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Jackie Reeves, Discipline and Passion
Jeffrey and Nancy Bilezikian, along with daughters Frida and Beatrice, the new owners of “Discipline and Passion.” rt doesn’t happen overnight. It takes time, something that painter Jackie Reeves counts in brush strokes. mural painting for corporate, private and public spaces. Since Reeves received her MFA, her work has been exhibited in museums and galleries throughout the A Jackie Reeves This year’s Pops by the Sea artist, Reeves spent several country, from Cape Cod to Vermont to Pennsylvania months in her Barnstable studio, drawing inspiration for to Washington DC to North Carolina. She has her 2017 commemorative painting from a likely source been featured in numerous publications, including – the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Listening to their the Boston Globe, Art New England, and Artscope music, Reeves channeled the orchestra’s sound into a rich Magazine, which named her one of the “25 artists that palette of colors, lines, and shapes. have captured our imagination.” It was a process of trial and error; on some days, she Reeves, who works out of Chalkboard Studio in placed abstract images onto paper. On other days, it Barnstable Village, uses drawing, painting, and collage was more concrete as Reeves crafted scenes of musicians to bring together figurative and abstract elements in her playing instruments. The final result is a stunning art. “I start my paintings abstractly and build up layers combination of the two, all wrapped up in the colorful, of thin paint, using methods that purposefully create creative vision of one of the Cape’s most dazzling unexpected results. By spilling, pouring, dragging, artists. pressing, and dripping paint, I am forcing myself to let Born and raised in Montreal, Reeves studied design go of control and allow the nature of the medium take art at Concordia University, graduating with a BFA in over,” she said. “It’s a dance between me and the paint, 1990. In 2012, she received her MFA in painting from a series of steps involving letting loose and reining in.
Massachusetts College of Art and Design. For me, this is a very exciting way to work because a
She arrived on Cape Cod in 1995 with her husband blank canvas becomes a road trip to somewhere I have
Bruce; the couple lives in Sandwich where they are never been before, a one-time-only experience that raising three daughters. stretches the limits of my imagination where anything
Reeves’s budding years were spent as a commercial can happen.” artist with a focus on graphic design, illustration, and
