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SOLI PIERCE

Cortlandt Manor NY UNITED STATES

I am an interdisciplinary artist whose practice explores light, time, and nature through a range of media. My work has been presented in solo exhibitions at BAU in Beacon, KinoSaito Arts Center in Verplank, ArtsWestchester Gallery in White Plains, and the Hammond Museum in North Salem, New York.

I have also exhibited in group shows at Garrison Art Center, Hudson Valley MoCA, A.I.R. Gallery, Atlantic Gallery, Woman’s Work Art, Super Secret Projects, Pelham Art Center, and other venues. In 2025, I was an artist-in-residence at KinoSaito in New York and Jentel in Wyoming, with an upcoming 2026 residency at Tongue River and a fall solo exhibition at the Hammond Museum. I have taught photography at NYU, and my work has appeared in The New York Times, The Village Voice, and Ars Electronica.

My creative practice explores the relationships between light, time, and nature. Working across different media allows me to consider how perception shifts through atmosphere, duration, movement, and material change.

I am interested in the ways natural forces can shape an image, object, or experience. Light is not only something I observe, but something I work with as a material. Time also plays an important role in my process, allowing subtle changes, transitions, and traces to become part of the work.

Through an interdisciplinary approach, I create work that responds to the natural world while also examining how we see, measure, and experience it. My process is attentive, experimental, and guided by the changing conditions around me.

ARTWORKS

Still Point (2024)

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stone
11H x 4W x 4D in (30 x 10 x 10 cm)
US $1500

“Still Point is a precise negotiation between weight and equilibrium, presenting a sphere poised
atop a tall vertical form. The base — textured, irregular, and visibly marked by process — reads as a fragment of something foundational, while the sphere above it appears resolved. Together, they construct a tension between instability and control, suggesting that balance is not inherent, but actively maintained.

The elevated sphere becomes a site of focus, an embodiment of presence that is neither fixed nor anchored, but contingent on its relationship to what supports it. The base, in turn, carries the history of labor, erosion, and formation, functioning as a structural language that makes the sphere’s position possible. Authorship here is not singular or isolated; it is distributed across the interaction of elements. The work proposes that what is seen is always in dialogue with what remains raw and materially grounded.

Rather than asserting monumentality, the sculpture operates through restraint and precision. It invites a reading of power as something held in tension, dependent on alignment and the capacity to remain upright within shifting conditions.”

Unearthed II (2025)

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cypress wood and stone
12H x 11W x 6D in (30.5 × 28 × 15 cm)
US $1400

“This work operates as a compact architecture of power — at once organic and constructed — where interiority is made visible through rupture and form. A cross-section of wood, marked by natural voids and irregular perforations, encircles a suspended, gold sphere. The gesture is both protective and exposing: the structure reads as a body, a system, a
language. Its openings function like points of transmission rather than absence. The sphere, materially distinct and luminous, suggests a concentrated center of agency or identity, held by a surrounding framework that bears the marks of time, erosion, and growth. The outer ring resists perfection; it is coded by lived experience, its irregularities forming a kind of visual syntax.

Leadership here is not asserted through dominance or monumentality, but through balance, tension, and persistence. The work proposes that power is not externalized, but held within systems that are porous, adaptive, and shaped over time. The piece collapses binaries between nature and intention, interior and exterior, strength and vulnerability. It invites viewers to consider how identity is constructed not in spite of these tensions, but through them, how presence is both supported and complicated by the structures that surround it.”

Finding Balance (2025)

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petrified wood, metal circle and stone
10H x 6W x 8D in (25 × 15 × 20 cm)
US $900

“Finding Balance distills structure to its most elemental forms: a ring, a sphere, and a grounded base. The circular frame — industrial, continuous, and self-contained — hovers just above a raw stone block, while a sphere rests at the threshold between interior and exterior. The composition suggests both a system and a breach: a defined perimeter that is neither fully enclosing nor entirely open.

The ring can be read as an organizing structure that implies order, repetition, and continuity. The sphere's placement is not centered, not contained, but instead presses against the boundary. This slight displacement becomes critical: it signals a refusal to be fully circumscribed by the systems that frame it. The base, visibly marked by time, anchors the work in the physical world, grounding the geometry above. Together, these elements construct a spatial metaphor for authorship as negotiation, between structure and agency, containment and movement. The sphere’s presence activates the ring, transforming it from a static form into a site of tension and possibility.

In this way, leadership is not presented as centrality or dominance, but as the capacity to exist at the edge of systems, to press against their limits while remaining in dynamic relation to them.”

EXHIBITIONS

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SOLI PIERCE

Cortlandt Manor NY UNITED STATES

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