Artist Biography

Hadley Radt lives and works in Rohnert Park, CA. Radt received her MFA from California College of the Arts in 2017 with a BFA from Sonoma State University in 2014. Radt has received numerous awards including the Ginny Kleker Commitment to Art Award, and the Edwin Anthony & Adalaine Boudreaux Cagodan Scholarship in 2016. Radt’s artwork is exhibited extensively in public and private collections throughout the bay area including a mural at the Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, CA, and the California College of the Arts in San Francisco, CA.

Artist Statement:

“My paintings explore the connection between systems in our environment and how they relate to my own impulse to construct order. The structures I develop eventually create a woven pattern of overlapping and intertwining shapes and lines. The marks become a visual network of intricate systems and patterns that I build and deconstruct by establishing a logic and method.

As I attempt to formulate routines of order in my pieces, the patterns start to become tangled, creating environments of organized chaos. Mistakes occur within the mark making, and my hand can be seen. I intentionally and unintentionally interrupt the systems I build, causing unexpected glitches that break the pattern and force the work to appear less mechanical.

I am inspired by examples of repetition and geometry in both natural and man-made environments. Including maps, architecture, fractals, particle formations, and neural networks. Our universe is full of repetition and pattern; I am intrigued by all the different kinds of order surrounding us, which influence the structures I create in my work.”