Along with artists Julian Stanczak, Edwin Mieczowkski and others, Pearson was central to the flourishing of geometric abstraction in Cleveland from the mid-1960s through the 1970s. He received the Cleveland Arts Prize in Visual Art in 1975, when he was becoming known for the colorful drawings, prints and paintings he composed using mathematically-derived systems.
Over the decades, Pearson has experimented with a variety of media and worked in formats ranging from monumental to miniscule. Constantly investigating new ideas, he has produced many distinct bodies of work that explore relationships between shape, color, line and form within the parameters of hard-edged abstraction.
