ABOUT
"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 with nine-years progressive exhibition management experience in contemporary art and fashion. Her artwork is grounded in perception theory and inspired by ecology and linguistics. Through processes of mapping, her work takes the form of mixed-media prototypes, large-scale installations, and text-to-color translations. As a synaesthete, Bierly is interested in the intersection of sensory languages—like color perception, sound recognition, memory—and how these sensory vocabularies shape one’s subjective experience of identity and place.
Bierly has exhibited in New York, Oregon, and Kolkata, India. She was artist-in-residence at Playa: Art + Science (2020); 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.
Until recently, Bierly was Manager of Special Exhibitions and Projects for The Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. She led production for About Time: Fashion and Duration (Fall 2020), 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 and Trestle Art Space.
Bierly earned a Bachelor of Architecture and minor in Art History from Pennsylvania State University (2009), Masters of Art in Modern Art, Connoisseurship, and History of the Art Market from Christie’s Education (2010), and Certificate in Executive Leadership from Columbia Business School (2019).
Photo credit Matthew Vicari
Lauren Alyssa Bierly (b. 1986) is a Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary artist with nine-years progressive exhibition management experience in contemporary art and fashion. Her artwork is grounded in perception theory and inspired by ecology and linguistics. Through processes of mapping, her work takes the form of mixed-media prototypes, large-scale installations, and text-to-color translations. As a synaesthete, Bierly is interested in the intersection of sensory languages—like color perception, sound recognition, memory—and how these sensory vocabularies shape one’s subjective experience of identity and place.
Bierly has exhibited in New York, Oregon, and Kolkata, India. She was artist-in-residence at Playa: Art + Science (2020); 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.
Until recently, Bierly was Manager of Special Exhibitions and Projects for The Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. She led production for About Time: Fashion and Duration (Fall 2020), 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 and Trestle Art Space.
Bierly earned a Bachelor of Architecture and minor in Art History from Pennsylvania State University (2009), Masters of Art in Modern Art, Connoisseurship, and History of the Art Market from Christie’s Education (2010), and Certificate in Executive Leadership from Columbia Business School (2019).
Photo credit Matthew Vicari
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