Laurie Reid (born 1964) is an American artist living in
Berkeley, California
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.
Early life and education
She was born in
Minneapolis, Minnesota and grew up in
Eugene, Oregon.
She attended
Reed College
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in
Portland, Oregon
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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
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in 1999. Reid's work was included in the
Whitney Biennial
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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 created and published the book ''Symbiosis'' in 2000.
Reid's work makes use of gravity (what she refers to as "chance")
upon the physical materials, sometimes like sculpture. 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." 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."
As of 2017, she teaches at the
San Francisco Art Institute.
Reid's work is included in the collections of The
Museum of Modern Art
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It plays a major role in developing and collecting modern art, and is often identified as one of ...
, New York; The
Whitney Museum of American Art
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, 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.
References
External links
Official websiteMorgan Lehman Gallery: Laurie ReidCrown Point Press - Laurie Reid BiographyCrown Point Press Newsletter 2001: Overview - Laurie ReidYoutube video: Laurie Reid at Crown Point PressBAMPFA - Laurie Reid - Psych: R & R
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1964 births
Living people
American women painters
American contemporary painters
California College of the Arts alumni
Reed College alumni
San Francisco Art Institute faculty
Artists from Eugene, Oregon
Artists from Berkeley, California
21st-century American women artists
American women academics