About the artwork
Meredith Pardue's lyric work is full of poesy and femininity. With faded colors, pastel tones, beige background, and round splashes of discrete hues, her paintings are a delight to the eyes. The artist brings light to her artworks by the balance and equilibrium of white enveloping her abstract motifs. The forms appear organic, almost evaluating, moving as the viewer admires it. Serene by the choice of colors yet dynamic by the forms, Meredith Pardue's work expresses true harmony, like a yin and yang on canvas.
About the artist
Meredith Pardue was born in Monroe, Louisiana in 1975. An abstract artist, Pardue earned her MFA. from Parsons School of Design in New York and a BFA. from the Savannah College of Art and Design. She currently lives and work in Austin, TX. Her work has been exhibited and collected worldwide, 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 combines the random action of painting with controlled, deliberate mark-making to describe each form in her work, which often appears plant-like in structure. The canvases are composed of organic forms that are similar to and possibly even derivative of those found in nature. But ultimately, the paintings are a visual record of an unplanned dialogue between herself and a blank canvas. Together, the marks and forms create a visual language that reads as something unique to each viewer.