Bio

In her career as an artist, Nathalie Tierce has worked on projects as diverse as productions for Shell Silverstein, Andrew Llyod Webber, The Rolling Stones, period dramas for the BBC, feature films such as Martin Scorcese’s Shutter Island, Tim Burton’s Alice, and painting murals for Disney. 

In her work as a visual storyteller, she uses cartoon and symbolic imagery to convey psychological struggles in her paintings and drawings. Her three books, Chronicles of Fear - Tales of Woe, Fairy Tale Remnants, and Pulling Weeds from a Cactus Garden - Life is full of Pricks, are surreal fairy tales for grown-ups, compiled of her mixed media work, accompanied by her short prose.

The acclaimed counterculture cartoonist and artist R. Crumb wrote about Tierce;“ a genuine visionary artist with a direct line to (her) subconscious.”

Jessica McCort - Los Angeles Review of Books -“Tierce participates in the Goreyesque tradition of destroying readers’ expectations for the work they have picked up — in this case, the picture book.”

Dave Cooper, artist, animator, and cartoonist, said, "Tierce's paintings are wonderful. Bizarre and genuine and unsettling. Some reminded me of the great George Grosz.

The Comics Review U.K. Included her book, Pulling Weeds from a Cactus Garden, in “Best of 2021” and said, “The marriage of image and text…can simultaneously tickle like a feather, cut like a scalpel and hit like a steam-hammer.”

Born and raised in New York City, Nathalie received her formal training at Pratt Institute in New York and L’ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, then spent ten years in Europe refining her craft as a painter.

Her artwork appears in publications such as Mineshaft and Spread Love.

She maintains a studio in Glendale, CA, living with her sculptor husband, Chris Towle, son Joshua, and two cats.

Solo Shows

Studio DDLA, “Rites of Passage,” Los Angeles, CA March 2024

Brassworks Gallery, “Villians and Heroes,” Portland, OR, November 2023

Gallery 825, “Pulling Weeds from a Cactus Garden,” Los Angeles, CA, August 2022

Space 2531 "Dysfunctional Machine" Los Angeles, CA June 2018

Group Exhibitions

Brassworks Gallery Group Show, “Carnivale Fabulon, ” Portland, OR, August 2024

Brassworks Gallery Group Show, “Fragment,” Portland, OR, February 2024

Copro Gallery Group Show “BLAB!" Curated by Monte Beauchamp, Santa Monica, CA, September 2023

Brassworks Gallery Group Show, “The Fringe,” Portland, OR, November 2022

Martha’s Contemporary Gallery, Group Show, “Unconquerable Women,” Austin, TX, October 2021

Gold Bug, Group Show, “Spirits,” auction to benefit the ACLU, Pasadena, CA, October 2021

Brassworks Gallery, Online Group Show “Urban Aesops,” Portland, OR, May 2021

Gallery 825, Group Show, “Informationary,” Los Angeles, CA, March 2021

Gallery 825, Open Show 2020, Curated by Shana Nys Dambrot, Los Angeles, CA December 2020

The San Diego Museum of Art, Group Show, 2020 Winter Exhibition, San Diego, CA December 2020

Gallery 825, Group Show, “Exalted One,” Los Angeles, CA, August 2020

Artsy/Castelli Art Space, “A Surreal Life” Group Show, July 2020

Gallery 825, Group Show, “Field of Vision,” Los Angeles, CA, July 2020

Gallery 825, Group Show, “Art in Seclusion,” Los Angeles, CA, April 2020

St. Jude’s Charity Auction, Group Exhibition at The Culver Hotel January 2020

Book Monster Pop-up solo exhibit and book signing, “Fairy Tale Remnants,” Santa Monica, CA December 2019

Brand Art Center, 47th Annual Juried Exhibition Curated by Alma Ruiz, Glendale, CA September 2019

Cooper Design Space, Group Show, “Nude Art L.A.” Los Angeles, CA February 2019

Avenue 50 Studio, Group Show, “The Emperor’s New Clothes,” Los Angeles, CA February 2019

The Neutra Museum, Group Show, “Contemporary 2019”, Los Angeles, CA January 2019

The Neutra Museum, Group Show, “The Hunted,” Los Angeles, CA November 2018

Building Bridges Gallery, Juried Group Show, Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series October 2018

Ace 121 Gallery, Group Show, "Queer" Glendale, CA June 2018

Alliance Francaise, Group Show, "Dépayser" Pasadena, CA March 2018

Arena One Gallery, Group Show, Curated by Jill Moniz  "Art Speaks"” Santa Monica, CA February 2018

L.A. Artcore, Juried Show, Brewery Annex Gallery, L.A., CA Aug 2017

BG Gallery, Group Show "Spectrum Gestalt 4", Santa Monica, CA June 2017

Channel Island Studio Group Show "Next Big Thing"” Camarillo, CA May 2017

Open House, Solo Show 19 Paintings, Hollywood Hills, CA January 2017

Blue Line Arts, Group Show "The Art of Ekphrasis"” Roseville, CA January 2017

Events

"The Big Projection Project" by Stephen Levey, Outdoor Event, seven of my paintings projected onto two and three-story buildings, West Hollywood, CA, May 2019