Adam C Reed Studios
Original Art, Limited Edition Prints, Art Books
Morgantown, WV, USA
Recent Work
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Epicure
Oil on panel
11.5 x 14.5 in (29 x 37 cm)
2023 -
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Testimony
Oil on panel
11.5 x 14.5 in (29 x 37 cm)
2023 -
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Milliner
Oil on panel
11.5 x 14.5 in (29 x 37 cm)
2023 -
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Soloist
Oil on panel
21 x 28 in (53 x 71 cm)
2023 -
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Different
Oil on panel
21 x 28 in (53 x 71 cm)
2023 -
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Soon but Briefly and Never Again
Oil on Canvas
36 x 48 in (91 x 122 cm)
2022 -
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Replaced By Golden Coins
Oil on Canvas
16 x 20 in (40 x 51 cm)
2022 -
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Reminder
Oil on Canvas
36 x 48 in (91 x 122 cm)
2022 -
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Furnace
Oil on Canvas
36 x 48 in (91 x 122 cm)
2022 -
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Katherine
Gouache on Paper
9 x 11 in (23 x 28 cm)
2022
Credenza
Paintings and Drawings 2016 - 2020
Hardcover - 85 pages
This portfolio-in-print includes high-quality images of Adam's paintings from the years 2016 -2020 as well as never-before-shared transitional paintings, preparatory drawings, and studies.
About the Artist
Adam Reed was born in Atlanta, GA and studied painting at the Atlanta College of Art. He left Atlanta in 2009 and lived in various places before settling in West Virginia.
Reed's paintings combine classical allusions and traditional oil painting techniques with ready-made and outsider-art aesthetics. Objectively, they are still-lifes, consisting of precariously positioned piles of rags, fabric scraps, flowers, mannequin parts, and animal skulls (which Reed has found in the woods around his home). Viewed through an interpretive lens, however, one can see references to portraiture, landscape, narrative -- playful fantasies cobbled together from objects at hand and carefully rendered in oil.
Often there is humor here, however it is tempered by the often morbid subjects and the austere and meticulous execution. The results are delicate paintings that are at once traditional and contemporary, studied and naive, uncanny and ridiculous.
Selected Exhibitions/Publications/Art Fairs
2023 The WERK Gallery, St. Petersberg, FL
2022 - Affordable Art Fair Battersea, London, UK
2022 - Superfine NYC, 180 Broome St. New York, NY
2022 - The Worm at the Core, Culture Lab LIC, Long Island City, NY
2022 - Superfine DC, Gallery Place, Washington DC
2021 - Superfine NYCx3, 415 Center, New York, NY
2021 - Art Show International - Merit Prize Award Winner, 1st Still Life Juried Art Exhibition
2020 - Book - Credenza: Paintings and Drawings 2016 -2020
2020 - Art Palm Beach, with Steidel Fine Art, West Palm Beach, FL
2019 - Red Dot Miami, with Steidel Fine Art, Mana Wynwood, Miami, FL
2019 - Superfine! DC, Union Market, Washington D.C.
2019 - Superfine! NYC, 107 Grand Street, Soho, New York, NY
2018 - Superfine! Miami Beach, Art Deco Welcome Center, Miami Beach, FL
2018 - Featured Artist, Friend of the Artist vol. 6
2017 - FRESH PAINT, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2013 - SLURRY, Borderline Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2009 - The Exquisite Corpse Project, Gowanus Studio Space, Brooklyn, NY
2007 - Group Show, Eyedrum Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2005 - @L'Avenue, L'Avenue Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2003 - Leaving, Edgewood Lofts, Atlanta, GA
2002 - Small Works, Edgewood Lofts, Atlanta, GA
2001 - Does It Itch?, Czigan-Rummel Gallery, Jacksonville, FL