Evan Reed

Artwork Description

Reed builds large-scale, semi-representational sculptures. They can take their inspiration from the materials they are constructed with or through imagery that he finds personally relevant or autobiographical. The work is a synthesis of contrasting ideas; machined combined with natural; representational with abstract; work-a-day turned absurd; vernacular memorialized.

Biography

Evan Reed lives and maintains a studio in Arlington, Virginia. He has exhibited in several solo and group exhibitions regionally and nationally since 1992. Reed received his BFA from the Corcoran College of Art & Design in 1992 and his MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1996. His early employment background in construction, cabinetry, landscaping and making architectural plaster molding have helped inform his sculpture through knowledge of materials and building processes but they have also worked their way into the conceptual aspects of his artwork. He has worked in art education on the staff at Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont, and as a faculty member at Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana. Since 2003 he has been a visiting assistant professor in studio art and the gallery director in the Department of Art and Art History at Georgetown University, Washington D.C. since 2004 Reed has been an artist in residence at the Arlington Arts Center in Arlington, Virginia.