“The greater danger for most of us is not in setting our aim too high and falling short, but in setting our aim too short and achieving our mark.”
— Michelangelo
About The Artist
Alan Pierce views his artworks as a vehicle and tool to communicate human truths and provoke socially relevant, ever-shifting questions. The artists' work reflects a deep desire to explore and highlight the eternal nature of the human condition and encourage to look beyond the surface for deeper insights into self-awareness through personal symbolism, questions and messages that traverse cultural, racial, national, political boundaries. His work is created as a catalyst to unite people through shared experience.
A firm believer in an ever dissected, ever improving status quo, he strives to shatter self-imposed limitations with each new work and challenge the boundaries of his own artistic understanding and growth. Every piece is created to open a doorway to the viewer to question and ponder their own current life-map, thoughts and world views.
Testimonials
“Every brush stroke and figurative concept he pours into his painting style, Shape Construction, expresses the true authenticity and originality that forms his artistic character.”
— Nyoman Nuarta
“Alan renders form in terms of rich, plump, thick, ample, flesh-like clusters mainly in oil paint on canvas. The lives of these objects; often people (or souls) start on Alan’s palate knife, then slide off into near theatrical settings and situations onto canvases permeated by colored light, such as rich shades of gold, earthy browns and oranges, fresh greens and beiges, or pale grays and profoundly vulnerable flesh tones. Here they inwardly palpitate, live, breathe and seem about to morph into altered states and conditions. ”
— Bruce Sherratt
“Alan Pierce utilizes a sculptural style and a palette knife to build up his paint layer by layer, complimented with the use of brush and rag. Designing and creating harmonious blending between two dimensional paintings techniques and textural three dimensional elements is a core element of all his oil works. His style, called Shape Construction is built around a constant probing and searching for natural rhythms and interlocking patterns that build subconscious unity within his works. ”
— Callum Fraser
“True mastery can only occur when the highest levels of creativity and technique equal each other, in perfect balance.”
