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Signe Pierce

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Signe Pierce
NationalityAmerican
EducationSchool of Visual Arts
Notable workamericanreflexxx.com
Websitesignepierce.tumblr.com

Signe Pierce is an American artist who has worked in performance, photography, video and digital art. Her works, which "span photography, performance, and installation",[1] have been shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, at the Museum of Modern Art[2] and the New Museum in New York, and at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris.[3]

Pierce has a BFA in photography from the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan.[4]

In 2013, she performed in a short film, American Reflexxx, shot by her girlfriend Alli Coates.[5] It shows Pierce, in a short dress and a mirror-finish mask, moving through the streets of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, where she is derided and then attacked.[6][7][8][9] It was shown at "Bushwick Gone Basel", an event in a bar in Miami Beach during Art Basel Miami in 2013,[10] and at the BHFQU Brucennial in 2014.[11] It has been watched more than 1.7 million times on YouTube.[12] Rhizome called it "a brave work that construes many related topics within current cyberfeminist discourses",[13] while Art F City said it was "terrifying, surreal—and true."[10]

Pierce's work draws upon exaggerated hyperfeminine aesthetics, such as Barbie accessories [14] and pink and purple neon lights.[1] She has said she identifies as a feminist but has "been thinking about the binary aspects of the term 'feminist' and how we can move past gendered terms in general."[15]

Pierce records music under the name Big Sister and collaborated on several tracks with Sophie before the producer's death in 2021. One of these, "Do U Wanna Be Alive," was later released on Sophie's posthumous album.[16]

Pierce's work has also been shown at the Castor Gallery's SATELLITE Art Show (2016),[17] the Nathalie Halgand Galerie in Vienna (2017),[18] and the Annka Kultys Gallery in London (2018 & 2019).[19] In 2020, Pierce's work was one of 35 artists included in "Time for Outrage!" at the Kunstpalast Düsseldorf.[20]

Notes

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  1. ^ a b Buffenstein, Alyssa (22 November 2016). "10 Young Female Artists' Perspectives on Femininity Today". Artnet News. Archived from the original on 11 August 2022. Retrieved 28 November 2022.
  2. ^ "The Eyeslicer Presents". The Museum of Modern Art. 17 February 2019. Archived from the original on 17 May 2022. Retrieved 4 September 2020.
  3. ^ Fraschini, Gaia (16 October 2015). "What's Real ? Signe Pierce". Vogue Italia (in Italian). Archived from the original on 23 June 2017. Retrieved 28 November 2022.
  4. ^ "Exhibition - Presented by BFA Photography and Video - Photoville". School of Visual Arts. September 2015. Archived from the original on 5 April 2022. Retrieved 28 November 2022.
  5. ^ "Inside the Hot Pink Barbie Bungalow of Artists, 'Cyberfeminists' and Real-Life Couple Signe Pierce and Alli Coates". Paper Magazine. 21 April 2015. Archived from the original on 30 November 2021.
  6. ^ Chiaverina, John (4 May 2015). "'We Didn't Set Out to Make a Piece About Dehumanization, Mob Mentality, or Violence': Alli Coates and Signe Pierce Talk 'AMERICAN REFLEXXX'". ARTnews. Archived from the original on 28 January 2022. Retrieved 28 November 2022.
  7. ^ Leifheit, Matthew (23 April 2015). "Watch Transphobia Fuel an Angry, Violent Mob in Myrtle Beach". Vice. Archived from the original on 21 June 2022. Retrieved 28 November 2022.
  8. ^ Valentine, Ben. "Masking Against The Neoliberal Gaze". Open Space: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Archived from the original on 16 July 2021. Retrieved 28 November 2022.
  9. ^ Manders, Hayden (24 April 2015). "American Reflexxx Video - Signe Pierce Alli Coates". Nylon. Archived from the original on 24 September 2021. Retrieved 28 November 2022.
  10. ^ a b Leifheit, Matthew; Farley, Michael (10 December 2013). "One More Thing About Miami: Bushwick Goes Basel". Art F City. Archived from the original on 21 January 2022. Retrieved 28 November 2022.
  11. ^ Miller, M. H. (7 March 2014). "Ladies' Night: On the BHFQU's Record-Breaking Last Brucennial". The Observer. Archived from the original on 28 May 2022. Retrieved 28 November 2022.
  12. ^ "American Reflexxx". YouTube. 7 April 2015.
  13. ^ Avedisian, Alexis Anais (19 August 2015). "Interview: American Reflexxx". Rhizome. Archived from the original on 24 October 2020. Retrieved 28 November 2022.
  14. ^ Gamble, Ione (9 June 2017). "Immerse yourself in Signe Pierce's neon hyperreality". Dazed Digital. Retrieved 27 September 2024.
  15. ^ Diekoff, Gabrielle (10 August 2016). "Signe Pierce is the Fresh Face of the Cyberfeminist Art Scene: BUST Interview". Bust. Archived from the original on 25 May 2022. Retrieved 28 November 2022.
  16. ^ "Signe Pierce". YouTube. Retrieved 27 September 2024.
  17. ^ Uszerowicz, Monica (5 December 2016). "The Most Uncanny Installations at Miami Art Week". Vice. Archived from the original on 3 November 2022. Retrieved 28 November 2022.
  18. ^ Moravec, Lisa (23 March 2017). "Virtual Normality - Signe Pierce at Galerie Nathalie Halgand". Widewalls. Archived from the original on 15 August 2020. Retrieved 28 November 2022.
  19. ^ "Signe Pierce". Annka Kultys Gallery. 29 June 2018. Archived from the original on 19 October 2022. Retrieved 28 November 2022.
  20. ^ Beckonert, Matthias (29 October 2020). "'Time for Outrage!': art for challenging times". Deutsche Welle. Archived from the original on 24 February 2022. Retrieved 28 November 2022.


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