Hardridge’s latest work “Unbridled” is on view at Santa Fe’s Blue Rain Gallery.
The artist grew up in central Oklahoma surrounded by the artistic traditions of his culture. His formal training includes a fine arts degree in illustration and painting from the Savannah College of Art and Design in Georgia. Later studies at France’s Nadaï Verdon Atelier of Decorative Arts emphasized harmony and composition.
Hardridge once painted in a very traditional, muted style until the 2014 death of his father triggered a seismic stylistic change.
“I was going through a transitional period in painting,” he said in a telephone interview from Knoxville, Tennessee. “I was studying the beadwork and trying to put together work representing loss and resistance at the same time, and the narrative of Southeast Native removal from Alabama to Oklahoma.”
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Pueblo kiva steps scatter across Jody Naranjo’s pottery like butterflies. But this time, they glitter with light.
The Santa Clara potter is collaborating with the legendary Tlingit glass artist Preston Singletary to create glass pottery with Naranjo’s distinctive pueblo designs. Their pairing resulted in 15 pieces displayed at Santa Fe’s Blue Rain Gallery through April 17.
“Navajo Blanket,” Preston Singletary and Jody Naranjo, blown and sanded carved glass. (Courtesy of Blue Rain Gallery )
The show marks the third time the two artists have worked together. Singletary first approached Naranjo about the idea 12 years ago.
“It was a natural because she is such a sweetheart,” Singletary said in a telephone interview from Seattle. “I had also collaborated with (potter/sculptor) Tammy Garcia and (bead artist) Marcus Amerman.
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The second from a series of themed exhibitions drawing on the talent of celebrated Blue Rain Gallery painters. Each Artist has been tasked with identifying and reinterpreting a masterwork by Joseph Henry Sharp (1859 - 1953). Each artist will draw on the strength of Sharp s original painting, while making the piece current and infusing it with their own unique style.
SANTE FE, N.M. (PRWEB) April 03, 2021 Blue Rain Gallery is pleased to announce an upcoming group exhibition titled Taos Six Collection: An Homage to Joseph Henry Sharp. This show of new works is scheduled to take place April 30 – May 22, 2021 with an opening night reception on Friday, April 30th from 5 – 7pm.