Meredith Pardue

Born in Monroe, LA in 1975, Meredith Pardue is an acclaimed contemporary artist whose work is widely recognized for its sinuous compositions of abstract forms evocative of botanical and geological elements. Upon earning a B.F.A. in Painting with an Art History minor from the Savannah College of Art + Design in 1998, Pardue traveled extensively across the U.S., drawing inspiration from the varied regions and coasts of the South, Southwest, Pacific Northwest, and Northeast, as well as France and the Caribbean. After completing her M.F.A. in Painting in 2003 at Parsons School of Design in New York City, Pardue accepted a full-time faculty position at the University of Louisiana at Monroe, where she taught both studio and art history courses in the Department of Fine Arts. In 2006 she left the university to devote herself entirely to the cultivation of her work.

“I could say that I intimate a certain relationship between physical and spiritual space in my work, because in a sense that is true. Yet my approach to making a painting is not cerebral—it is intuitive and energetically fluid. My mind and body serve as a vehicle for transmuting universal creative energy into three-dimensional objects. Ultimately, I am most interested in extracting singular experiences—snapshots—from life’s infinite cycles of growth and decay, and in transforming the public, universal worlds of nature and human existence into sites of private knowledge.” – Meredith Pardue