Born in San Diego, California in 1946, David Reed was inspired to study art by an undergraduate teacher, then attended the Studio School in New York and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine, eventually establishing a studio in New York. With his abstract compositions, he explores conscious and unconscious time in addition to human emotions. Reed's intense color palettes are compared to the religious lighting of the Baroque period. The viewer's eye perceives movement in Reed's elongated paintings, therefore they evoke the feeling of a cinematic view that flows in a certain direction, just as a stroke is repeated from picture to picture, which creates the impression of an apparition or a composite picture. In addition to painting, he also creates installations and video art, and is also involved in teaching.
Sources of photographs: AMT News, Gagosian, Art Forum, CityPulse
1946
Born in San Diego, California.
1966-1968
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, but also with Mercedes Matter and Esteban Vicente, while he was a 1967 Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship . He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Reed College in Portland, Oregon.
1970-present
David Reed's artwork is included in many private and public collections around the world, including the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York, the Birmingham Museum of Art in Birmingham, Alabama, the Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas at Austin in Austin, Texas, Center Georges Pompidou in Paris, Chase Manhattan Bank in New York and many others.
