Jack Pierson

STUDIO VISIT

How Painter Anthony Cudahy Finds Intimacy In The Mundane

December 20, 2024

“I’m interested in there not being any censoring of what can exist in my painted world,” said the artist, whose solo exhibition is now on view at The Green Family Art Foundation.

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Photographer Chivas Clem Takes Jack Pierson Inside His Archive of Drifters

October 17, 2024

“Most of them are felons and don’t vote and have no relationship to politics,” the photographer said of the men featured in his new show at Dallas Contemporary, “Shirttail Kin.”

OPENING

Lucky DeBellevue Paints the Sexy, Tortured Worlds of Rainer Werner Fassbinder

May 13, 2024

“I didn’t want to shy away from sexuality,” says the downtown painter, who painted stills from a number of the German director’s films for his new solo exhibition.

NOSTALGIA

Photographer Jason Byron Gavann Takes Us Inside Boston’s Unsung Queer Scene

April 11, 2024

“All my friends were transforming themselves from boys to girls,” says the artist, whose photographs of 1970s Boston nightlife are on display at the Tufts University.

COLLECTOR

Photographer Jack Pierson Walks Us Through His Personal Art Collection

February 29, 2024

The artist, who shot our recent Bad Bunny cover, invited us to his home to get up close with his personal art collection, a dynamic blend of the blue-chip and the beatnik.

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The Artist Joe Mama-Nitzberg Is Putting His Private Universe on Display

September 9, 2021

“The best work of art is one that tricks you,” says the artist Joe Mama-Nitzberg on a recent Friday afternoon. He’s speaking generally, but these are words that the Catskill, New York-based artist lives by. The ‘trick’ at play in Mama-Nitzberg’s work is rooted in his mastery— and subversion— of semiotics. Messaging from the realms […]

Made to Stray: A Couple of Golden Boys in a Golden Hour Daydream

February 26, 2020

Speedos, leather, and spray bottles. Oh my.