TIERNEY, REGINA

REGINA TIERNEY, PAINTER, ACTIVIST, PIONEER FROM MILFORD, CT. DIES AT 63 by Victoria Wilson

Regina Marie Tierney, painter, leader of feminist art institution, founder and president of Outer Circle Advertising Agency, acclaimed videographer, designer and pioneer in 3-D animation, and a force who broke barriers with her politics, vision and inventiveness, died at Yale New Haven Hospital after a brief illness on February 27th.

She was 63 years old, was born and grew up in Milford, Connecticut, the loving daughter of Loretta and Paul Tierney and attended Seabreeze and Joseph A Foran schools.

Miss Tierney, from childhood, an activist and determined student of art, went on to Boston University, on a full scholarship where she was a much-admired artist, receiving her MFA in art from the school.

Tierney’s paintings - portraiture, landscapes, naturalistic, influenced by the work of Edward Hopper and others, were strong, bold and infused with deep emotion.

Tierney left Boston and moved to New York in 1983, where she ran the NY Feminist Art Institute, from 1984 to its closing in 1990, organizing many exhibitions including the work of Louise Nevelson.

“I was a painter, a teacher,” said Miss Tierney in an oral history of the Institute, conducted in 2008 by Katie Cercone. “For me, art was an extension of my political beliefs, thinking and philosophy.”

Tierney, with Maureen Mangiardi, founded in 1994, what became the successful and pioneering, Outer Circle Advertising Agency.

During this time Tierney was, as well, a Professor of Computer Graphics at the New York Institute of Technology where her innate grasp of painting and extraordinary teaching skills made her much admired and beloved by her students.

In 2005, Miss Tierney returned to Milford, Ct. to devote herself to the full-time care of her ailing mother, and where she soon established rtierneydigital.com., teaching herself code, and going on to design and create websites and videos for many acclaimed novelists, biographers, cultural historians and artists, to coincide with the publication of their books.

In 2012, she began her work with Nicholas Fox Weber, head of the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation in Bethany, Ct, helping to put forth the work of the Albers Foundation and of Josef and Anni Albers themselves.

Regina is survived by her long-time beloved partner of thirty-two years, writer and book editor, Victoria Wilson of New York City, and devoted friends, Melody Moreno Dunn of Milford, Ct and Maureen Mangiardi of New York, as well as three sisters, nieces and nephews.

The Regina Tierney Fund for Visiting Artists has been set up by Nicholas Fox Weber, Executive Director of The Albers Foundation for an artist residency program.

Please make all donations to:

Josef and Anni Albers Foundation

88 Beacon Road

Bethany, Connecticut 06524 attention: Nicholas Fox Weber https://secure.donationpay.org/aflk/