Jack Pierson

Cry

Maker

Jack Pierson (American, b. 1960)

Title

Cry

Year

2009

Medium

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

Dimensions

50.8 x 154.9 x 2.5 cm (20 x 61 x 1 inches)

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Helen M. Danforth Acquisition Fund

Object Number

2018.37

Type

Publications

  • Journal

Manual / Issue 16: Intimacy

RISD Museum’s Manual 16 Embraces Intimacy

Intimacy reveals something deeply human in us. We need each other on a practical level, which means having to trust strangers. It’s analogous to what I understand prayer requires and what writing poems requires: an openness to the unknown, coupled with trust, a belief that we won’t be hurt. It’s at once akin to and the same as devotion.
-Carl Phillips

The RISD Museum’s sixteenth issue of Manual touches on the bonds of intimacy and its many expressions. This issue complements the exhibition Any distance between us, co-curated by Stephen Truax and Dominic Molon, on view at the RISD Museum through March 13, 2022.

Exhibition History

Any distance between us
Jul 17, 2021 – Mar 13, 2022

Label copy

Pierson’s word works developed from his experience as a graphic designer and the period his studio was located in New York’s Times Square district in the late 1980s and early 1990s. His nostalgic evocation of a bygone era-when signs were handmade-combines with words or phrases that possess an emotional affect, such as cry.

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Tombstone

Jack Pierson (American, b. 1960)
Cry, 2009
Metal, wood and paint
50.8 x 154.9 x 2.5 cm (20 x 61 x 1 inches)
Helen M. Danforth Acquisition Fund 2018.37

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