About
Alfred is a self-taught mixed media artist based in Berlin whose work is rooted in physicality, material sensitivity, and symbolic resonance. With a background in competitive athletics, architecture, and interior design, his approach bridges disciplines - drawing from a deep understanding of space, structure, and the body in motion. This foundation converges into a somatic, intuitive artmaking process - where gesture leads and form follows.
His work lives at the intersection of structure and spontaneity. His training in design lends a studied understanding of proportion, tension, and material interplay; his athletic past lends rhythm and presence. Each piece unfolds through process - an unfiltered response to mood, memory, and matter - transforming raw mark-making into images that feel elemental, mythic, and alive.
Working across mediums, his work distills momentary impressions into iconic forms that hover between a childlike immediacy and a personal mythology. Rather than suggesting answers, his works invite - holding space for recognition, emotion, and the shared language of the physical world.
Artist Statement
Sometimes life feels like it's happening at a distance - pulling us away from our sense of self.
My work is a resistance to that detachment - an insistence that memory, emotion, and presence are not abstractions, but physical forces we carry, transmit, and engage with. It's an attempt to re-enter the world through form, scale, and material presence.
Art is quite intimate: you're entering into someone's home and seeing how they really live. In that context, the viewer is invited in - and perhaps able to recognize something of their own.
© 2025 Alfred Pierce iii