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EDUCATION
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1984
+ University of Utah
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SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
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2006
+ The Mother Project, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, NY
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2003
+ The Family, Windsor, Vero Beach, FL
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2001
+ I am a Camera, Saatchi Gallery, London
+ Tierney Gearon - Photographs, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY
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SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
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2006
+ Allsop, Laura. "Female Trouble: Tierney Gearon." Art Review October 2006.
+ Hill, Logan. "New York Screen: Mother, May I Shoot You?" New York Magazine 1 May 2006.
+ Nelson, Karin. "Mommy Dearest." Blackbook October/November 2006.
+ "Tierney Gearon [Fall Preview]." New York Magazine 4-11 September 2006.
+ Welch, Will. "Fear and Loving." The Fader October/November 2006.
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2002
+ Phillips, Kathy. "Scent of a Woman." Vogue UK November 2002.
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2001
+ Cavendish, Lucy. "Private View." The Sunday Telegraph Magazine 14 January 2001.
+ Cork, Richard. "Intimate Disclosures." The London Times. 9 February 2001.
+ Cummings, Laura. "I am a Camera." The Observer 7 January 2001.
+ Darwent, Charles. "Anyone for Tennis?" Modern Painters Spring 2001.
+ Fallon, James. "Tierney's Tempest." W June 2001.
+ "Family Affair." Vanity Affair January 2001.
+ Giuliano, Charles. "Saatchi's Kids." NY Arts April 2001.
+ Jackson, Kevin. "Home is Where the Camera is." The Independent 22 January 2001.
+ "La belle et l'intim." French Numero February 2001.
+ O'Brien, Aoife. "A Life Through a Lens." The London Times 9 February 2001.
+ Rattray, Fiona. "Painting by Cameras." The Independent 7 January 2001.
+ "Tierney Gearon." Town and Country Magazine March 2001.
+ Toynbee, Polly. "For Shame!" Modern Painters Summer 2001.
+ Trevis, Di. "Working the Mask." Modern Painters Summer 2001.
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2000
+ "What They Were Thinking." The New York Times Magazine 4 June 2000.
+ Wood, Gaby. "What a Photograph..." The Observer 26 November 2000.
Daddy, Where Are You? collects more than 70 portraits o f this Los Angeles-based photographer's family. Set mainly in and around her mother's home in Georgia, where Gearon grew up, this series takes as its subject the interaction between the photographer, her children and her mother. These beautiful but strikingly raw photographs also document a story with a more expansive emotional force: the closeness and the profound distance between o ur loved o nes and us. It is this psychological tension, as well as her direct confrontation with o ne o f photography's enduring themes, that distinguishes Gearon from her contemporaries. Daddy, Where Are You? combines revealing tableaux, garnered from Gearon's o bservations o f family o utings and routines, with a sequence o f portraits o f her mother. Together they capture the impos...
Born in Atlanta, GA, Gearon is an acclaimed Los Angeles based contemporary photographer, who gained both critical and commercial recognition for her powerful and intense color photographs. She was thrust into the spotlight in 2001 when her work was featured as one of the main photographers in the famed "I Am A Camera" exhibition at Saatchi Gallery in London. She has been exhibited at many prominent galleries and museums including, The Parrish Art Museum, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, and Phillips de Pury & Company in London. In 2006, she released her critically-acclaimed series The Mother Project along with a film, which was a featured selection at numerous film festivals, including The Tribeca Film Festival. Her most recent project, a 24-page feature of 13 Hollywood heroines, was featured in NY Ti...
Artist's Reception
Thursday, October 19, 2006, 6:00–8:00 pm
Yossi Milo Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of color photographs by Tierney Gearon. Entitled The Mother Project, the exhibition will open on October 19, and close on November 25, with a reception for the artist on Thursday, October 19, from 6:00 to 8:00 pm. This will be the artist's first exhibition at the gallery.
Tierney Gearon's most recent work, The Mother Project, is the culmination of a series spanning more than eight years. The artist continues to photograph her family, but now concentrates on her mother, who lives alone in a small town in upstate New York. The exhibition will include twenty-five 20” x 24” photographs set mainly in and around her mother's home. The images depict psychologically intense, often bizarre scenarios, so...