--- title: 342.5_Pearson_Shadow Language date: 2019-03-12T15:04:00-04:00 author: Cat Zhou canonical_url: "https://feldmangallery.com/exhibition/342.5-pearson-shadow-language" 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/) ![](/src/images/close_btn.svg) 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](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/gil-yefman) [ ![Ronald Feldman Gallery logo](/src/images/rff_logo.svg) ](/) Shadow Language [Bruce Pearson](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/bruce-pearson) Apr 26 – Jun 7, 2019 ![Pearson Erase Return2018 1](/assets/hero_images/_1600x800_crop_top-center_75_none/13324/Pearson-Erase-Return2018_1.jpg) Bruce Pearson Erase Return, 2018 detail Description Bruce Pearson will exhibit new work from 2017 - 2019 comprising paintings, drawings, and photographs in his seventh solo exhibition at the Feldman Gallery. The exhibition features large-scale paintings that are wall reliefs elaborately constructed from Styrofoam in which text, transformed to the point of near indecipherability and abstraction, is an element of the composition and also the title of each work. The paintings are fields of sensuous color and intricately creviced surfaces producing optical effects – a sensorial rich overload of color, pattern, and texture. For each of his ongoing series, Pearson establishes systems of varying parameters, with their own rules and references, in order to investigate the relationship of image, word, and meaning. [ ![](/src/images/down-arrow.svg) View Press Release ](https://feldmangallery.com/assets/pdfs/artistCV/Bruce-Pearson-Shadow-Language-2019-Press-Release_digital.pdf) [ ![](/src/images/redirect.svg) View Artist ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/bruce-pearson) ![Pearson Not To Interupt You 2018 White For Web](/assets/exhibition_images/Pearson-Not-To-Interupt-You-2018-white-for-web.JPG) Bruce Pearson Not To Interrupt Your Beautiful Moment, 2018 View Gallery ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/close_btn.svg) ![Pearson Not To Interupt You 2018 White For Web]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Bruce Pearson Not To Interrupt Your Beautiful Moment, 2018 ![Pearson Loophole 2018 No White]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Bruce Pearson Loophole, 2018 ![Pearson Erase Return2018 No White]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Bruce Pearson Erase Return, 2018 ![Dsc4921](/assets/exhibition_images/DSC4921.JPG) Shadow Language View Gallery ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/close_btn.svg) ![Dsc4921]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Shadow Language installation view ![Dsc4929]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Shadow Language, 2019 installation view ![Dsc4922]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Shadow Language, 2019 installation view ![Dsc4916]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Shadow Language, 2019 installation view ![Dsc4923]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Shadow Language, 2019 installation view ![Dsc4925]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Shadow Language, 2019 installation view ![Dsc4928]() ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ![](https://feldmangallery.com//src/images/arrow-right.svg) Shadow Language, 2019 installation view ![Dsc4921](/assets/exhibition_images/DSC4921.JPG) ![Dsc4929](/assets/exhibition_images/DSC4929.JPG) ![Dsc4922](/assets/exhibition_images/DSC4922.JPG) ![Dsc4916](/assets/exhibition_images/DSC4916.JPG) ![Dsc4923](/assets/exhibition_images/DSC4923.JPG) ![Dsc4925](/assets/exhibition_images/DSC4925.JPG) ![Dsc4928](/assets/exhibition_images/DSC4928.JPG) ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) ![](/src/images/close_btn.svg) ![Dsc4921]() ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) Shadow Language installation view ![Dsc4929]() ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) Shadow Language, 2019 installation view ![Dsc4922]() ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) Shadow Language, 2019 installation view ![Dsc4916]() ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) Shadow Language, 2019 installation view ![Dsc4923]() ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) Shadow Language, 2019 installation view ![Dsc4925]() ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) Shadow Language, 2019 installation view ![Dsc4928]() ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ![](/src/images/arrow-right.svg) Shadow Language, 2019 installation view Ronald Feldman Gallery has been at the frontier of contemporary art since 1971. 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