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Jack Pierson

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Jack Pierson: Tomorrow's Man 6

BYWATER BROS. EDITIONS
Edited by Roger Bywater, Jack Pierson. Contributions by Matthew Bede Murphy, Michael Bilsborough, Agustin Bruno, Jeremy Deprez, Eliza Douglas, et al.

The latest edition of the photographer’s playful artist’s book series, featuring works by Agustin Bruno, Mark Flood, Kembra Pfahler and more

Pbk, 7.5 x 10 in. / 164 pgs. | 2/21/2023 | Out of stock
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Jack Pierson: Less and more

REGEN PROJECTS/DOPE PRESS
Text by Evan Moffitt, Andy Campbell, Bruce Benderson.

A concise introduction to Pierson’s photographs, collages, word sculptures and more across four decades

Hbk, 8.25 x 10.5 in. / 144 pgs / 88 color / 4 bw. | 11/29/2022 | In stock
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Jack Pierson: New Pieces

HASSLA
Text by Bonnie Morrison.

Assemblage under quarantine: new works from the celebrated Boston School photographer and artist

Pbk, 9 x 12 in. / 48 pgs / 21 color. | 11/2/2021 | In stock
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Jack Pierson: Tomorrow's Man 5

BYWATER BROS. EDITIONS
Text by Dietmar Busse, David Carrino, Jeff Davis, David Dupuis, Jack Pierson, Clement Schneider, Janet Stein, Paula Stuttman, Richard Tinkler, Jordan Wolfson.

The latest edition of Jack Pierson's photobook-cum-artist's book featuring work from some of Pierson's favorite contemporary artists

Pbk, 7.25 x 10 in. / 128 pgs / 128 color. | 5/5/2020 | In stock
$39.95


Jack Pierson: The Hungry Years

DAMIANI
Introduction by Eileen Myles.

Special edition, 8 x 9.5 in. / 104 pgs / 45 color. | 12/26/2017 | Out of stock
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Jack Pierson: Tomorrow's Man 4

BYWATER BROS. EDITIONS
Edited by Roger Bywater, Jack Pierson.

Pbk, 7.25 x 10 in. / 104 pgs / 104 color. | 2/27/2018 | In stock
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Jack Pierson: The Hungry Years

DAMIANI
Introduction by Eileen Myles. Foreword by Stephen Shore.

The ’80s photographs of Boston School veteran Jack Pierson are at once melancholy and joyous, erotic and slyly witty

Hbk, 8 x 9.5 in. / 104 pgs / illustrated throughout. | 11/21/2017 | In stock
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Jack Pierson: onthisisland

CHEIM & READ
Text by Jan Avgikos.

Hbk, 8.5 x 10.75 in. / 254 pgs / 198 color / 1 bw. | 1/26/2016 | In stock
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Jack Pierson: Every Single One of Them

TWIN PALMS PUBLISHERS

Hbk, 11 x 14 in. / 320 pgs / 280 color. | 4/1/2004 | In stock
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Jack Pierson: Night

KUKJE GALLERY
Text by Bruce Benderson.

Clth, 7.25 x 10.25 in. / 92 pgs / illustrated throughout. | 5/31/2011 | Not available
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Jack Pierson to launch 'The Hungry Years' October 12 at SVA

Dear Dave, SVA Theatre, Damiani and ARTBOOK | D.A.P. invite you to celebrate the publication of 'Jack Pierson: The Hungry Years' with a conversation between Pierson and Steel Stillman on Thursday, October 12, at 7PM. Book signing to follow.
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Jack Pierson: Tomorrow's Man 6Jack Pierson: Tomorrow's Man 6

Published by Bywater bros. Editions.
Edited by Roger Bywater, Jack Pierson. Contributions by Matthew Bede Murphy, Michael Bilsborough, Agustin Bruno, Jeremy Deprez, Eliza Douglas, et al.

The sixth edition in American photographer Jack Pierson’s (born 1960) celebrated artist’s book series, Tomorrow’s Man—titled after the infamous bodybuilding series of the 1950s and '60s—features work from some of Pierson’s favorite contemporary artists, both established and emerging. As in the previous editions, the book comes in four different covers.
This installment showcases a diverse collection of work, such as Cameron Jamie’s ceramics, Clément PJ Schneider’s nude studies and Danny McDonald’s pop-inspired sculptures, alongside images from Matthew Bede Murphy, Michael Bilsborough, Agustin Bruno, Jeremy Deprez, Eliza Douglas, Robert Escalera, Mark Flood, Quinn Gorbutt, Mended Veil, Nathan Morgan, Nehama, Kembra Pfahler and Niv Shank. Rounding out this volume are Pierson’s own images and assorted ephemera as well as a screenplay by Chico Kramer.



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Catalog: SPRING 2023 p. 91   

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Jack Pierson: Less and moreJack Pierson: Less and more

Published by Regen Projects/DoPe Press.
Text by Evan Moffitt, Andy Campbell, Bruce Benderson.

This volume celebrates and documents the career of pioneering New York–based artist Jack Pierson (born 1960). Published on the occasion of Pierson’s tenth solo presentation with Regen Projects, Los Angeles, this full-color publication illustrates works produced over 35 years of the artist’s multidisciplinary practice. The publication follows the design of the exhibition, creating a personal sojourn through the artist’s career. Featuring a new contribution by Evan Moffitt that surveys the artist’s body of work in relation to queer cultural zeitgeists of the 1990s, a conversation between the artist and Andy Campbell, and an essay by Bruce Benderson, Less and more shines new light on Pierson’s oeuvre.



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Regen Projects/DoPe Press

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Hardcover, 8.25 x 10.5 in. / 144 pgs / 88 color / 4 bw.

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Jack Pierson: New PiecesJack Pierson: New Pieces

Published by Hassla.
Text by Bonnie Morrison.

Jack Pierson’s (born 1960) latest book, New Pieces, features new assemblage works that the artist started making during quarantine in his Ridgewood, Queens, studio. Assemblage has long played a role in Pierson’s career, from his early verité installation pieces to his iconic “word pieces.” These new works consist mainly of items found in and around his studio building, which were then pinned directly to the wall.

As Bonnie Morrison writes, “These are things that Pierson has accumulated as well as the things that have no doubt accumulated around him. To be fabricated in the year everything took on different meaning is also to take every fabricated thing’s meaning different(ly).”



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Catalog: SPRING 2022 p. 29   

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Jack Pierson: Tomorrow's Man 5Jack Pierson: Tomorrow's Man 5

Published by Bywater bros. Editions.
Text by Dietmar Busse, David Carrino, Jeff Davis, David Dupuis, Jack Pierson, Clement Schneider, Janet Stein, Paula Stuttman, Richard Tinkler, Jordan Wolfson.

The fifth volume in Jack Pierson’s celebrated Tomorrow’s Man artist’s book series mixes imagery from all spectrums of the visual landscape into a single meditation on the world around us.

Combining archival material together with contributions by emerging and established artists, Tomorrow's Man 5 continues on where the earlier volumes left off. In this edition, the diverse body of art includes Dietmar Busse's enigmatic, almost occult drawings on photography, David Dupuis' delicate, colorful abstractions and Richard Tinkler's bright geometric abstractions, as well as work by Janet Stein, David Carrino, Jeff Davis, Clement Schneider, Paul Stuttman and Jordan Wolfson (now infamous for his shocking work at the 2017 Whitney Biennial Real Violence) is included alongside Pierson's own images.



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Bywater bros. Editions

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Paperback, 7.25 x 10 in. / 128 pgs / 128 color.

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Catalog: SPRING 2020 p. 102   

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Jack Pierson: Tomorrow's Man 4Jack Pierson: Tomorrow's Man 4

Published by Bywater Bros. Editions.
Edited by Roger Bywater, Jack Pierson.

The fourth volume in Jack Pierson’s (born 1960) celebrated Tomorrow’s Man artist’s-book series mixes imagery from all spectrums of the visual landscape into a single meditation on the world around us. Combining archival material with contributions by emerging and established artists, Tomorrow’s Man 4 continues on where the earlier volumes left off. This installment showcases historical pen and ink sketches by John Tottenham, hummingbird portraits by Brian Calvin, glazed ceramic constructions by Liz Larner and deadpan street shots by Trevor Hernandez (better known to many by his Instagram handle Gang Culture), plus contributions by Cali Dewitt, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Lily Stockman, Richard Tinkler and Evan Whale.



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Bywater Bros. Editions

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Paperback, 7.25 x 10 in. / 104 pgs / 104 color.

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Catalog: SPRING 2018 p. 90   

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Jack Pierson: The Hungry YearsJack Pierson: The Hungry Years

Published by Damiani.
Introduction by Eileen Myles. Foreword by Stephen Shore.

The Hungry Years collects the early photographs of Jack Pierson, taken throughout the 1980s—photographs that have increasingly captured the attention of the art world since they were first editioned in 1990.

Informed in part by his artistic emergence in the era of AIDS, Pierson’s work is moored by melancholy and introspection, yet his images are often buoyed by a celebratory aura of homoeroticism, seduction and glamour. Sometimes infused with a sly sense of humor, Pierson’s work is inherently autobiographical; often using his friends as his models and referencing traditional Americana motifs, his bright yet distanced imagery reveals the undercurrents of the uncanny in the quotidian.

Fueled by the poignancy of emotional experience and by the sensations of memory, obsession and absence, Pierson’s subject is ultimately, as he states, “hope.”

For more than two decades, New York–based artist Jack Pierson (born 1960) has been using the visual languages of photography, painting, sculpture and drawing to examine intimate and emotional aspects of everyday life. Gaining recognition alongside a group of photographers known as the Boston School, Pierson explores the cultural construction of identity, including how we see and how others see us. Pierson has had numerous recent solo exhibitions and his work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, among other museums worldwide.



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Damiani

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Hardcover, 8 x 9.5 in. / 104 pgs / illustrated throughout.

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Catalog: FALL 2017 p. 49   

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Jack Pierson: The Hungry YearsJack Pierson: The Hungry Years

Limited Edition

Published by Damiani.
Introduction by Eileen Myles.

Published in a limited edition of 30 copies, this deluxe publication includes a signed and numbered print of Pierson’s “Pink Road.”

The Hungry Years collects the early photographs of Jack Pierson, taken throughout the 1980s.



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Damiani

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Special edition, 8 x 9.5 in. / 104 pgs / 45 color.

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Catalog: SPRING 2018 p. 92   

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Jack Pierson: Tomorrow's Man 3Jack Pierson: Tomorrow's Man 3

Published by Bywater Bros. Editions.
Edited by Jack Pierson, Roger Bywater. Text by Veralyn Behenna.

This book is the third volume in Jack Pierson’s (born 1960) Tomorrow’s Man series, in which the artist has assembled an art-fueled creative collaboration that harkens back to the 13 volumes of The Yellow Book published between 1894 and 1897. Whereas the first two volumes implied an increasing density of layered imagery and included over 25 artists, Tomorrow’s Man 3 foregrounds the work of just four artists. Featured here amid erotic images of male nudes are Richard Tinkler’s delicate geometric abstractions, working in concert with Pierson’s recent series of figure studies; activist text works by Peter Fend that demand environmental justice; and a short story by Veralyn Behenna entitled “The Flavor of Your Wish,” in which an expatriate woman contemplates masculine beauty in a Greek taverna. This is the first time Tomorrow’s Man has included previously unpublished work by Pierson. The book is available in four different covers.

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Bywater Bros. Editions

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Paperback, 7.5 x 10 in. / 120 pgs / illustrated throughout.

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Catalog: SPRING 2016 p. 103   

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Jack Pierson: onthisislandJack Pierson: onthisisland

Published by Cheim & Read.
Text by Jan Avgikos.

onthisisland is the newest series by American artist Jack Pierson (born 1960), consisting of small watercolors, graphite works on paper and driftwood assemblages. Pierson applies the Surrealist technique of automatic drawing to paint, allowing his subconscious to guide his brush. Limited quantity available.

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Cheim & Read

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Hardcover, 8.5 x 10.75 in. / 254 pgs / 198 color / 1 bw.

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Catalog: SPRING 2016 p. 183   

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Jack Pierson: Tomorrow's Man 2Jack Pierson: Tomorrow's Man 2

Published by Bywater Bros. Editions.
Edited by Roger Bywater, Jack Pierson. Text by Veralyn Behenna.

The title of Jack Pierson's most recent print exploration comes from an infamous bodybuilding magazine from the 1950s and 60s. Appropriating both the title and its retro bodybuilding aesthetic, Pierson takes viewers on a dizzying visual journey encompassing a wide spectrum of cultural references. Combining archival material with contributions from artists, illustrators and one writer, Tomorrow's Man 2 is a psychedelic meditation on masculinity. Highlights include sci-fi-imbued illustrations from Mel Odom, surreal assemblages from Tibi Tibi Neuspiel and geometric abstractions from Richard Tinkler. Also included are works from Dennis Balk, David Carrino, Alejandro Cesarco, David Colman, Pat de Groot, Jeff Elrod, Alex Jovanovich, Elizabeth Kley, Paulo Montiero, Dan McCarthy, OM from India and Evan Whale. Pierson does away with the conventions of the photobook genre, arranging this scrapbook with his signature irreverence and curatorial quirk.

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Bywater Bros. Editions

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Paperback, 7.25 x 10 in. / 112 pgs / illustrated throughout.

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Catalog: FALL 2015 p. 112   

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Jack Pierson: Lynn Valley 9Jack Pierson: Lynn Valley 9

Tomorrow's Man

Published by Presentation House Gallery & Bywater Bros. Editions.
Edited by Jack Pierson, Roger Bywater. Text by Veralyn Behenna.

Tomorrow’s Man, Lynn Valley 9, combines familiar imagery from American photographer Jack Pierson’s (born 1960) vast archive--portraits, vintage Physique magazines, celebrity promo shots and oddball ephemera--with work from an eclectic range of contributors such as Andy Warhol, Mark Morrisroe, David Carrino, Florence Derive, Alex Jovanovich, Dan McCarthy, Ryan Sullivan, Evan Whale, Jeff Elrod, Hugo Guinness, Jimmy Paul, Channing Tatum, Richard Tinkler and others, as well as a short story by Veralyn Behenna entitled “The Lobster.” Utilizing an unconventional design layout in which imagery has been dropped in with a complete disregard for page breaks and centerfolds, this compendium quickly establishes itself as something other than a straightforward photo book: its scrapbook-style design and diverse imagery presents Pierson as an inventive, irreverent editor and bookmaker with a great eye for unexpected, fun juxtapositions.

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Presentation House Gallery & Bywater Bros. Editions

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Paperback, 6.5 x 10 in. / 84 pgs / 78 color / 32 duotone.

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Catalog: FALL 2014 p. 99   

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Jack Pierson: NightJack Pierson: Night

Published by Kukje Gallery.
Text by Bruce Benderson.

An ode to a bygone era, Jack Pierson: Night is a beautifully designed artist's book that counterposes the artist's signature use of found lettering with found publicity stills of Hollywood movie stars like Tony Curtis, Rock Hudson and Elizabeth Taylor. Pierson makes declarative but ambiguous statements such as "trust," "greed" and "cry," and in this volume, which is designed to evoke the scrapbook in which these headshots were found, his statements deliver an uneasy interpretation of glamour. Printed on heavy paper stock, and accompanying Pierson's 2010 exhibition at Kukje Gallery in Seoul, Night is further embellished with an essay by novelist and memoirist Bruce Benderson. Describing Pierson's conjunction of word and image, Benderson writes: "the mere linking of the two creates a signpost that that stands in a direct way for Pierson's ownership of it... but in this case, the sign says, 'Private property: Come and See.'"

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Kukje Gallery

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Clth, 7.25 x 10.25 in. / 92 pgs / illustrated throughout.

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Catalog: SPRING 2011 p. 95   

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Jack PiersonJack Pierson

Published by Charta/Irish Museum of Modern Art.
Introduction by Jack Pierson. Text by Enrique Juncosa, Wayne Koestenbaum, Rachael Thomas, Richard D. Marshall.

This publication--at once a daybook, a survey (it accompanies the artist's first exhibition in Ireland) and an artist's book--collects eight previous publications on the American artist Jack Pierson, several of which are long out of print. Pierson was among the first photographers to print pages with the imagery bleeding out of its usual white frame, and to deploy a bleached-out and overexposed style of photography that connotes a longing for a recent but already dimming past, littered with the props and players of yesterday's parties. By small increments, an emotional tone builds that is both warmly homoerotic and unabashedly wistful. All of these books were designed by the artist and are here reproduced in their original size and in chronological order.
Jack Pierson makes photographs, word sculptures, installations, drawings and artist's books that excavate the emotional undercurrents of everyday life, from the intimacy of romantic attachment to the remote idolizing of the famous. Pierson has often engaged celebrity culture, refusing ironic treatment of the subject to instead confess, or seem to confess, his own attraction to the fantasy life depicted in his artworks. He has had recent solo exhibitions at Cheim & Read, New York; Alison Jacques Gallery, London and Regen Projects, Los Angeles. His work is held in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

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Charta/Irish Museum of Modern Art

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Paperback, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 436 pgs / 384 color / 21 bw.

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Catalog: FALL 2008 p. 95   

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Jack Pierson: Every Single One of ThemJack Pierson: Every Single One of Them

Published by Twin Palms Publishers.

“In the interstices between film and photography, ad stereotypes and clichés of a Californian paradise, Jack Pierson (born 1960) produces pictures that are deliberately sensual and sentimental. Through a subtle hybridization of genres they raise the central question of autobiographical sincerity as the work’s theme and site. By arresting intimate moments, they compose a familiar, private world, happy and nostalgic. By disclosing (or pretending to disclose) something of the artist, they acquire a natural quality that turns them into secret confessions. We are simultaneously in the artist’s studio and in the middle of his life, and, I’d be tempted to add, in the idealizing and loving grace of his gaze.” —Henry-Claude Cousseau



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Twin Palms Publishers

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Hardcover, 11 x 14 in. / 320 pgs / 280 color.

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