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Sacraments Of Splendor In Naudline Pierre’s For I Am with You Until the End of Time
at Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles (through 26 October)
Reviewed by y Eve Wood
No doubt Brooklyn based artist Naudline Pierre keeps the sacraments, though not necessarily the ones decried by the Almighty Himself, living instead, I would imagine, according to a more personal but none less rigorous code of ethics informed more by beauty and love than by traditions and dogma. Her first exhibition at Shulamit Nazarian, aptly titled For I Am with You Until the End of Time, which is from the King James Bible Matthew 28:20 which cautions the reader to observe all of God’s teachings no matter the evident cost. This statement could also be considered comforting, or a means by which us mere mortals might soothe our aching souls, knowing that we are connected somehow to the divine. One thing is clear for sure — Pierre believes in the healing powers of love — most importantly our own innate ability to transform dark and disturbing experiences into something more joyous.
Informed by her own religious upbringing, Pierre reimagines what appears to be more traditionally based iconography derived from centuries of religious teachings and images, weaving these themes into her own uniquely engaging narratives. The result is an amalgam of images recasting familiar Biblical…
