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David Reed
Painting #580 by David Reed, 2006-2008
NationalityAmerican
EducationReed College, New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
Known forPainting

David Reed (b. San Diego, California, 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]. In his art Reed is 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 initiated and advised the exhibition “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[6]. 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.[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 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.[5]. In 1969 he had a son, the novelist John Reed. Currently he is together with the artist Lillian Ball.

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 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

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.[9]

Further reading

  • Yau, John (December 2007-January 2008). "David Reed,". The Brooklyn Rail. brooklynrail.org. Retrieved 2009-07-14. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  • Brennan, Michael (December 2004-January 2005). "David Reed". The Brooklyn Rail. brooklynrail.org. Retrieved 2009-07-14. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)

References

  1. ^ www.orsouw.artgalleries.ch/file/reed_biography.pdf
  2. ^ Review of gallery exhibit in the New York Times by Michael Kimmelman
  3. ^ a b David Reed in AskArt
  4. ^ Review of David Reed’s retrospective at P.S.1 Contemporary Arts Centerin Queens by John Haber
  5. ^ a b 2008 interview with David Reed in the Oregonian
  6. ^ Review of High Times, Hard Times in the New York Times by Roberta Smith
  7. ^ http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0268/is_10_37/ai_55015164/?tag=content;col1 "Bedside Manner," Artforum, Summer, 1999 by Arthur Coleman Danto
  8. ^ David Reed’s biography at Max Protetch Gallery
  9. ^ David Reed at Galerie Xippas.
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