Longtime followers of Curating Los Angeles will likely remember my previous posts about English painter John Tierney. Ever since first learning of the artist and his work in late 2011, I’ve had the pleasure of interviewing Tierney, meeting him during one of his regular visits to LA, and seeing his paintings in person when I […]
Hollywood, Fashion, Los Angeles: John Tierney Exhibition Opening Brings them all Together
May 16, 2012 5:10 pm By
Last Thursday night I attended the opening of American Light: Paintings by John Tierney at the Paul Smith shop on Melrose. Unlike other art events I’ve experienced in the past, this one had a decidedly Hollywood / fashion industry vide. As the invitation only crowd browsed Paul Smith’s latest collection, waiters clad in all black served wine and British beer to the artist and his son Ben, Alan Aldridge, Josh Duhamel, Stacy Ferguson (aka Fergie), Ryan Philippe, Diana Aragon, Abbie Cornish and Mira Sorvino, among many others.
John Tierney Exhibition Coming to Paul Smith on Melrose
May 7, 2012 10:51 pm By
Earlier this year I published a story about English painter John Tierney, who makes regular visits to southern California and has a particular fascination with the City of Los Angeles and the area in and around Joshua Tree National Park. After interviewing him for my article and spending time looking at his paintings online, I became an admirer of his work because of the way he uses vivid colors and deftly captures light and shadow in his urban and desert landscapes.
John Tierney Sees the Light in Los Angeles… and Paints
January 16, 2012 6:42 pm By
Like many artists before him, John Tierney is fascinated by light – the way it reflects off surfaces, creates shadows, sets mood, saturates colors and highlights elements of a building, street, person or landscape. While this English artist grew up painting in his native country, it was his travels abroad, particularly to Los Angeles, New York and Helsinki, where each of his three grown sons now live, that exposed him to very different lighting conditions and allowed him to push the boundaries of his work.
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