Bio

Collage provides the closest language to describe how I work– meandering, omnidirectional, combinational – somewhere between image and object. More than anything, it expresses a practice that is fundamentally relational. It tints the world around me with a creative uncertainty where all things are on the verge of radiance.

Maggie Pierce is a Texas-born artist who lives and works in Tempe, Arizona. She works across media, where many paths lead back to the image, and shares Philip K. Dick’s sense that the divine appears in the trash stratum. Gathering materials from her surroundings, Pierce engages an accretive process that unfurls from and contends with a cultural landscape dense with visual noise, material excess, fragments, detritus, and images. Pierce received her MFA from Arizona State University in 2023. She teaches studio art and design, has exhibited nationally in galleries and project spaces, produces work in multiple formats including artist books and zines, and recently presented a solo exhibition in Phoenix.