Art Review
David Reed Went Where Lichtenstein Wouldn’t
He brought his optical preoccupations into the 21st century, without losing his love of artists from earlier eras.
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Can We Really See Art?
The longer I sat with the artworks in David Reed’s studio, the more I felt that I wasn’t fully seeing what was there.
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A Contemporary Master of the Brushstroke
David Reed has figured out how to bring illusionism back into an abstract painting while remaining committed to paint-as-paint.
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Back When Painting Was Dead
When Clement Greenberg, Frank Stella, and Donald Judd tried to define what makes a painting, they overlooked a central feature — capaciousness.
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David Reed Did Not Go Along with Those Who Threw the Baby Out with the Bathwater
Making a brushstroke painting in the mid-1970s — a decade after Greenberg, Stella, and Lichtenstein gleefully presided over its burial — was foolhardy and brave.
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The Enduring Power of Experimental Paintings from 1975
Working during a period when it was proclaimed from every quarter that painting was dead, Reed and a sizable New York cohort of like-minded artists carried on below the fray.
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When a Splotch Isn't Just a Splotch
This two-gallery extravaganza takes up the tricky gambit of featuring “artists whose work involves a methodical and controlled process of creating seemingly freeform or random daubs and spots.”
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David Reed’s Panorama
The last time David Reed showed paintings in New York was in 2007, nearly a decade ago.