Signe Pierce
| Signe Pierce | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Signe Kristine Pierce December 8, 1988 Tucson, Arizona |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | School of Visual Arts |
| Notable work |
americanreflexxx |
| Website |
signepierce |
Signe Pierce is an American multimedia artist and performer. Her work spans performance, photography, video art, art direction, GIFs, and web-based art. Her aesthetic frequently takes inspiration from femininity, excess, alterity, perversion, self-mediation and distortion.
Pierce rose to prominence with the 2014 short film, American Reflexxx, in collaboration with director Alli Coates.[1] The film shows Pierce, masked and portraying a "hyper-sexualized" persona, becoming an object of derision and then attacked.[2] It was made in Myrtle Beach in South Carolina. An earlier version of the work was first shown at "Bushwick Gone Basel" at Art Basel Miami in 2013.[3] The work has been shown in numerous galleries including the Palais de Tokyo in Paris[4] and the BHFQU Brucennial, which was "the largest art exhibition ever to feature only women."[5]
After its formal debut at BHFQU in 2014, the film has garnered over 1.5 million views on YouTube, and the work has been featured in Vice,[6] Rhizome,[7] ArtNews,[8] Open Space: SF MoMA,[9] and Paper Magazine.[10] Alexis Anais Avedisian for Rhizome commended the film for being "a brave work that construes many related topics within current cyberfeminist discourses,"[11] while Matthew Leifheit for Art F City postured it as "terrifying, surreal—and true."[12]
Born in Tucson, Arizona in 1988, Pierce grew up in Arizona, Encinitas, California and Frederick, Maryland. Pierce studied at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan, where she received a BFA in Photography with a focus on performance art in 2011.[13] During her time at the School of Visual Arts, Signe interned for Saturday Night Live and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Notes
- ↑ "AMERICAN REFLEXXX". Youtube.
- ↑ "'We Didn't Set Out to Make a Piece About Dehumanization, Mob Mentality, or Violence': Alli Coates and Signe Pierce Talk 'AMERICAN REFLEXXX'". ArtNews.
- ↑ ""One More Thing About Miami: Bushwick Goes Basel"". Art F City.
- ↑ ""What's Real ? Signe Pierce"". Vogue Italia.
- ↑ ""Ladies' Night: On the BHFQU's Record-Breaking Last Brucennial"". The Observer.
- ↑ ""Watch Transphobia Fuel an Angry, Violent Mob in Myrtle Beach"". Vice.
- ↑ ""Interview: American Reflexxx"". Rhizome.
- ↑ "'We Didn't Set Out to Make a Piece About Dehumanization, Mob Mentality, or Violence': Alli Coates and Signe Pierce Talk 'AMERICAN REFLEXXX'". ArtNews.
- ↑ ""Masking Against The Neoliberal Gaze"". Open Space: SF MoMA.
- ↑ ""Inside the Hot Pink Barbie Bungalow of Artists, 'Cyberfeminists' and Real-Life Couple Signe Pierce and Alli Coates"". Paper Magazine.
- ↑ ""Interview: American Reflexxx"". Rhizome.
- ↑ ""One More Thing About Miami: Bushwick Goes Basel"". Art F City.
- ↑ "School of Visual Arts, NYC".