"The movement is what is important. It reveals the gesture of the human body." -David Reed (1946 - )
Reed's early paintings indicated the undeniable presence of the human/artist by the individual stroke of the brush. With intimate ties to the American Abstract Expressionist movement, he was driven to define art through the aura aura of the artist. He chose not to throw himself violently into his paintings, however (as per Jackson Pollock) but to manifest he, the artist, in every painting through the simple, methodical movement of the brush across the canvas. Each stroke, with its beginning and end, implies the movement of the artist's hand in the gestural movement of the paint as the brush drug it across the canvas.
"The language of these works is the language of the body." - Paul Auster on David Reed
"[I had a moment] when I realized how much the way I saw the landscape was affected by the movies." -David Reed
Reed's early paintings indicated the undeniable presence of the human/artist by the individual stroke of the brush. With intimate ties to the American Abstract Expressionist movement, he was driven to define art through the aura aura of the artist. He chose not to throw himself violently into his paintings, however (as per Jackson Pollock) but to manifest he, the artist, in every painting through the simple, methodical movement of the brush across the canvas. Each stroke, with its beginning and end, implies the movement of the artist's hand in the gestural movement of the paint as the brush drug it across the canvas.
"The language of these works is the language of the body." - Paul Auster on David Reed
"[I had a moment] when I realized how much the way I saw the landscape was affected by the movies." -David Reed
