Florence Miller Pierce became the youngest member of New Mexicos Transcendental Painting Group in the late 1930s. Today, more than half a century later, she continues to sail effortlessly out ahead of the trend. Her work combines painting and sculpture in a pristine artform of translucent resin poured on reflective surfaces, with edges shaped to the idea at hand. These minimal pieces are hung on the wall like mirrors of the subconscious, drawing in each idea that comes before them and giving it back as complex, delicately restructured, pure light.

Florence Pierce is a master of poured resin, a medium so demanding in sheer physical terms that few people of any age attempt it. She has such an affinity for it that she thinks about it even when she is not pouring. She colors it in the richest imaginable clear primaries, sheaths it in metallic veils, or draws back to a white on white surface that is shot through with subtleties of flickering light. Her art has been featured in solo museum exhibits and important group shows, has entered major collections, and has taken her to the zenith of critical acclaim.