Gearon, Tierney

Tierney Gearon’s The Mother Project is autobiographical work that documents the artist’s intergenerational position between her mother and her young children. Taken in upstate New York, the series is an eloquent and idiosyncratic portrayal of her attempts to connect with her declining mother. The project allowed Gearon to come to terms with her own childhood, to test out maternal boundaries, and to understand her changing identity as a mother of four children. These are not simply pictures of her mother but images of a relationship between mothers, of the processing of that relationship by an adult daughter, of her coming to terms with established maternal expectations, and of assuming and then reversing accepted familial roles. Tierney Gearon has been included in many exhibitions nationally and internationally, including exhibitions at Gagosian, Yossi Milo, and the Saatchi Gallery. She was included in the Museum of Contemporary Photography exhibition, Home Truths: Photography and Motherhood, in 2014.