Welcome to the website celebrating the wonderful world of Pierre Picot
1948 – 2021
When we met in LA in 1997, his work had been mostly out of public view for 10 years. After a great run in the 1980’s, with sold out shows at Jan Baum’s gallery, he decided to pull back from the Art World, with its demands to continue to create the work he had become known for, some of which you can see in the gallery on this site called “1980’s”.
He had myriad ideas and the technical chops with which to explore them, and he always took off in many directions at the same time, working with what he called “simultaneity”. He loved movies like Tampopo, wherein the main action got waylaid by side stories of other characters who crossed the screen. He approached his work this way, with tangents veering off to other ideas whenever they occurred to him. He was magically able to follow up on all of his different mini obsessions without sacrificing his focus or the quality of his images, in fact each one fed the other, resulting in a seemingly random yet cohesive production of drawings, paintings and objects for 40 years.
Seen together on this site, his work looks like the output of 10 different artists. Therein lies the originality, the charm, and the gift of this extraordinary artist.
When we moved to Brittany in 2012, we discovered that indeed “absence makes the heart grow fonder” and all of a sudden he was offered a show by the visionary Bob Branaman at Beyond Baroque, which led to his representation by Craig Krull in Bergamost Station.
Feel free to contact me with any comments or questions about the site or Pierre’s work.
Wendy Holden Picot
Brittany, France 2024