Tierney Gearon
Biography
(American, b. 1963)
Photographing her children at play, as they discover of the world around them,
Tierney Gearon’s debut is an honest documentary of family life as it is. The artist’s intuitive understanding of composition, colour, and natural light, presents her work as photographs that could have come from any family album. Images that would later in life become evident in her understanding of herself. The series, shot as the artist’s returned to the United States, instantly received great acclaim in the artworld and beyond. Four photographs from
Mohawk, New York,
Palm Springs,
Utah - and one unknown location - give a look into Gearon’s break-through series that caused much debate.
Gearon’s photographs could have come from any family album and doesn’t require a subtitle or text to be understood. When asked, she often mentions that the pictures do not have a meaning and there are no hidden messages that need to be extracted and analysed. They are minimal. Each work is a glimpse into the life of Gearon and her two children, showing a journal of family life that are as candid and innocent as can be.
Entering the scene at ‘I Am A Camera’ at Saatchi Gallery in January 2001, and the solo show at Gagosian Gallery in New York the same year, Tierney Gearon’s early days in the art world could not have been more spectacular. In the two decades following the debut, her works have been widely exhibited and included the acclaimed New York solo shows: ‘The Mother Project’ (2006) at Yossi Milo and ‘Explosure’ (2009) at Phillips de Pury & Co. From the success of ‘The Mother Project’, the artist published her first book, titled ‘Daddy, where are you?’ (2007), a book set in and around her mother’s home in Georgia, and five years later she released the children’s book, ‘Alphabet Book’ (2013). Gearon lives and works on the West Coast in the Unites States.
Representing four works from Gearon’s break-through series,
Untitled (Mohawk, New York),
Untitled (Palm Springs),
Untitled (Utah) and
Untitled were released in 2001 in connection with the exhibition in London. The photographic editions were printed as Chromogenic prints in an exclusive collaboration between the artist and Eyestorm. Each edition of 100, of which only were 35 were printed, are signed and numbered on verso.