Los Angeles-based artist Anthony Pearson (b. 1969; Los Angeles, CA) is well-known for his highly formalized and sensitive use of both process and materials. By experimenting with the formal limits of the photography, where Pearson's practice originated, he found a visual vocabulary rooted in abstraction that explores the balances between positive and negative, lightness and darkness. He continues to investigate these dichotomies in media such as plaster, bronze, and clay. His use of these materials elevates their inherent qualities and yields understated poetic experiences within them.
Pearson has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, the Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, MO, and Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, MN, among numerous others. Group exhibitions include Tantric drawings: sites of transformation, Drawing Room, London, UK, and Peninsula Arts, Plymouth University, Plymouth, UK; L.A. Exuberance: New Gifts by Artists, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; The Sun Placed in the Abyss, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH; Variations: Conversations in and Around Abstract Paintings, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; second nature: abstract photography then and now, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA; The Anxiety of Photography, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO; and Arthouse at the Jones Center, Austin, TX. Pearson lives and works in Los Angeles.