{"id":4225,"date":"2012-11-02T13:31:42","date_gmt":"2012-11-02T13:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artcorner.com\/?p=4225"},"modified":"2024-12-19T07:58:40","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T12:58:40","slug":"jeffrey-pierson-named-artist-becomes-november-artist-of-the-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.overstockart.com\/blog\/jeffrey-pierson-named-artist-becomes-november-artist-of-the-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeffrey Pierson Named Artist Become\u2019s November Artist of the Month"},"content":{"rendered":"

Artist Become<\/a> named Jeffrey F. Pierson<\/a> November Artist of the Month. Pierson, a Wichita, Kansas-based artist, is one of the founding members of the online art community. <\/p>\n

\"Jeffrey<\/a>Pierson, who graduated Magna Cum Laude from Wichita State University and the University of South Dakota, obtaining his BFA and MFA in printmaking, emerged as an artist at a young age. He began creating his art when he felt compelled to record the things he was observing and feeling and to try to make his thoughts more concrete. In his youth Pierson was inspired by primitive art, Aboriginal art, early Christian and Byzantine art, and comic books.<\/p>\n

In recent years Pierson\u2019s art studies have focused on the idea of the corrosive effect of time on memory. \u201cMy work reflects my dreams, memories, and the world as I perceive it,\u201d explained Pierson. \u201cIt is my great hope and intention that my imagery be a catalyst, sparking the synapses in an unlit mind. Breaking the bonds of mental lethargy and inspiring the viewer to see, think and feel.\u201d<\/p>\n

The concept of impermanence has long been a part of Pierson\u2019s imagery and the erosion of memory has long infected his verse. His ongoing studies and explorations have continuously led him back – first to depictions of family and reminders of the past and then to the juxtaposition of the figure with more nonobjective elements.
\n\u201cI attempt to depict fractured moments that relate to how I saw and how I know see society, family, and self,\u201d said Pierson. \u201cThese images are about finding a balance between innocence and knowledge, they are observations made by eyes intent on seeing the true nature of things, and they are as well documents of a journey through memory and impermanence.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pierson exhibits more than 50 works of art in his personal gallery<\/a> on Artist Become. Those works of art include:<\/p>\n