Background
She was born in Atlanta, Georgia.
She was born in Atlanta, Georgia.
She had no formal art training, but studied ballet in Utah, where a European model agency saw her.
This led to five years of modeling and traveling the world. During this time she took up photography herself. A Paris agent saw some of her Polaroid photos and encouraged her to do more work.
She then became a fashion photographer for five years.
Her work was used in magazines and on Times Square billboards. Her personal work often revolves around her family and friends.
She then started photographing her mother. That work was shown as an exhibition called "The Mother project" and 70 images where published as a book and called "Daddy, where are you?".
The press reported police threats to seize the work, but this was denied by the police and no further action was taken.
2003 her work was included in the book "British Artists At Work" along with 46 other artists, for Italian Vogue editor Franca Sozzani, with photographs by Amanda Eliasch and text by Gemma de Cruz. 2008 Gearon was given her first solo show in London with Phillip du Pury, Auction House. Exhibition containing double exposures.
2009 The Ace Gallery Los Los Angeles
The double exposure project Explosure 2012 In partnership with the New York Times Magazine, Tearney was asked to make a series of short films.
2013 a new book came out "Tierney Gearon: The Alphabet Book", "Shape Color", and Foreign the book, Gearon collaborated with her two youngest children, of her four, to make scenes for each letter of the alphabet. Scenes include "Naughty Nurse" and "Private Princess.
The work was published as a book in 2013 by Tierney Gearon in 2006 was the subject of a documentary film titled "" The film by Jack Youngelson & Peter Sutherland follows the artist as she photographs her mother.
During the course of the film, she moves back to the United States and has another child. The film was released in 2007. She is a contributor for Above magazine.
Her work is widely collected and is in Saatchi"s collection, the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, and Phillips de Pury & Company in London.
She is represented by Yossi Milo Gallery in New York City and Jackson Fine Art in Atlanta, Georgia.
There were three complaints by members of the public, and the police visited the gallery twice, causing a great deal of media coverage, debating the rights and wrongs of such work, generally in favor of Gearon.