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Bruce Pearson ![Pearson Erase Return2018](/assets/hero_images/_1600x800_crop_top-center_75_none/13366/Pearson-Erase-Return2018.jpg) Bruce Pearson Erase Return, 2018 detail Biography Bruce Pearson makes distinctive and hypnotic works that push the limits of painting. Constructed on Styrofoam panels, his paintings are fields of sensuous color and intricately creviced surfaces, with visceral impact and optical effects. His seamlessly constructed, intricately layered images are unique investigations in which text is the basis of image and image reverberates with meaning. Pearson has been exhibiting professionally for 15 years, including four solo exhibitions at Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, two museum exhibitions at the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University in Massachusetts and the Gallery of Art at the Johnson County Community College in Kansas. His work was included in Open House: Working in Brooklyn exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum of Art (2004), Visual Politics: Art and the World at the Miami Art Museum (2003), Greater New York: New Art in New York Now at P.S.1 (2000) and Project 63: Karin Davie, Udomsak Kirsanamis, Bruce Pearson and Fred Tomaselli at the Museum of Modern Art (1998). Pearson’s work is included in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. He was awarded a Skowhegan Residency in 2001 and has lectured and critiqued at many institutions, including the School of Visual Arts and Parsons School of Design. He currently lives and works in New York. [ ![](/src/images/down-arrow.svg) View CV ](https://feldmangallery.com/assets/pdfs/artistCV/pearson_bio_letterhead_2023-08-09-172144_xuje.pdf) [ ![](/src/images/redirect.svg) Artist Website ](http://www.brucepearsonstudio.com/) Exhibitions [ ![](/assets/exhibition_images/Pearson-Erase-Return2018_1.JPG) ](https://feldmangallery.com/exhibition/342.5-pearson-shadow-language) Apr 26 – Jun 07, 2019 Bruce Pearson [ Shadow Language ](https://feldmangallery.com/exhibition/342.5-pearson-shadow-language) [ ![](/assets/exhibition_images/Group/2018-Reprise/Heaton-Shamanic-Bee-2013-2015.JPG) ](https://feldmangallery.com/exhibition/334-reprise-summer-show-2018-5-12-8-31-2018) Jun 11 – Aug 23, 2018 Group Show [ Reprise: Summer Show 2018 ](https://feldmangallery.com/exhibition/334-reprise-summer-show-2018-5-12-8-31-2018) [ ![](/assets/exhibition_images/Pearson-Not-To-Interrupt-Your-Beautiful-Moment-2010.jpg) ](https://feldmangallery.com/exhibition/306-free-gateways-pearson-10-19-11-16-2013) Oct 18 – Nov 15, 2013 Bruce Pearson [ Free Gateways ](https://feldmangallery.com/exhibition/306-free-gateways-pearson-10-19-11-16-2013) [ ![](/assets/exhibition_images/Group/2009-black-white-works/Beuys-Large-Glacier-Thaw-1952.jpg) ](https://feldmangallery.com/exhibition/276-black-white-works-group-6-6-7-31-2009) Jun 05 – Jul 30, 2009 Group Show [ Black & White Works ](https://feldmangallery.com/exhibition/276-black-white-works-group-6-6-7-31-2009) [See All Exhibitions ](/past_exhibitions/bruce-pearson) ![Pearson The Past Is A Life Sentence A Blunt Instrument Aimed At Tomorrow 2018 Expanded Canvas](/assets/exhibition_images/Pearson-The-Past-Is-A-Life-Sentence-A-Blunt-Instrument-Aimed-At-Tomorrow-2018-expanded-canvas.jpg) Bruce Pearson The Past Is A Life Sentence, A Blunt Instrument Aimed At Tomorrow, 2018 View Gallery ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/close_btn.svg) ![Pearson The Past Is A Life Sentence A Blunt Instrument Aimed At Tomorrow 2018 Expanded Canvas]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Bruce Pearson The Past Is A Life Sentence, A Blunt Instrument Aimed At Tomorrow, 2018 Collaboration with Claudia Rankine and Zack Garlitos ![Pearson Already Gone 2017 Gouache Copy Expanded Canvas]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Bruce Pearson Already Gone, 2017 ![Pearson Fear Of Death Hope Of Heaven Trip To Disney 2017 Gouache Expanded Canvas]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Bruce Pearson Fear of Death Hope of Heaven Trip to Disney, 2017 ![Pearson And Who Hasnt Dreamed Of Growing Up To Become A Princess 1 2013]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Bruce Pearson And Who Hasn't Dreamed of Growing up to Become a Princess (1), 2013 ![Dsc 4608]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Bruce Pearson And who hasn't dreamed of growing up to become a princess 2, 2013 ![Dsc 4475]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Bruce Pearson Intoxicating flow, 2013 ![Bruce Pearson Late Hour 2013]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Bruce Pearson Late Hour, 2013 ![Pearson Bruce 3 1]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Bruce Pearson New Organic Life, 2013 ![Pearson Installation View Of South Gallery 2005 C](/assets/exhibition_images/Pearson-Installation-View-of-South-Gallery-2005_C.JPG) Bruce Pearson Bruce Pearson, 2005 View Gallery ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/close_btn.svg) ![Pearson Installation View Of South Gallery 2005 C]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Bruce Pearson Bruce Pearson, 2005 installation view ![Pearson North Gallery Installation View 2 2009]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Bruce Pearson Bruce Pearson, 2009 installation view ![Bpearson 106]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Bruce Pearson Free Getaways, 2013 installation view ![Pearson Free Getaways 2013 Install View Of South Gallery D]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Bruce Pearson Free Getaways, 2013 installation view ![Pearson Installation View Of South Gallery 2005 C](/assets/exhibition_images/Pearson-Installation-View-of-South-Gallery-2005_C.JPG) ![Pearson North Gallery Installation View 2 2009](/assets/exhibition_images/Pearson-North-Gallery-Installation-view-2-2009.jpg) ![Bpearson 106](/assets/exhibition_images/BPearson_106.JPG) ![Pearson Free Getaways 2013 Install View Of South Gallery D](/assets/exhibition_images/Pearson-Free-Getaways-2013-Install-view-of-South-Gallery-D.JPG) ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) ![](/src/images/close_btn.svg) ![Pearson Installation View Of South Gallery 2005 C]() ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) Bruce Pearson Bruce Pearson, 2005 installation view ![Pearson North Gallery Installation View 2 2009]() ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) Bruce Pearson Bruce Pearson, 2009 installation view ![Bpearson 106]() ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) Bruce Pearson Free Getaways, 2013 installation view ![Pearson Free Getaways 2013 Install View Of South Gallery D]() ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) Bruce Pearson Free Getaways, 2013 installation view Ronald Feldman Gallery has been at the frontier of contemporary art since 1971. 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