David Reed (artist)
David Reed (b. San Diego, California, 1946) is a noted contemporary American conceptual and visual artist.
Art
David Reed is especially well known as a strong colorist of long, narrow abstract paintings on canvas that are hung either lengthwise or vertically and feature several images closely resembling enlarged photographs of swirling brushstrokes juxtaposed in a single painting[1]. Multitalented, besides being a fine arts painter, he is also an installation sculptor[2], a video artist [3], a lecturer on contemporary art and art history, and an exhibition curator[4]. He initiated and advised the influential “High Times, Hard Times: New York Painting 1967-1975” exhibit curated by Katy Siegel at the National Academy of Design in New York City in 2007[5]. He has a great fondness for the art from the Baroque and works by Degas and Delacroix [6].
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 on a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship in 1967. 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, the city where he currently lives and works. [7].
David Reed is the recipient of many awards, including a Roswell Museum and Art Center grant, a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, and a National Endowment for the Arts Visual Arts Fellowship.
He is represented by the Max Protetch Gallery in New York, the Galerie Schmidt Maczollek in Cologne, Germany, the Galerie Bob Van Orsouw in Zurich, Switzerland, and the Galerie Renos Xippas in Paris, France. [8].
Museum Collections
David Reed’s works of art are included in numerous private and public collections around the world, including the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington D.C., the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, Virginia, the Kresge Art Museum at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan, and the Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, in St. Gallen, Switzerland[9].
References
- ^ Review of gallery exhibit in the New York Times by Michael Kimmelman
- ^ David Reed in AskArt
- ^ Review of David Reed’s retrospective at P.S.1 Contemporary Arts Centerin Queens by John Haber
- ^ 2008 interview with David Reed in the Oregonian
- ^ Review of High Times, Hard Times in the New York Times by Roberta Smith
- ^ David Reed in AskArt
- ^ 2008 interview with David Reed in the Oregonian
- ^ David Reed’s biography at Max Protetch Gallery
- ^ David Reed’s art in Artcyclopedia