Every single one of them

J. Pierson

In the interstices between film and photography, ad stereotypes and clichés of a Californian paradise, Jack Pierson produces pictures that are de-liberately sensual and sentimental. In the final analysis, what they raise through a subtle hybrid-ization of genres is 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 in the idealizing and loving grace of his gaze.