Laurie Reid (born 1964) is an American artist living in Berkeley, California.
Laurie Reid | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1964 (age 59–60) Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S. |
| Occupation | Painter |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | California College of the Arts Reed College |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Art |
| Institutions | San Francisco Art Institute |
Early life and education
editShe was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota[1] and grew up in Eugene, Oregon.[2] She attended Reed College in Portland, Oregon where she studied French Literature.[2] She later moved to the Bay Area and earned an MFA at the California College of Arts and Crafts.[1]
Work
editIn 1998 Reid won the SECA Award, which included an exhibition of her work at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 1999.[3] Reid's work was included in the Whitney Biennial in 2000. Reid works in both expansive and more limited canvases: In the above exhibitions she displayed large works (5 to 16-foot long watercolors) with very little color on them. In 2001, she collaborated with Crown Point Press on a series of etchings measured in inches rather than feet. Many of the etchings comprise simple drops of color arranged in space.[4]
Reid was a close friend and collaborator of poet and writer Barbara Guest. Together they created and published the book Symbiosis in 2000.[2]
Reid's work makes use of gravity (what she refers to as "chance")[4] upon the physical materials, sometimes like sculpture.[5] An art writer described this as "She lets the paint affect the paper in whatever way it will, and the result is a billowing, textured surface."[6] Reid has said: "I do sometimes use a grid, and other formal constructs, but there’s always the human hand involved. Psyche, material, form—it is a concoction that has to be brewed just right."[4]
As of 2017, she teaches at the San Francisco Art Institute.[7]
Reid's work is included in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The National Gallery of Art, Washington DC; The Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles; The San Francisco Museum of Art, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) among others.[8]
References
edit- ^ a b Kim, Bennet. "Laurie Reid Biography". Crown Point Press. Retrieved 2017-03-25.
- ^ a b c Dienstfrey, Patrica; Rosenwasser, Rena (2007). "A Conversation on Symbiosis". Chicago Review. 53 (1/2): 144–151 – via Art Source.
- ^ San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (1998). "SECA Art Award 1998: Chris Finley, Gay Outlaw, Laurie Reid, Rigo 98". 1998 SECA Art Award Catalog: 13–16.
- ^ a b c Brown, Kathan (January 2001). "Overview - Laurie Reid" (PDF).
- ^ SECA Art Award 1998: Chris Finley, Gay Outlaw, Laurie Reid, Rigo 98. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. 1998. p. 14.
- ^ DeLuca, Andie (2005). "Laurie Reid at Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery". Artweek. 35 no10: 21.
- ^ "SFAI Visiting Faculty: Laurie Reid".
- ^ "Morgan Lehman Gallery: Laurie Reid".