"Language labels only those few segments of the continuous color space which are important to us, and thus the study of color as we understand it becomes very much the study of color-language." - John Gage, Color and Meaning
Lauren Alyssa Bierly (b. 1986) is a Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary artist, and an arts administrator. Her artwork is grounded in perception theory, and inspired by biomimicry, ecology, and literature. Her work takes the form of mixed-media installations, text-to-color translations, sensory libraries, and interactive mapping. As a synaesthete, Bierly is interested in the intersection of sensory languages—like color perception and sound—and how these sensory vocabularies shape one’s subjective experience of identity and place.
Bierly has exhibited in upstate New York, New York City, Oregon, and Kolkata, India. She was artist-in-residence at chaNorth Residency (2018); Starry Night (2017); Panoply Performance Lab (2016) and Trestle Gallery (2015). In 2015, she joined collective Incredible Witness developing perception-based exercises through the lens of game theory. She is a regular participant of the University of Sussex’s ongoing research on Synesthesia since 2013.
Bierly is also Manager of Special Exhibitions and Projects for The Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. She has led production for In Pursuit of Fashion: The Sandy Schreier Collection (2019), Camp: Notes on Fashion (2019), Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination (2018), Rei Kawakubo | Comme des Garcons: Art of the In-Between (2017), Masterworks: Unpacking Fashion (2016), and Manus x Machina: Art in An Age of Technology (2016). She has participated on panels organized by Harlem School of Arts, Women in Bio, AlterConf NYC, Feldenheimer Gallery, Pratt Institute, and Artists Talk on Art, and been a guest critic at chaNorth Residency, Trestle Art Space, and Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts.
Bierly earned a Bachelor of Architecture and minor in Art History from Pennsylvania State University (2009), and Masters of Art in Modern Art, Connoisseurship, and History of the Art Market from Christie’s Education (2010), and was recently nominated for the Columbia Business School Metropolitan Museum of Art Leadership Program (2019).
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Photo credit Matthew Vicari
Lauren Alyssa Bierly (b. 1986) is a Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary artist, and an arts administrator. Her artwork is grounded in perception theory, and inspired by biomimicry, ecology, and literature. Her work takes the form of mixed-media installations, text-to-color translations, sensory libraries, and interactive mapping. As a synaesthete, Bierly is interested in the intersection of sensory languages—like color perception and sound—and how these sensory vocabularies shape one’s subjective experience of identity and place.
Bierly has exhibited in upstate New York, New York City, Oregon, and Kolkata, India. She was artist-in-residence at chaNorth Residency (2018); Starry Night (2017); Panoply Performance Lab (2016) and Trestle Gallery (2015). In 2015, she joined collective Incredible Witness developing perception-based exercises through the lens of game theory. She is a regular participant of the University of Sussex’s ongoing research on Synesthesia since 2013.
Bierly is also Manager of Special Exhibitions and Projects for The Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. She has led production for In Pursuit of Fashion: The Sandy Schreier Collection (2019), Camp: Notes on Fashion (2019), Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination (2018), Rei Kawakubo | Comme des Garcons: Art of the In-Between (2017), Masterworks: Unpacking Fashion (2016), and Manus x Machina: Art in An Age of Technology (2016). She has participated on panels organized by Harlem School of Arts, Women in Bio, AlterConf NYC, Feldenheimer Gallery, Pratt Institute, and Artists Talk on Art, and been a guest critic at chaNorth Residency, Trestle Art Space, and Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts.
Bierly earned a Bachelor of Architecture and minor in Art History from Pennsylvania State University (2009), and Masters of Art in Modern Art, Connoisseurship, and History of the Art Market from Christie’s Education (2010), and was recently nominated for the Columbia Business School Metropolitan Museum of Art Leadership Program (2019).
Click here to download CV.
Photo credit Matthew Vicari