Paul Reed (artist)

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Paul Reed was born in Washington DC and currently resides in the Virginia suburbs outside of DC. He attended and graduated from both San Diego State College in San Diego, CA and the Corcoran School of Art in Washington DC. Reed’s group show debut was in 1958 in the Watkins Gallery, American University. He and a few of his select his contemporary peers made a splash in a 1965 group show at the Washington Gallery of Modern Art entitled The Washington Color Painters. Also called the Washington Color School , this group had a profound influence in the abstract arena and the pushing of artistic boundaries from mid-century forward. His first solo show was in January of 1963 at the Adams-Morgan Gallery in Washington, DC. In November of that same year, he had another solo show in the East Hampton Gallery in New York City.

From 1962 to 1971 Paul Reed served as Art Director for the U.S. Peace Corps after which he joined the Corcoran School of Art in the position of Assistant Professor. In the mean time, he was featured in several dozen group and solo exhibitions including:

Selected Group Exhibitions

1964 Museum of Modern Art, New York City

1965 Institute of Modern Art, Washington, DC

1965 Art Institute of Chicago 25th Annual Exhibition of the Society of American Art

1965 Phoenix Museum, Inaugural Exhibition

1965-66 Washington Gallery of Modern Art, circulated to: University of Texas Art Galleries, Austin TX Art Gallery, University of California at Santa Barbara, CA Rose Art Galleries, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN

1966 John Heron Art Museum

1966 Des Moines Art Center, Op Art

1966 National Collection of Fine Arts - The Hard Edge Trend White House Rotation Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Recent Acquisitions Exhibition

1966 American Embassy in Damascus Exhibition

1967 Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa OK – Collectors Choice VII

1967 Visual Arts Gallery, New York City – Homage to Morandi

1967 Corcoran Gallery of Art, Recent Acquisitions

1968 Comprehensive Survey National Collection of Fine Arts

1968 the Jefferson Place Ten Years, Washington, DC

1968 Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK – East Coast-West Coast Paintings

1969 Wadsworth Athanaeum in Hartford, CT – Inaugural Exhibtion

1969 Steinberg Gallery of Art, Washington University], St. Louis, MO - The Development of Modern Painting, Jackson Pollack to Present

1969 The Westmoreland County Museum of Art, 10th Anniversary Exhibition

1969 University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

1969 Dec. Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL – The Washington Painters

1970 Feb. Jacksonville Art Museum, Jacksonville, FL - The Washington Painters

1970 May Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD – Washington Twenty Years

1970 Jul. Colorado Springs Fine Art Center - New Accessions USA

1971 Jan. Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washinngton, DC – Melzac Collection

2000-2002 Multiple-Venue Tour in Modernism and Abstraction; Treasutres from the Smithsonian American Art Museum

Selected Solo Shows

1964 Jan. Jefferson Place Gallery, Washington, DC

1964 Dec. East Hampton Gallery, New York City

1966 Jan. Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

1966 Apr. East Hampton Gallery, New York City

1966 Aug East Hampton Gallery, New York City

1967 Mar. Steinberg Gallery of Art, Washington University, St. Louis, MO

1967 Nov. Jefferson Place Gallery, Washington, DC

1967 Nov. Bertha Schaefer Gallery, New York City

1970 U.S. Peace Corps, Washington, DC

1971 Apr. Matthews Center, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

1971 May Northern Virginia Community College, Annandale, VA

1971 Oct. Pyramid Gallery, Washington, DC

1971 Dec. Bertha Schaefer Gallery, New York City

1973 Feb. Pyramid Gallery, Washington, DC

1976 Aug. Chilmark Gallery, Martha’s Vineyard (Edgerton, MA)

1977 Jan. Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ

1978 Mar. Yares Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ

1979 Mar. Yares Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ

1979 Dec. Yares Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ

1981 Apr. Yares Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ

1982 Mar-Apr WPA (Washington Project for the Arts) , Washington, DC

1997 Feb. Watkins Gallery, Washington, DC

1997 Nov. the Arts Club of Washington, Washington, DC

Paul Reed is also in more than 50 public collections including: the Detroit Institute of Art in Detroit MI; Emory University in Atlanta, GA; the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculptural Garden in Washington, DC; the National Museum of Art in Washington, DC; the Phoenix Museum of Art in Phoenix, AZ; the Santa Barbara Museum in Santa Barbara CA; and the Wadsworth Athanaeum in Hartford, CT.

BIBLIOGRAPHY - Paul Reed’s work is cited in the following publications:

Who’s Who in America 1976-1997

Who’s Who in American Art 1973-1997

The Dictionary of Art (MacMillan Co., London 1989)

L’Avant Garde Abtraite L’Art Americain de 1950 a 1970 “Nouvelle Abtraction” – Claudine Humblet, Bruxelles

The National Museum of American Art, Interactive CD ROM, 1995

Additional Information

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