Kristina Pardue

2 Fonda Place
Santa Fe, NM 87508
505-466-2279
415-290-6984
e-mail: kp@pardueduran.com

Abstract, surreal, expressionist, landscape paintings
using glyphs and allegories

Paintings • Sculpture • Prints & Drawings
Artwork Available For Purchase Online

Born:     Boulder, Colorado 1967

 

Artist Registries/ Links

Education

  • University of Virginia, 1989: BA Interdisciplinary, Echols Scholar, Concentration in Printmaking & Sculpture
  • San Francisco Art Institute, 1994: BFA Painting

Short Films

  • “The Thing in the Garden” (1993), 3 min. super-8 animation references fiction by Aleister Crowley, exploring the psychology of fear and the power of the will (Moonchild, 1917).
  • ”Jackie Remembers the Battle for Bull Run,” (2003), 4-min. digital film.
  • "Missouri," (2007, in progress), a film narrative montage of a failed family migration from Mississippi to Texas in the late 1800s.

Exhibitions/ Commissions

In the San Francisco Bay Area, I have presented at the Berkeley Art Center, exhibited in Pt. Reyes and Tomales, and made a 1995 guest appearance at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. I have had two-person shows at the Diego Rivera Gallery in 1994, and the Marshall Art Gallery in 1998, and group shows at Gallery Luscombe and the Bucheon Gallery. My artwork has been shown in benefit auctions held at Catherine Clark Gallery, SOMArt Gallery, and Fort Mason in San Francisco. In 2000, I presented my work in a video exchange between Bay Area artists and Maori artists of New Zealand as part of Te Atinga's Te Ra Festival at Toihoukura in Gisborne, New Zealand.

I make my home today in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with my husband, a hard-edge abstract painter, and our 8 yr old son and 1 yr old daughter.

Commissioned work includes a 14-foot mural in the home of the Dean of the Philosophy Department, University of Virginia, and an al seco panel for Daryl Rush Builders, Piedmont, California. My paintings and sculptures are held in many private collections, including that of a Navy SEALS Special Boat Commander, of international sound art composer, Guillermo Galindo, and of tattoo artist, author, and curator Don Ed Hardy. Recently, the Hotel Del Coronado in Coronado, California purchased the painting "Scrimshaw" to hang in its newly renovated dining facilities.

 

For more information, please write: kp@pardueduran.com

Artwork Available For Purchase Online

(above) Microcosmos
etching, aquatint, gouache, 10" x 14", 1988
© Kristina Pardue

(below) String Theory
oil on maple panel, 23" x 23" , 1998
© Kristina Pardue