Reginald Case
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Reginald Case (born December 23, 1937 in Watertown, NY) is a contemporary artist known for American Folk Art collages[1] and Hollywood iconographic mixed-media assemblages and sculptures. Case studied at the State University of New York at Buffalo, San Francisco State University and Boston University where he studied with Peter Busa, Robert Gwathmey and Walter Tandy Murch.[2] He received an MFA from Boston University and taught at Phillips Exeter Academy and Norfolk State College.
During this time, he completed a series of large still-life paintings which extended the imagery of Giorgio Morandi by elongating vessels and vases, transforming them into "architectonic towers".[3] The direct quality of the collage textures led him to abandon these paintings altogether and turn to collage as his next form of expression.[4] The Jewish Holocaust was a prevalent theme in Case’s early pieces – in these modest but masterfully executed and consistent works, Case has been compared to something of a graphic Edgar Allan Poe or Pier Paulo Pasolini by Ronald A. Kuchta, Director of the Everson Museum of Art.[5]
Case's 1980's-90's work in assemblage, collage and construction fused early influences in film, photography, and architecture.[6] Beginning with Rudolph Valentino from the 1920s through the 1930s with Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers and Buck Rogers, and into the 1940s with Betty Grable and Humphrey Bogart, Case culminated this body of work with a series of objects that focused on Marilyn Monroe.[7] Case continued with contemporary works of Barbie and Madonna (entertainer) that reflected the glamour of an earlier era.[8] In these there is an iconography of twentieth-century life that explores the imagery at the roots of American history and popular culture.[9][10] Additional works by Case have made oblique references to 9/11 in his series of Gouache Heads and 365 Views of Delray Beach[11]. Each of these series cast a shadow on the event as seen from a distance of TV or Photographic News images. Another recent series consists of Four Groups of Photo/Collage /Prints picturing Marilyn Monroe as " MARILYN MONEY" substituting for American currency.
His work was shown for many years at the Allan Stone Gallery, NYC, along with the paintings of Richard Estes and Wayne Thiebaud.[12] He has also had major museum exhibitions of his work shown at the Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY;[13] Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica,NY;[14] Reading Museum, Reading, PA;[15] and the Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond,VA. Case’s work is also represented in many private and public collections, including the Boston Museum Of Fine Art, Boston, MA; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.; The British Museum, London; The Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; The Jewish Museum, NYC; The Solomon R.Guggenheim Museum, NYC; The Victoria and Albert Museum, London; and others.
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[16] (1978) Art About Art, Jean Lipman, Richard Marshall
[17] (1993) Exhibition Catalog, "Reginald Case: Hollywood Without Politics" Statement by Robert Metzger, Director, Reading Museum, Reading, PA
[18] (1993) Exhibition Catalog, "Reginald Case: Hollywood Without Politics" Statement by Robert Metzger, Director, Reading Museum, Reading, PA
[19] (1985) The Collage Handbook, John & Joan Digby
[20](1978) Exhibition Catalog Statement, "Reginald Case Collages", Ronald Kuchta, Director, Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY
[21] (1993) American Artist, Brett Busang
[22] (2006) "Life as a Legend: Marilyn Monroe" statement, Wendy Blazier, Senior Curator, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL
[23] (1995) Art, Design, & Barbie, Valerie Steele
[24] (1989) American Icons, Farleigh Dickinson Univ., Madison, NJ
[25] (1997) Exhibition Catalog statement, Wendy McDaris, "Elvis & Marilyn 2 X Immortal"
[26] (1990) Capital Cities /ABC, Exhibition, NYC, Catalog of Exhibition
[27] (1978) Exhibition Catalog Statement, "Reginald Case Collages", Ronald Kuchta, Director, Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY
[28] (2001) Parks, J. "The Gouche Heads of Reginald Case", Watercolor Magazine, Fall.
[29] (2001) Gallery Camino Real. "365 VIEWS OF DELRAY BEACH".
[30] (1993) Exhibition Catalog, "Reginald Case: Hollywood Without Politics" Statement by Robert Metzger, Director, Reading Museum, Reading, PA
[edit] External links
- Artist's Page
- Garrison Art Center
- Jewish Museum
- Article: Victoria and Albert Museum, "Sonderbehandling (Special Treatment, Nazi Bureaucratic Term for Killing Prisoners", Tim Travis, Associate Curator, Word and Image Department, Victoria and Albert Museum London,UK
- http://www.askart.com/askart/c/reginald_case/reginald_case.aspx
- http://americanart.si.edu/search/artist_bio.cfm?ID=767
- http://www.artincontext.org/artist/artist_about.aspx?id=2356
- http://www.davidrumsey.com/amico/amico250590-7753.html
- Boston Museum of Fine Art
- The British Museum, London, UK
- Fogg Museum, Harvard University
- Memorial Art Gallery The University of Rochester
- Davison Art Center Wesleyan University
- Albright-Knox Art Gallery
- Renee Fotouhi Fine Art
