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Artist Talk: Soli Pierce on “Stillness Speaks”

  • BAU Gallery 506 Main Street Beacon, NY, 12508 United States (map)

Join us as Soli Pierce discusses her new exhibition, Stillness Speaks, which brings together long-exposure photography, encaustic painting, and sculpture in a meditation on light, time, and presence. Across these practices, Pierce seeks a "still point"—an anchoring force within an often-fractured world. Embracing duration, materiality, and quiet transformation, the work reflects on vulnerability, grief, and the enduring potential for resilience. Stillness Speaks honors stillness as a way of navigating uncertainty and reawakening vitality and possibility. The installation invites a reverence in which light operates as both medium and metaphor, in which Pierce opens a space for quiet contemplation.

About the artist: A 2025 Artist-in-Residence at KinoSaito (NY) and Jentel (WY), Pierce recently collaborated with sonic artist Bruce Odland on Sound Forest, presented at the Hammond Museum, ArtsWestchester, and KinoSaito Arts Center (2024–2025). Her work has been featured in The New York TimesThe Village Voice, and Ars Electronica, with exhibitions across the U.S. and Europe.

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