--- title: "200 - New Paintings, Pearson 4/10-5/8 1999" date: 2017-08-21T18:45:00-04:00 author: Graham Murray canonical_url: "https://feldmangallery.com/exhibition/200-new-paintings-pearson-4-10-5-8-1999" section: Exhibition --- [![Ronald Feldman Gallery logo](/src/images/rff_logo.svg)](/) ![](/src/images/search.svg) View Artists Search Artists [Exhibitions](/feature_exhibitions) [Past Exhibitions](/past_exhibitions/) [Artists](/artist_overview) [News & Press](/news_overview) [Inventory](https://www.artsy.net/ronald-feldman-gallery/artists) [Publications](/feature_publications) [Gallery Info](/about) [Contact](/contact) [![Facebook](/src/images/fb.svg)](https://www.facebook.com/RonaldFeldmanGallery/) [![Instagram](/src/images/ig.svg)](https://www.instagram.com/feldmangallery/) [![Twitter](/src/images/tw.svg)](https://twitter.com/feldmangallery?lang=en) [Artsy](https://www.artsy.net/ronald-feldman-gallery) [Artnet](http://www.artnet.com/galleries/ronald-feldman-fine-arts/) 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](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/margaret-harrison) [ Shih Chieh Huang ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/shih-chieh-huang) J [ Simone Jones ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/simone-jones) K [ Brian Knep ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/brian-knep) [ Komar & Melamid ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/komar-melamid) [ Peggy Jarrell Kaplan ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/peggy-jarrell-kaplan) [ Vitaly Komar ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/vitaly-komar) L [ Kim Levin ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/kim-levin-) M [ McCarren/Fine ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/mccarren-fine) O [ Pepón Osorio ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/pep%C3%B3n-osorio) [ The Oakes Twins ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/the-oakes-twins) P [ Bruce Pearson ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/bruce-pearson) [ Panamarenko ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/panamarenko) R [ Fredric Riskin 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](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/gil-yefman) [ ![Ronald Feldman Gallery logo](/src/images/rff_logo.svg) ](/) Bruce Pearson: New Paintings [Bruce Pearson](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/bruce-pearson) Apr 9 – May 7, 1999 ![Pearson Elated Tensions Etc 1996](/assets/hero_images/_1600x800_crop_top-center_75_none/6096/Pearson-Elated-Tensions-etc-1996.jpg) Bruce Pearson Elated Tensions etc., 1996 Description Bruce Pearson will exhibit new paintings in his first one-person exhibition at the Feldman Gallery. The paintings, wall reliefs elaborately constructed from Styrofoam, are based on texts appropriated from popular culture, which are often transformed to the point of indecipherability and abstraction. The paintings provide a sensorial rich overload of color, pattern, and texture. An artist committed to visual pleasure and the seduction of painting, whose tone alternates between the playful and the serious, Pearson investigates the relationship of image, word, and meaning. The exhibition will also include gouache drawings, autonomous artworks that serve as templates for the three- dimensional paintings whose construction is based on the alternation of negative/positive space. [ ![](/src/images/down-arrow.svg) View Press Release ](https://feldmangallery.com/assets/pdfs/Pearson-New-Paintings.pdf) [ ![](/src/images/redirect.svg) View Artist ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/bruce-pearson) ![Pearson Another Nail In The Coffin Of Objectivity 1997 1998](/assets/exhibition_images/Pearson-Another-Nail-in-the-Coffin-of-Objectivity-1997-1998.JPG) Bruce Pearson Another Nail in the Coffin of Objectivity, 1997-1998 View Gallery ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/close_btn.svg) ![Pearson Another Nail In The Coffin Of Objectivity 1997 1998]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Bruce Pearson Another Nail in the Coffin of Objectivity, 1997-1998 ![Pearson Die Of Pleasure 1996]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Bruce Pearson Die of Pleasure, 1996 ![Pearson Die Of Pleasure 1998 Black]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Bruce Perason Die of pleasure, 1998 ![Pearson Love Doesnt Always Have To Go Wrong Etc 1997]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Bruce Pearson Something that Seems to Symbolize In Quotes Reality, 1997-98 ![Pearson Violence Profanity Supernatural Strangeness And Graphically Rendered Sexual Situations 1997 Gouache]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Bruce Pearson Violence, Profanity, Supernatural Strangeness and Graphically Rendered Sexual Situations, 1997 ![Pearson Violence Profanity Supernatural Strangeness And Graphically Rendered Sexual Situations 1997]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Bruce Pearson Violence, Profanity, Supernatural Strangeness and Graphically Rendered Sexual Situations, 1997 ![Pearson No No No 1998 Oil And Acrylic]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Bruce Pearson No No No..., 1998 ![Pearson Install View Of North Gallery D](/assets/exhibition_images/Pearson-Install-view-of-North-Gallery-D.JPG) New Paintings, 1999 View Gallery ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/close_btn.svg) ![Pearson Install View Of North Gallery D]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) New Paintings, 1999 installation view ![Pearson Install View Of North Gallery E]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) New Paintings, 1999 installation view ![Pearson Install View Of South Gallery A]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) New Paintings, 1999 installation view ![Pearson Install View Of South Gallery B]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) New Paintings, 1999 installation view ![Pearson Install View Of South Gallery C]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) New Paintings, 1999 installation view ![Pearson Install View Of North Gallery D](/assets/exhibition_images/Pearson-Install-view-of-North-Gallery-D.JPG) ![Pearson Install View Of North Gallery E](/assets/exhibition_images/Pearson/1999-New-Paintings/Pearson-Install-view-of-North-Gallery-E.JPG) ![Pearson Install View Of South Gallery A](/assets/exhibition_images/Pearson/1999-New-Paintings/Pearson-Install-view-of-South-Gallery-A.JPG) ![Pearson Install View Of South Gallery B](/assets/exhibition_images/Pearson/1999-New-Paintings/Pearson-Install-view-of-South-Gallery-B.JPG) ![Pearson Install View Of South Gallery C](/assets/exhibition_images/Pearson/1999-New-Paintings/Pearson-Install-view-of-South-Gallery-C.JPG) ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) ![](/src/images/close_btn.svg) ![Pearson Install View Of North Gallery D]() ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) New Paintings, 1999 installation view ![Pearson Install View Of North Gallery E]() ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) New Paintings, 1999 installation view ![Pearson Install View Of South Gallery A]() ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) New Paintings, 1999 installation view ![Pearson Install View Of South Gallery B]() ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) New Paintings, 1999 installation view ![Pearson Install View Of South Gallery C]() ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) New Paintings, 1999 installation view Ronald Feldman Gallery has been at the frontier of contemporary art since 1971. 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