Starr Hardridge is an enrolled member of the Muscogee Creek Nation and was reared throughout central Oklahoma. His work uses an assemblage of pointillism and a Southeastern woodland beadwork aesthetic. As a child, he taught himself how to draw from the paintings hanging on his wall. “I didn’t have anyone to open the door for me. I had to carve my own path and find my own identity, and part of that was to develop a new style and be brave enough to paint images that were true to my heart, that I didn’t know would sell,” Hardridge says. Schooled in traditional disciplines of classical art, his style continues to evolve with an abstracted symbolism influenced by a search for balance. Hardridge received a bachelor of fine arts degree in illustration and painting from the Savannah College of Art and Design, and he then continued his studies with a one-year residency in Penne D’Agenais, France, at the Nadai Verdon Atelier of Decorative Arts. His bold use of color and geometry wields a modern twist inspired by Muscogee patterns and designs.NEW COPY HERE.

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