David Reed (US, b. 1946)

David Reed
(American, b. 1946)

"Untitled"

monotype
signed and dated "1987" lower right, verso with "Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA" gallery label.
Float-mounted, glazed and framed.
sheet 21" x 88", framed 26-1/2" x 92-1/4"

Provenance: Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, Santa Barbara, California; Private collection, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Notes: "We are used to observing ourselves from both inside and outside our bodies simultaneously. Baroque painting dealt with these out-of-body sensations as religious experiences, sometimes ecstatic, sometimes terrifying; today we live such experiences, often unexamined, through images on screens, as a part of our everyday lives." - David Reed

For more than 40 years, David Reed has pushed the boundaries of painting. Working in broad horizontal and sometimes vertical formats that recall contemporary film screens and celluloid strips, he explores interior/exterior and positive/negative spaces through an expressionist fluid form. Working wet into wet through broad and looping strokes, especially through the monotype media, he is able to explore light, speed and gestural tension through the forces of the process that bi-sect the picture plane and press pigment from a glass or acrylic refractive surface onto paper, creating alternative perspectives of light and space. Reed's works have been exhibited extensively in Germany, Zurich and New York with a recent, impressive exhibit at Gagosian in New York, where his works have been represented through the years.
Condition Report: In overall very good condition with no visible losses, toning, foxing or repairs. Paper has some light buckling consistent with a float-mount frame. There is a faint scratch on the acrylic/Plexiglass.