EDDIE REED
SINCE 1966
I knew I wanted to be recognized as a professional artist when I won a local contest sponsored by my hometown radio station looking for a new logo. I was then in the sixth grade. About that same time my mother enrolled me in a local arts program for kids, the Living Arts Center. I received many compliments from my peers and teacher for my drawing skills. That was a big self-esteem boost. With a pencil I could faithfully reproduce anything. I was especially found of scientific illustrations, which I practiced copying from a set of encyclopedias. I found myself spending hours upon hours copying the illustrations in those books with my colored pencils… It was in those daily-drawing activities that I learned about.
EDDIE REED
SINCE 1966
I knew I wanted to be recognized as a professional artist when I won a local contest sponsored by my hometown radio station looking for a new logo. I was then in the sixth grade. About that same time my mother enrolled me in a local arts program for kids, the Living Arts Center. I received many compliments from my peers and teacher for my drawing skills. That was a big self-esteem boost. With a pencil I could faithfully reproduce anything. I was especially found of scientific illustrations, which I practiced copying from a set of encyclopedias. I found myself spending hours upon hours copying the illustrations in those books with my colored pencils…
It was in those daily-drawing activities that I learned about.
“The secret sauce of my art making is to convey with honesty the realities of human relations through dialogue using contemporary art practices, but not so full of domesday that it hinders seeing new paths for the future… “ Eddie Reed
Art is an ongoing conversation between human beings
My art strives to spark “meaning of life” conversations through the use of social realist storytelling, color-rich action painting, and sacred symbolism, that question America’s social constructs and contradictory moods concerning Race and power,
Commentary on the folly relying on aggression as one’s primary tool of debate.
Note: Coyotes are a holy creature. However, they symbolize a trickster deity. This spirit is mischievous, selfish, deceitful, and greedy.
Commentary on the anonymity of poor and dispossessed in our capitalist culture
Symbols Interpretation: The Shaman Star is a Native American symbol used by majority of tribe shamans to indicate his/her position. It is also commonly referred to as the North Star emblematic of better days ahead. The Horned Serpent also a Native American symbol (Plain State Tribes) represents a undefeated spirit as well as personal renewal of spirit shedding the past, boldly striding into the future. Other graffiti iconography taken directly from the street, speaks to being in the presents of a rebel about to take it to another level.
Commentary On The Courage And The Strife To Speak Up And Stand Out.
Art is an ongoing conversation between human beings
My art strives to spark “meaning of life” conversations through the use of social realist storytelling, color-rich action painting, and sacred symbolism, that question America’s social constructs and contradictory moods concerning Race and power,
Commentary on the courage and the strife to speak up and stand out.
Commentary on the Nation’s
Summer of Strife
Commentary on the Nation’s
Summer of Strife
Commentary on the Nation’s
Summer of Strife
Commentary on the the consequences of the current pandemic narrative, allowing uninformed hysteria to stand in for informed fact.
HELLO, MY NAME IS
Commentary on the rising tide of homelessness. What does it say about us when our nation can spend 10b for building a telescope for space exploration but can’t provide affordable housing and get good people out of tents ?
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Commentary on the the consequences of the current pandemic narrative, allowing uninformed hysteria to stand in for informed fact.
HELLO, MY NAME IS
Commentary on the rising tide of homelessness. What does it say about us when our nation can spend 10b for building a telescope for space exploration but can’t provide affordable housing and get good people out of tents ?
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Rising Son
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