HEARNE PARDEE

JUNE 13 - JULY 12, 2026

Collaging colored paper to paintings of everyday neighborhoods lends objective form to my personal observations and a connection to the overall spaces in which they’re immersed. Rooted in my feet on the ground, rather than in a distant vanishing point, I turn in all directions to combine multiple viewpoints; thinking in terms of paths within fields, I’ve placed collages on the floor and collaborated with dancers.

I’ve constructed abstract landscapes in the studio, where rocks and a clear container of water allude to the universal forms of Asian landscape painting. Their interplay of fluidity and stasis imparts to the room the same immersive luminosity that I find on suburban sidewalks, where landscaping softens the modernist grid by alluding to pastoral lushness or, in drought-ridden California, to the spirituality of Japanese rock gardens; these “sidewalk gardens” provide fields for everyday improvisation. My most recent works take their departure from our backyard in Germantown to situate me within the natural and cultural contexts of the Hudson Valley.