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MEREDITH PARDUE : EDGE AND SURFACE

Film by Eric Minh Swenson. Music by Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Fresh Paint is pleased to present "Edge and Surface", featuring new paintings by Claudia Meyer and Meredith Pardue. Meyer's sculptural wall paintings are a complex balance of hard-edged acrylic surfaces with both front and reverse surface painting, carving and soft mixed media material applications. Pardue's paintings have an incredible surface texture by incorporating ink, oil and graphite on canvas. The juxtaposition of Meyer's hard-edged paintings with a variety of surface textures contrasted with Pardue's smoother colorful paintings with rounded forms compliment each other while sharing a unique dialogue. Meredith Pardue: "I combine the random actions of painting with controlled, deliberate mark-making to describe each form in my work, which often appears floral or plantlike in structure. The canvases are composed of organic forms that derive from those found in nature, but ultimately the paintings are a visual record of an unplanned dialogue between myself and a blank canvas. Together the marks and forms create a visual language that reads as something unique to each viewer. I position these forms against a pale ground that at first glance appears to be an expanse of negative space, but is actually a built-up surface that, upon closer inspection, reveals the history of the layers of paint, which are more elevated from the surface of the canvas than the forms themselves. It is neither the form nor the ground that I explore in my work, but the relationship between these two. The space is pushed and pulled through the tension of positive and negative spaces and through the dynamic of the compositions, which generally tend to rotate or undulate within the framework of the canvas. I could say that I intimate a certain relationship between physical and psychological space in my work, because in a sense that is true. But my approach to making a painting is more comfortable, intuitive, and personal than cerebral. And the result of this visual investigation—the painting—reflects that process. I am most interested in extracting singular experiences—snapshots—from life's endless cycles of growth and decay, and in transforming the public, universal worlds of nature and human dynamics into sites of private knowledge." Pardue received an M.F.A. from Parsons School of Design in New York and a B.F.A. from the Savannah College of Art and Design. Her work has been exhibited and collected worldwide and published in Architectural Digest, Dwell, New American Paintings, and Austin Monthly Home. Her work is included in the corporate collections of J. Crew Corporate Headquarters, Genstar Capital, The Michael and Susan Dell Foundation, Oceania Cruise Lines, Scott and White Children's Hospital, and the Savannah College of Art and Design. She lives and works in Austin, TX. For more info on Eric Minh Swenson or project inquiries visit his website: thuvanarts.com ART FILM SERIES: thuvanarts.com/take1