Laurie Reid
Laurie Reid (born 1964) is an American artist living in Berkeley, California. Early life and education She was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota and grew up in Eugene, Oregon. She attended Reed College in Portland, Oregon where she studied French Literature. She later moved to the Bay Area and earned an MFA at the California College of Arts and Crafts. Work In 1998 Reid won the SECA Award, which included an exhibition of her work at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 1999. 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. Reid was a close friend and collaborator of poet and writer Barbara Guest. Together they crea ...
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