About

Shane Pierce

 

  Shane Pierce is an American artist and the creator of NOMADS. Painting for entertainment and creator owned properties. Conceptual, Illustration, Gallery.

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2024
Cover art for Label619
Cover art for Panick!
Cover art for Dead Sky Publishing
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2024
New Interview: Hifructose Interview

Current Exhibit: "Eerie Musings"  with Copro Gallery, August 10, 2024 - August 31
Eerie Musings will continue the narrative theme of Shane's dark travelers, night watchers and passengers. 

Beautiful Bizarre Magazine: Article about the show

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Shane Pierce is an artist. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Last Rites Gallery have featured Shane Pierce's work in the past. Shane Pierce has been featured in articles for Hi-Fructose, JUXTAPOZ and Fine Art Connoisseur. The most recent article is ‘Conjoined vs. Grotesque’ Group Show Celebrates the Monstrous written for Hi-Fructose in January 2019
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     Evan Senn - "Traveling all over the United States, carrying with him his own personal baggage of memories and experiences, he paints a different world into existence. Dark and ominous creatures, emotional weight, honesty and experience ring loudly throughout his paintings. Dark traveling characters bombard his imagination and his artwork, angels and grim reapers haunt his creations in subtle ways, while the rough and raw American landscape keep his nomads company on their seemingly lonesome and aimless journeys. His artwork is as unique and haunting as he is. A storyteller at his core, his creations are hypnotic, drawing the viewer in and plaguing them with interest and intrigue. A cloaked man, with determination and fury across his brow, often paired with a suitcase and a pipe, ventures to the dark and unknown places of his imagination. Constantly followed by the shadows, Pierce’s nomads travel with fervor, unafraid of what lies ahead, or behind them."

 

 

 Shane paints for books, comics, galleries, games, and creator owned projects.

 

Solo Exhibitions

2018 Last Rites Gallery, Nomadic Nights - New York, NY

     Deianira Tolema - "As for the artist’s figurative subjects, whose moving surroundings change shape as they breathe, they are just as provocative yet elusive as Boldini’s female characters according to Dwight MacDonald, indeed, the winding trend of their facial traits, hard to pin to the surface, exudes pain and angst when left undefined; the uncertainty of their emotional states juxtaposed to anatomical detail evokes Pierce’s obsession with non-academic technical virtuosity. In the work, “Nomadic Nights,” everything is on fire, and the viewers are invited to tell the difference between whatever is left of humanity according to the artist, and the layers of paint resembling skies as thick as baroque draperies that appear to have a life of their own; a train has stopped in the middle of a desert at night, and the only survivors are two zombies wearing anonymous clothes and dragging their own dead bodies around with contempt – these men’s only companions are the eternal fog they were born out of, and their soul-carrying, leather suitcases."

 

Group Exhibitions

2024 
Copro Gallery 
LA Artshow

Copro Gallery Presents: Modern + Contemporary Group Exhibition July 27, 2021 

Chet Zar & Jeremy Wagner present: ‘CONJOINED VS. GROTESQUE’ Celebrating the Denizens of the Dark Exhibition Dates: January 19 – February 16, 2019

2019
Copro Gallery 
LA Artshow

Pushead Hyperstoic 

2018,2016

New York, San Diego

2016 Last Rites Gallery, Distorted Mirror

New York, NY

2016 Abend Gallery, Inner Visions

Denver, CO

2016 Last Rites Gallery, 13th Hour

New York, NY

2016 Haven Gallery, Tempest

New York, NY

2016 Ars Memoria

Chicago, IL

2015 Haven Gallery,

New York, NY

2016 Last Rites Gallery,

New York, NY

2015 Last Rites Gallery,

New York, NY

2014 Gallery Provocateur,

Chicago, IL

2014 Last Rites Gallery,

New York, NY

2013 Last Rites Gallery,

New York, NY

2012 Strychnin Gallery Berlin

 

Publications

2015 IDW Cover work, Titan

2014 IDW Cover work, Showtime

2013 IDW Cover work, Heavy Metal

2012 Photoshop Top 25 Professional

2012 Imagine FX

Monocyte

2011 44Flood TOME

2008 Advance Photoshop Magazine

 

Annuals

2015 Spectrum annual 22

2014 Spectrum annual 21

2013 Spectrum annual 20

2009 Spectrum annual 16

 

Clients

Harley-Davidson

Heavy Metal Magazine

Sony Entertainment

Electronic Arts

Titan

44Flood

IDW

DC

Wildstorm

Epic Games

Video Game Discography: 

2019
Robo Recall: Unplugged (Quest) Special Thanks
2018
Red Faction: Guerrilla - Re-Mars-tered (Windows) Additional Art
Fortnite (iPhone) Designed, Developed, and Published by Epic Games
2017
Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition (Xbox One) Sr. Artists
Robo Recall (Windows) Special Thanks
Fortnite (Windows) Epic Games
Fortnite (Standard Founder's Pack) (Windows) Designed, Developed, and Published by Epic Games
2016
Paragon (Windows) Concept Team (uncredited)
2015
Shadow Complex: Remastered (Windows) Epic Games
2013
Gears of War: Judgment (Xbox 360) Sr. Concept Artists
2011
Infinity Blade II (iPhone) Senior Concept Artist
Gears of War 3 (Xbox 360) Sr. Concept Artists
Bulletstorm (Windows) Additional Artwork: Sr. Artist
2010
Infinity Blade (iPhone) Senior Concept Artist
Syphon Filter: Logan's Shadow (PlayStation 2) Additional Concept Art
2009
Red Faction: Guerrilla (Windows) Additional Art
Fat Princess (PlayStation 3) Epic Games Inc.
2008
Gears of War 2 (Xbox 360) Sr. Concept Artists
Gears of War 2 (Limited Edition) (Xbox 360) Sr. Concept Artists
Unreal Tournament III (Xbox 360) Artists
2007
Unreal Tournament III (Windows) Artists
Syphon Filter: Logan's Shadow (PSP) Additional Concept Art
Syphon Filter: Dark Mirror (PlayStation 2) Concept Art
2006
Syphon Filter: Dark Mirror (PSP) Concept Art
2004
Syphon Filter: The Omega Strain (PlayStation 2) Lead Art
2001
Syphon Filter 3 (PlayStation) Motion Capture Supervisor
2000
Madden NFL 2001 (PlayStation 2) Artist
Madden NFL 2001 (Nintendo 64) Supporting Artists