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About Nathalie Tierce

A major influence on Nathalie Tierce’s paintings is her lifelong fascination and personal relationship to spaces. Growing up in New York City, her memories of being in and among the buildings and rooms that are the backdrop to life’s events intertwine with her emotional history around them.

At odds with a sense of spatial direction, her ambivalence to an ordered universe and gravity is prevalent in her depiction of structure. Architectural elements threaten, fall and float. A sense of overwhelming wonder at a life lived within man-made walls pervades her work.

You can find Nathalie on Facebook, Instagram, and on her website, tierceart.com.

Memory of Place: 8 paintings by Nathalie Tierce

Nathalie Tierce

No Way Out (detail) by Nathalie Tierce

I start with ripping apart issues of Architectural Digest and create dozens of collages very quickly that I make to capture a certain mood. From these compositions, I select the few that I’ll develop … [Read more...]

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Established in 2000 and edited by Denise Enck, Empty Mirror is an online literary magazine that publishes new work each Friday.

Each week EM features several poems each by one or two poets; reviews; critical essays; visual art; and personal essays.

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