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TOM R EE D this is the before
bruno david gallery
Tom Reed this is the before
February 29 - April 18, 2020 Bruno David Gallery 7513 Forsyth Boulevard Saint Louis, Missouri 63105, U.S.A. info@brunodavidgallery.com www.brunodavidgallery.com Founder/Director: Bruno L. David This catalogue was published in conjunction with the exhibition “this is the before” at Bruno David Gallery. Editor: Bruno L. David Catalogue Designer: Lily Hollinden Designer Assistant: Claudia R. David Printed in USA All works courtesy of Tom Reed and Bruno David Gallery Photographs by Bruno David Gallery Cover image: night path (detail), 2019. Mixed media on Muslin on paper, 24 x 28 in. (61 x 71.1 cm) © 2020 Tom Reed First Edition Copyright ©2020 Tom Reed and Bruno David Gallery All Rights Reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form without the written permission of Bruno David Gallery
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INTRODUCTION BY BRUNO L. DAVID CHECKLIST AND IMAGES OF THE EXHIBITION
INTRODUCTION BY BRUNO L. DAVID
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I am pleased to present this is the before, an exhibition of new paintings and sculptures by Tom Reed. This is Reed’s second exhibition with the gallery gallery. The river is continually referred to in Reed’s work. Once a symbol of time and change in his paintings, it now has become a collaborative partner. Reed spends days and hours on the river fly fishing. Mementos of this time on the river, beaver chewed sticks, logs, arrowheads, and junk, slowly began making their way into the studio and eventually into the work. Over time they formed a bridge between the river and the creative output in the studio. In this current exhibition, this is the before, Reed combines painted landscapes with small, wooden sculptures in the form of trail markers dotting a hiking trail. The largest, an arrow, reads simply Before. The word is both a warning and an invitation to view any ordinary present-day moment through the eyes of a time-traveler from the future. What would you change if you could go back in time, it asks? What if you are there right now? Tom Reed is an artist, master printer at Island Press, and senior lecturer in the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts, Washington University in St. Louis. Reed received his M.F.A. from the University of Iowa and has had several gallery and museum exhibitions, including at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis. He lives and works in St. Louis, Missouri. Support for the creation of significant new works of art has been the core to the mission and program of the Bruno David Gallery since its founding in 2005. I am deeply grateful to Lily Hollinden, who gave much time, talent, and expertise to the production of this catalogue. Invaluable gallery staff support for the exhibition was provided by Taylor Fulton, Sara Ghazi Asadollahi, Lily Hollinden, Eliza Reinhardt, and Zoe Duncan.
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INDEX AND IMAGES OF THE EXHIBITION
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mountain view 2019 Mixed media on muslin on panel 24 x 28 inches (61 x 71.1 cm)
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red bluff fire flies (detail) 20 x 20 inches per panel (50.8 x 50.8 cm)
red bluff fire flies 2020 Mixed media on muslin on 15 aluminum panels 60 x 100 inches (overall size) (152.4 x 254 cm)
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night path 2019 Mixed media on muslin on panel 24 x 28 inches (61 x 71.1 cm)
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self portrait as a flag 2020 Beaver chew log, birch plywood, felt and paint, pine base 36 x 15 x 6 inches (91.4 x 38.1 x 15.2 cm)
lookout 2020 Wood, stick 55 x 5 1/2 x 64 inches (139.7 x 14 x 162.6 cm)
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night day flags 2019 Mixed media on muslin on panel 38 x 36 inches (96.5 x 91.4 cm)
god’s eyes 2019 Mixed media on muslin on panel 24 x 22 1/2 inches (61 x 57.2 cm)
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night dam(n) 2020 Mixed media on muslin on panel 30 x 36 inches (76.2 x 91.4 cm)
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god’s eyes (diptych) 2019 Mixed media on muslin on panel 21 x 48 inches (53.3 x 121.9 cm)
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tiny tree 2019 Mixed media on muslin on panel 30 x 36 inches (76.2 x 91.4 cm)
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BEFORE 2019 Wood 24 x 17 x 2 inches (61 x 43.2 x 5.1 cm)
stand 2020 Mixed media on muslin on panel 16 1/2 x 24 inches (41.9 x 61 cm)
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flag of a flag of surrender (beaver collaboration #1) 2020 Paint, sticks, found wood, felt, rolling pin, mirror, plywood bench . (10 elements) 96 x 10 inches (243.8 x 25.4 cm)
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tiny tree/big moon 2020 Mixed media and wood 17 x 12 x 4 inches (43.2 x 30.5 x 10.2 cm)
pipe dreemz #2 2020 Mixed media and wood 37 x 8 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches (94 x 21.6 x 8.9 cm)
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orange flag signal? 2020 Mixed media and wood 29 x 6 x 5 1/2 inches (73.7 x 15.2 x 14 cm)
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flag of surrender 2020 Mixed media and wood 37 1/2 x 11 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches (95.3 x 29.2 x 8.9 cm)
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rolling pin tower 2020 Mixed media and wood 19 1/4 x 3 x 3 1/4 inches (48.9 x 7.6 x 8.3 cm)
pipe dreemz #1 2020 Mixed media and wood 24 1/2 x 9 x 4 inches (62.2 x 22.9 x 10.2 cm)
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yellow flag 2019 Wood, felt, paint 40 x 9 x 1 inches (101.6 x 22.9 x 2.5 cm)
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wood sign 2019 Wood, felt 21 x 5 1/2 x 4 inches (53.3 x 14 x 10.2 cm)
split new moon 2020 Mixed media and wood 31 x 21 x 4 inches (78.7 x 53.3 x 10.2 cm)
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moon risen 2020 Mixed media and wood 17 x 10 x 4 inches (43.2 x 25.4 x 10.2 cm)
sunrise 2020 Wood, felt 4 x 4 1/2 x 2 1/2 inches (10.2 x 11.4 x 6.4 cm)
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Tom Reed: this is the before (installation view)
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Tom Reed: this is the before (installation view)
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TOM REED Born: 1968 Lives and works in Saint Louis, MO EDUCATION M.F.A. in Printmaking, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA M.A. in Printmaking, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA B.F.A. in Printmaking, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2020 Bruno David Gallery, “this is the before,” St. Louis, MO (catalogue) 2014 Bruno David Gallery, “everybody knows this is nowhere,” St. Louis, MO (catalogue) 2013 2207/2209, “Dusk Till Dawn,” St. Louis, MO 2012 Wrong Again Gallery, “Black Mountain,” Memphis, TN 2010 Grover Thurston Gallery, “Famous Anonymous Wilderness,” Seattle, WA 2009 Grover Thurston Gallery, “can’t see the forest(for the tree’s?),” Seattle, WA 2007 Philip Slein Gallery, “the land beyond,” St. Louis, MO 2005 Philip Slein Gallery, “drawings,” St. Louis, MO 2003 Elliot Smith Contemporary Art, “things I know, things people have told me,” St. Louis, MO Innsbrook Institute, “New Work,” Innsbrook, MO 2000 Anchor Graphics, “Less Happy Times, Prints, Drawings, and Sketchbooks,” Chicago, IL 1998 American Pop Culture Gallery, “Tom Reed Recent Prints and Drawings,” Nashville, TN 1997 Eve Drewlowe Gallery, “Misunderstanding, exhibition of large scale monoprints,” University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
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SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2020 2018 2019 2016 2014 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2004 2003 2001 1999
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OVERVIEW_2020, Bruno David Gallery, Saint Louis, MO Small Worlds, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, MO OVERVIEW_2019, Bruno David Gallery, Saint Louis, MO Burst of Memory, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, MO AND / OR, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, MO. (catalogue) Mummies are Sitting Ducks, Cider Gallery, Lawrence, KS OVERVIEW_2014, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, MO Figure Studies, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis, MO Wit, Wisdumb and Worry, Ann Arbor Center, Ann Arbor, MI Let’s Talk About Love, MOCAD, Detroit, MI Nowhere Backwards, Des Lee Gallery, St. Louis, MO The Cat, The Dish, and the Spoon, Wonder Fair, Lawrence, KS Return of the Outlaw Printmakers, Philip Slein Gallery, St. Louis, MO Sketchbooks, Grover Thurston Gallery, Seattle, WA Aqua Art Fair, Philip Slein Gallery, Miami, FL Aqua Art Fair, Philip Slein Gallery, Miami, FL Art Chicago, Philip Slein Gallery, Chicago, IL Outlaw Printmakers, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 20, Philip Slein Gallery, St. Louis, MO We Like Each Other, Material, Memphis, TN Group Show, Gescheidle Gallery, Chicago, IL Summer Show, Elliot Smith Gallery, New York, NY Printmaking: A Contemporary Tradition, Schmidt Art Center, Belleville, IL tomato / tomato, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR New Work, Hot House Gallery, Fayetteville, AR Sketchbooks, Marshall Arts, Memphis, TN Nuvola, Farenheight Gallery, Kansas City, MO Faculty Exhibition, Reicher Gallery, Barat College, Lake Forest, IL Art Begins at Home..., Armstrong Gallery, Cornell College, Mt. Vernon, IA The New Blood, New Blood, Baltimore, MD
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS (continued) 1998
Emerging Artists 98, Vedanta Gallery, Chicago, IL MFA Exhibition, University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA Salvation and Damnation, Crossman Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, Whitewater, WI
CURATORIAL 2009
Time Well Spent, Regional Arts Center, St. Louis, MO
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY Johnson, Robert __________ __________ __________ Baran, Jessica Baran, Jessica Bonnetti, David
“Tom Reed: Everybody Knows This is Nowhere,” Bruno David Gallery Publication, 2014 “Unconventional Landscapes,” Design Observer, 2015 “Midwest edition,” New American Paintings, 2015 “Tom Reed,” All the Art, 2015 “Nowhere Backwards,” Riverfront Times, St. Louis, MO, 2012 “Return of the outlaw Printmakers,” Riverfront Times, St. Louis, MO, 2011 “Land Beyond review,” St. Louis Post Dispatch, St. Louis, MO, 2007
HONORS & AWARDS 2013 2011 2010 2004 2003 2000
Visiting Artist, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT Visiting Artist, Cranbrook, Detroit, MI Visiting Artist, Brookhaven College, Dallas, TX Visiting Artist, University of Georgia, Athens, GA Visiting Artist, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR City of Chicago CAAP Grant, Chicago, IL Research Assistant Intaglio and Relief, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA Ruth Julien Scholarship in Printmaking, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 55
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ARTISTS REPRESENTED Sara Ghazi Asadollahi Laura Beard Heather Bennett Lisa K. Blatt Michael Byron Bunny Burson Judy Child Carmon Colangelo Alex Couwenberg Terry James Conrad Jill Downen Damon Freed
Yvette Drury Dubinsky Douglass Freed Richard Hull Kelley Johnson Chris Kahler Leslie Laskey Justin Henry Miller James Austin Murray Ralph Nagel Yvonne Osei Patricia Olynyk Gary Passanise
Charles P. Reay Daniel Raedeke Tom Reed Frank Schwaiger Charles Schwall Christina Shmigel Thomas Sleet Buzz Spector Cindy Tower Mark Travers Monika Wulfers
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