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Purple Magazine
— The Los Angeles Issue #30 F/W 2018

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All artworks copyright Jack Pierson and courtesy Regen Projects, Los Angeles

New York artist Jack Pierson examines what he calls “the tragedy inherent in the pursuit of glamour.” Collecting dismembered letters from a century of commercial signage, he reassembles them on the wall like Scrabble letters, evoking America’s broken dreams and fading glory.

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