IN NAUDLINE PIERRE’S paintings, dreams become reality, spirits take form, and wishes are granted. Her figures, many of them winged, glow incandescently in pink, purple, orange, yellow, green, or else they are shrouded in shadow, gray and brown. In this visionary world, scales and feathers turn into flesh and vice versa, while disembodied heads nestle amid the human figures. These are large-scale canvases, and their size augments their power to draw the viewer into the alternate universe portrayed therein.
Born in Leominster, Mass., Pierre now lives in Brooklyn, N.Y., where she has a studio in the Greenpoint section. At just 32, she is a new star in the art firmament, with a solo exhibition currently on view at the Dallas Museum of Art and another opening in April at James…
