Reed Hearne

Photography is not my principal aim but it is my primary tool.

I collect color, texture and design in my viewfinder from subjects that are often ordinary. Mental labels associated with the objects are discarded to form a digital painting that becomes its own subject. As Monet said, “To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at.”

I hope to uncover what is beautiful, intriguing, contemplative and singular behind the mundane. Because true art springs always from its history, I never lose sight of the masters who sought to forge new frames of reference.

Reed Hearne is an artist, photographer and published writer of fiction. He has lived most of his life in San Francisco where he earned a BFA in Graphic Design from the University of San Francisco and an MA in English from San Francisco State University.

During that period he interned with renowned art historian Carl Loeffler at La Mammelle. At that legendary Art Space he participated in chronicling the emerging international, contemporary art scene blossoming on the West Coast in tandem with technology and the internet.

Reed thinks way too long and hard about things like whether or not to write this bio in the first person (too personal?) or the customary third person (too businesslike). He wants his art to have universal appeal, to bridge the gap between art and commerce, to be collected and prized by both professional designers and fine art collectors. When his brain starts to wrestle itself into a twist over whether such a thing is even possible, he gives up trying to pick a side and gets back to work creating visuals that intentionally defy categorization.

In 2007 he returned to Arizona where he has deep family roots that go back to the pioneer settling of the West.

"Elementary" at Moscow International Foto Awards-Na Kashirke Gallery-Moscow-July 20 thru August 7 2016.