John Goodrich reviews a recent exhibition of works by Hearne Pardee at Bowery Gallery, New York.

Goodrich writes: “When artists share their process, they usually call our attention to particularly evocative materials and techniques. Pardee, however, focuses on a different kind of process, one that’s arguably even more fundamental to visual experience: the challenges of seeing and reconstructing. His paintings and collages eloquently remind us that while all art is artifice, it’s far more than a system of signs; it’s rooted in primal, optical experience, and it convinces according to its own internal rhythms.”