“Paintings by Gloria Pierce are vivid variations on subjects recalling palm fronds and tropical flora. They also impart a subtle violence, almost like Van Gogh’s tortured sunflowers. ....
.... one can admire the energetic lines and coloring that makes these shapes seem ready to burst into flames.

Pierce, whose work was included in the Hort exhibitions at Fort Lauderdale’s Museum of Art and in the All florida Juried Exhibition at the Boca Raton Museum, works with oil pastels on paper. ”

“Eden artists such as Gloria Pierce, who derive their inspiration from the current mainstream in art, reveal a unique vision. The artists use their work to communicate their response and relation to the world and the region. Their tales, however, are rarely narrative. Like in contemporary Latin-American literature, the sense of time is compressed and images are distorted as thought the action is occurring in a dream. The works-at times comical, violent or threatening-are fables for modern times. ”

“From 250 artist submissions to the Jacksonville, FL Art Museum’s 1st biennial Painting and Drawing Exhibition in 1986,Gloria’s work was one of only 24 out of 250 artist submissions, selected by Nancy Hoffman, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, NYC, to be included in this show.

From the Jacksonville Journal at that time, Wayne Hamm, wrote about Gloria Pierce’s “Rhythmics,” as being a new kind of abstract work that was picked out in his review as a landscape being “a rather grand one at that.”