
Untitled (from 'I Gotta Go Now' Portfolio)
2013
This photogravure with drypoint and watercolor places the viewer inside the atmospheric world Jack Pierson has spent decades refining, one where longing, transience, and beauty exist in close proximity. Part of the artist's "I Gotta Go Now" portfolio from 2013, the work carries the wistful, cinematic quality that has come to define Pierson's practice across photography, sculpture, and works on paper. The combination of photogravure's soft, inky tonal depth with the delicate scoring of drypoint and the luminous warmth of watercolor produces an image that feels at once documentary and dreamlike, grounded in the physical world yet suffused with emotional distance. Pierson, who emerged from the Boston-based group of artists surrounding Nan Goldin and David Armstrong in the 1980s, has long been preoccupied with desire and impermanence, themes that permeate this intimate-scaled print. At 85.4 by 64.8 centimeters, the work commands presence without demanding spectacle, inviting sustained looking rather than immediate resolution. The portfolio format from which this piece originates reflects Pierson's interest in seriality and accumulation, the sense that meaning accrues across images rather than residing in any single moment. Bearing the artist's signature, this is a work with both personal and institutional provenance, having been offered through the Children's Museum of the Arts Benefit Auction, a context that underscores its place within a thoughtful and mission-driven collecting culture.
- Medium
- Photogravure with drypoint and watercolor
- Overall
- Signed
- Yes
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