ABOUT THE ARTIST

Reed Hearne is an artist, photographer, and published writer of Fiction. At the age of nineteen, he left Phoenix, Arizona, to live most of his life in California. In San Francisco, where he lived for thirty years, 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 early 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. During the nineties and early millennium, he concentrated on writing and published a dozen short stories in literary journals, both in print and online.
In 2007, he returned to the Sonoran Desert, where he has deep family roots that go back to the pioneer West. This full circle geographical return is perhaps what instigated a spiritual return to fine art, which remains his first love and passion.
Reed’s photography has been exhibited in galleries and group shows. His prints are included in public and private collections around the world.
The instinct to elaborate through intuition and an evolving process of trial and error is as fundamental to my art as the resulting image. Creating, for me, is always organic and never contrived. The subject matter of the result usually has nothing to do with that of the original images. My search is for subjective, emotional imagery that emerges through a unique work process of digital
manipulation applied to photography. I only use images I’ve captured myself, and I don’t employ AI programs. Individual works often take 30 to 40 hours to complete. I hope my work is about questioning the way we look at things. Not the way we think about things, but literally the way we see.