Digital artist talk with Starr Hardridge (Muscogee Creek Nation)

Friday, Oct. 2 | “Disappearing Earth/Invisible Sky” by Starr Hardridge (Muscogee Creek Nation)

Join artist Starr Hardridge on Oct. 2, from 1-2 p.m. (CST), for a discussion about southeastern contemporary Native pointillism in the time of a pandemic.

Register on Zoom for Starr’s digital artist talk: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_SkH916_mRS6cK6oVRLNRkA

Starr Hardridge is an enrolled member of the Muscogee Creek Nation. His works are an assemblage of pointillism and a Southeastern Woodlands beadwork aesthetic. Starr uses bold colors and geometric shapes to create modern works inspired by Muscogee patterns and designs. Through pattern, texture, and dream-like reverie, his work is a sensory journey of candy-coated hues and meticulously executed textures. Even serious contemplative themes are handled with a delicate mix of reverence and whimsy.

"I draw inspiration from all things in nature and I try to make connections from the past to the present with an assemblage of multicolor paint dots,” Starr said. “I use pointillism as a means to express a "beaded surface" in which I narrate relationships and archetypes of the human condition."

Starr received a BFA in illustration and painting from Savannah College of Art and Design. He continued his studies at a one-year residency in Penne D’Agenais France at the Nadai Verdon Atelier of Decorative Arts.

Visit starrhardridge.com for more artist information.