Shared Machinery

In Shared Machinery, Vermont-born painter Brian Jude Reardon presents a series of figurative oil paintings that celebrate the enduring character of vintage vehicles, rural industry, and the visual language of New England. Drawing from tractors, steamrollers, microcars, boats, roadside businesses, and classic automobiles, Reardon renders these familiar forms with precise draftsmanship and an unmistakable sense of affection. Painted in oil on canvas, each work balances realism with warmth, transforming everyday machines into quiet portraits infused with memory, place, and personality.

Rooted in New England’s working landscape and shaped by a lifelong engagement with design and drawing, Reardon’s paintings evoke shared cultural nostalgia without sentimentality. His subjects—Farmall tractors, VW Bugs, Airstream-like forms, and weathered roadside scenes—serve as anchors to personal and collective history. Through layered color, confident composition, and energetic brushwork, Shared Machinery connects the timeless appeal of rural Americana with contemporary figurative painting, offering collectors an accessible yet deeply considered vision of objects that endure