David Reed (artist)

David Reed

Painting #580 by David Reed, 2006-2008
Born 1946[1]
San Diego
Nationality American
Education Reed College, New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
Known for Painting

David Reed (born 1946) is a contemporary American conceptual and visual artist.

Art

Painting #576 by David Reed, 2007

David Reed is known as a colorist and for creating long, narrow abstract paintings on canvas that are hung either lengthwise or vertically and feature several images resembling enlarged photographs of swirling brushstrokes juxtaposed in a single painting.[2] Reed's paintings are engaged in a crossover between film, the electronic media and everyday culture. Besides being a fine arts painter, he is also an installation sculptor,[3] a video artist,[4] a lecturer on contemporary art and art history, and an exhibition curator.[5] He has a fondness for the art from the Baroque and works by Degas and Delacroix.[3]

Vertigo Project

In discussing paintings by John McLaughlin, the artist and dealer Nicholas Wilder once remarked to David Reed that owners of his paintings often move them into their bedrooms, in order to live with them more intimately. Reed saw in this practice his own aspiration to be a "bedroom painter." For his project "Two Bedrooms in San Francisco," Reed inserted images of his paintings into scenes from Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo (film), which take place in the bedrooms of the film's two main characters, Judy and Scottie. The modified film clips run continuously on television monitors as part of ensembles, which include life-size replicas of the two beds as they appear in the film and the very paintings that had been inserted in the film.[6]

High Times, Hard Times: New York Painting 1967-1975

David Reed was the adviser for the exhibition High Times, Hard Times: New York Painting 1967-1975 curated by Katy Siegel, which traveled to Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Greensboro in North Carolina from August 6 to October 15, 2006; Katzen Arts Center at American University in Washington, D.C. from November 21, 2006 to January 21, 2007; National Academy of Design in New York City from February 15 to April 22, 2007; Tamayo Contemporary Art Museum in Mexico City from May 25 to September 9, 2007; Neue Galerie Graz in Graz from December 14, 2007 to February 24, 2008; and Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe in Karlsruhe from March 28 to June 1, 2008.[7]

Life

David Reed grew up in California. He attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Skowhegan, Maine in 1966 and the New York Studio School in New York, where he studied primarily with Milton Resnick as well as Mercedes Matter and Esteban Vicente while on a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship in 1967.[8] He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Reed College in Portland, Oregon in 1968. After getting his degree, he moved to New York City and, though he wasn't officially enrolled at the New York Studio School at the time, he attended Philip Guston's seminar there and continued to participate in other activities at the school.[8] He has lived and worked in the city continuously since 1971.[5] In 1969 he had a son, the novelist John Reed. Currently he is together with the artist Lillian Ball. His uncle O.P., aunt Rosemary, and great-uncle August Biehle, were all painters. As a gallerist, O.P. discovered John McLaughlin (artist), later a great influence on Reed as a teenager.[9]

David Reed is the recipient of many awards, including the Roswell Museum and Art Center grant, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, the National Endowment for the Arts Visual Arts Fellowship, and the Ursula Blickle Foundation Art Award.

He is represented by Galerie Anke Schmidt in Cologne, Germany, Häusler Contemporary in Zurich, Switzerland, and Galerie Renos Xippas in Paris, France. His works on paper are represented by Peter Blum Gallery in New York.[10]

Museum Collections

Painting #90 by David Reed, 1975. Collection of the Guggenheim Museum, New York City.

David Reed’s works of art are included in numerous private and public collections around the world, including the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York, Birmingham Museum of Art in Birmingham, Alabama, the Blanton Museum of Art of the University of Texas at Austin in Austin, Texas, Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, Chase Manhattan Bank in New York City, Cincinnati Art Museum in Ohio, Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., Daros Collection in Zürich, Diözesanmuseum in Freising, Fonds National d'Art Contemporain in Paris, Fonds Régional d'Art Contemporain Auvergne in France, General Mills in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., Kaiser Wilhelm Museum in Krefeld, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen in St. Gallen, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein in Vaduz, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebæk, Denmark, the Maslow Collection in Shavertown, Pennsylvania, Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt am Main, MUMOK in Vienna, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego in San Diego, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, Neues Museum Nürnberg in Nuremberg, Reed College in Portland, Oregon, Rose Art Museum of Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, Roswell Museum and Art Center in Roswell, New Mexico, Goetz Collection in Munich, Tel Aviv Museum of Art in Tel Aviv, Ulrich Museum of Art of Wichita State University in Wichita, Kansas, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, Virginia, and Weatherspoon Art Gallery of University of North Carolina at Greensboro in Greensboro, North Carolina.[11]

Publications

References

  1. ↑ orsouw.artgalleries.ch
  2. ↑ Review of gallery exhibit in the New York Times by Michael Kimmelman
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 David Reed in AskArt
  4. ↑ Review of David Reed’s retrospective at P.S.1 Contemporary Arts Centerin Queens by John Haber
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 2008 interview with David Reed in the Oregonian
  6. ↑ "Bedside Manner," Artforum, Summer, 1999 by Arthur Coleman Danto
  7. ↑ High Times, Hard Times on David Reed's official site
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Art Journal
  9. ↑ Bui, Phong. "David Reed In Conversation with Phong Bui". The Brooklyn Rail. Retrieved 3/7/12. Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  10. ↑ Gallery list on David Reed’s official website
  11. ↑ David Reed at Galerie Xippas.
  12. ↑ “Painting Today” in the Phaidon store
  13. ↑ “Rock Paper Scissors” on Amazon.com
  14. ↑ "You Look Good in Blue" on Amazon
  15. ↑ "Heart of Glass" at Book Depository.com

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