Hearne Pardee’s Landscaping, a selection of recent paintings and collages, reflects his transition from the West Coast to the Hudson Valley, from the sidewalk gardens of suburban California to a new studio and its cultivated landscape. It also culminates fifty years of work from landscape, abstraction and collage. Combining work from observation with photographs, Pardee maps his new surroundings, locating himself in views from different cardinal points and at different seasons. Collaged colored papers introduce spatial dislocations and emphasize the elusive character of everyday perception. Exuberant, improvisatory collages give way to paintings that incorporate the stabilizing intervention of a landscape architect.

Pardee incorporates the architecture of the studio and views from its windows, from which curvilinear contours of paths and flower beds map the total space of his environment. Within the studio, Pardee extends this process of spatio-temporal “infolding” by composing four-part compositions of opposing views, and he extends it by incorporating mobius strips, which combine two and three dimensions on their continuous surfaces. These strips lend “infolding” three-dimensional relief. Pardee also paints bowls of water set next to rocks, the dual components of Asian landscape painting. Posed against abstracted landscapes from both California and the Hudson, the transparent curves of the glass bowl echo those of the garden and the mobius strips. Gazing envisions this process as an all-inclusive abstraction, while Lawn, a recent painting from observation, superimposes Pardee’s backyard view of the Catskills onto an iconic suburban motif from California.

Pardee’s collages have evolved over the years but they retain the character of things just noticed, reflecting their origins as papers pinned to the wall. In his last show, Pardee printed collages on vinyl and displayed them on the gallery floor, where they provided the context for a dance performance. Here, he extends that bodily engagement and temporal immediacy with new prints placed on the floor.