EDDIE REED
SINCE 1966
I am painting for a general audience about societal themes effecting us all, issues America continues to face that prevent us from addressing newer and equally insidious threats to humanity—and too our own survival.
My work has always reflected the deep interest in important but overlooked histories. In particular a longstanding engagement with issues of race, gender identity, social class, poverty. All often not reflected in America’s art history.
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
Limei Lai interviews contemporary northwest artist
Eddie Reed Blackfish Gallery Portland Oregon
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.
Who Will Save Me
Size: 40 x 30inches
acrylic/ mixed medium on wood board.. commentary on the danger of our ambivalence toward our ocean environment.
Commentary on the the consequences of the current pandemic narrative, allowing uninformed hysteria to stand in for informed fact.
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 innocences lost in the face of America’s unchecked gun culture.
Medium: acrylic/mixed medium on wood board
Commentary on the innocences lost in the face of America’s unchecked gun culture.
Acrylic/ mix medium on wood board
Commentary on America’s for profit prison system
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 ?
40x30in
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 ?
40x30in
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