symbols of the unnamable angst for the stories that bombard us through social media and politics.
Using visual allegory as a purge, Tierce holds up the effects of current events insidiously becoming a part of us. The texture and color of these works are gritty and intense—the icons in her imagery battle in a dreamlike arena. The boundaries of this stage are the edges of passion and aggression - murky with the runoff of culture and the human condition.
Tierce’s search for emotional truths in suffering led her to create a theater of the absurd from these complex situations in her quest to deliver its essence with poetry and irony. Her pieces and short writing have been published in a book by the same title as the show.
