The Burrison Art Gallery 3611 Walnut Street


Benjamin Pierce
Still Life


February 27 - April 3, 2009


Contact Info

University Club at Penn
3611 Walnut Street, second floor
Philadelphia, PA 19104

tel 215-898-4618

ilenee@pobox.upenn.edu
www.business-services.upenn.edu/universityclub/burrison.shtml

gallery hours: Monday - Friday, 8 am - 6 pm; Saturday - Sunday, 7 am - 1 pm


About the Exhibition

Pierce’s recent work concentrates on the human body, often in abstracted or transmuted form. The images in the Still Life series use extremely soft focus to obscure superficial detail, bringing gesture and color to the fore and giving the print a surface quality reminiscent of expressionist painting. Beneath these surfaces float enigmatic feminine figures, neither convincingly artificial nor entirely real.


About the Gallery

The Burrison Gallery, which opened in 1978,  is committed mainly to showcasing the works of artists drawn from the University of Pennsylvania community at-large.  Exhibitions have been programmed regularly on a monthly basis. 


Image copyright © 2008 Burrison Art Gallery and Benjamin Pierce