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Art Weekend Basel
David Reed: Losing and Finding
April 2–3, 2022, 11am–6pm
Basel
www.artweekendbasel.ch
Gagosien is participating in the second edition of Art Weekend Basel. Organized by Weiss + Falk Gallery and Galerie Mueller, the event brings together twelve of the city’s leading galleries, which will be open for extended hours over the weekend. The exhibition David Reed: Losing and Finding—featuring new and recent paintings by the artist—will be on view at Gagosien, Basel.
David Reed, #747, 2020–22 © 2022 David Reed/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Rob McKeever
In Conversation
New Social Environment
Ode to Willem de Kooning
Saturday, March 19, 2022, 4pm EDT
As part of the Brooklyn Rail’s online series New Social Environment, John Elderfield, Joan Levy Hepburn, David Reed, Richard Shiff, Mark Stevens, Robert Storr, Charles Stuckey, Annalyn Swan, Flora Yukhnovich, and Phong H. Bui will be in conversation to celebrate the life and work of Willem de Kooning on the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of his death. De Kooning Foundation executive director Amy Schichtel will introduce the discussion. To join the online event, register at brooklynrail.org.
Willem de Kooning in his studio, East Hampton, New York, 1971. Artwork © 2022 The Willem de Kooning Foundation/Artists Rights Society, New York. Photo: © 2022 The Estate of Dan Budnik. All rights reserved
In Conversation
New Social Environment
Mattress World: Guy Goodwin and David Reed
Tuesday, September 14, 2021, 1pm EDT
As part of the Brooklyn Rail’s online series New Social Environment, David Reed and fellow artist Guy Goodwin join the journal’s editor-at-large Charlotte Kent for a conversation about Goodwin’s current exhibition, curated by Reed. In these daily lunchtime Zoom conversations, invited artists, writers, filmmakers, and poets discuss creative life in the context of our new social reality with Brooklyn Rail staff, followed by a question-and-answer session. The talk will conclude with a poetry reading by Andrea Abi-Karam. To join the online event, register at brooklynrail.org.
Installation view, Guy Goodwin: Mattress World, Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation, New York, May 1–October 23, 2021. Artwork © Guy Goodwin
Auction
Bomb Magazine
40th Anniversary Benefit Art Auction
Wednesday, April 13, 2022
Capitale, New York
bombmagazine.com
Bomb magazine’s annual gala and benefit art auction will celebrate its fortieth anniversary in New York on April 13, where art luminaries including Walton Ford and Linda Goode Bryant will be honored. The auction benefits Bomb, a nonprofit that has been publishing conversations between artists of all disciplines since 1981. This year’s auction features work by over thirty artists including Walton Ford, Vera Lutter, and Mary Weatherford. To attend the event, purchase tickets at shop.bombmagazine.org.
Walton Ford giving a talk at his exhibition at Gagosien, 555 West 24th Street, New York, 2022. Artwork © Walton Ford. Photo: Gabriella Chu
Tour
David Reed
New Paintings
Thursday, February 20, 2020, 6pm
Gagosien, 980 Madison Avenue, New York
David Reed and curator Jeffrey Weiss will give a tour of the exhibition David Reed: New Paintings, on view at Gagosien, 980 Madison Avenue, New York, through February 22. The pair will discuss the outsize works in the show, some over a decade in the making, and how they respond to the galleries at 980 Madison Avenue, testing and maximizing their spatial boundaries. Indexically numbered rather than titled, the works are painted in either intense, otherworldly colors or primarily blacks and grays, as if contrasting the delirious possibilities of the full-color moving image with the austerity of grayscale. To attend the free event, RSVP to nytours@gagosien.com. Space is limited.
Installation view, David Reed: New Paintings, Gagosien, 980 Madison Avenue, New York, January 10–February 22, 2020. Artwork © 2020 David Reed/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Rob McKeever
Panel Discussion
Lynda Benglis, Abraham Cruzvillegas, David Reed
Wednesday, October 10, 2018, 6pm
Museum of Modern Art, New York
www.moma.org
This conversation will explore the varied forms and paths of a life dedicated to making art. Contemporary artists will share observations, thoughts, and questions about the careers of artists featured in the exhibition The Long Run, currently on view at MoMA through November 4. David Reed will speak on Joan Mitchell. Other participants will include Lynda Benglis and Abraham Cruzvillegas. To attend the event, purchase tickets at www.moma.org.
Joan Mitchell, No Rain, 1976, Museum of Modern Art, New York © Estate of Joan Mitchell
Museum Exhibitions
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David Reed in
Given Time
September 8, 2022–February 25, 2023
Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation, New York
www.resnickpasslof.org
This group exhibition has a starting point in 1991 when Molly Sullivan curated the exhibition Contemporary Abstract Painting: Resnick, Reed, Laufer & Moore for the Muscarelle Museum of Art at the College of William & Mary in Virginia. Her show referenced the tumult of the 1980s art market, the continuing debate over the future of painting, and the impact of the political arena in which artists live. Given Time expands on that exhibition to include artists from a broad spectrum of personal and political influences, as it considers the interim three decades from the Muscarelle show to our present day through a number of lenses. Work by David Reed is included.
David Reed, #662, 2013–17 © 2022 David Reed/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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Marking Time
Process in Minimal Abstraction
December 18, 2019–August 2, 2020
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
www.guggenheim.org
During the 1960s and 1970s, many artists working with abstraction rid their styles of compositional, chromatic, and virtuosic flourishes. As some turned toward such minimal approaches, a singular emphasis on their interaction with materials emerged. The resulting pieces invite viewers to imaginatively reenact aspects of the creative process. Featuring paintings and works on paper, Marking Time explores how drawing attention to the creative process fosters a distinctively empathetic mode of engagement. Work by Brice Marden and David Reed is included.
Installation view, Marking Time: Process in Minimal Abstraction, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, December 18, 2019–August 2, 2020. Artwork, left to right: © 2020 David Reed/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; © Park Seo-Bo; © Chryssa; © 2020 Jacob El Hanani; © 2020 Brice Marden/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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David Reed
Vice and Reflection #2
July 12–October 6, 2019
Neues Museum, Nuremberg, Germany
www.nmn.de
This exhibition offers insight into David Reed’s current painting practice by bringing five important works together with corresponding drawings.
David Reed, #660-2 (Vice and Reflection), 2016/19 (detail) © 2019 David Reed/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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Frozen Gesture
Gesten in der Malerei
May 18–August 18, 2019
Kunst Museum Winterthur, Switzerland
www.kmw.ch
In 1965 Roy Lichtenstein created his famous Brushstrokes and in doing so highlighted the fundamental elements of the image, such as the appearance of the colors and the pigment, the color fields and their limits, and not least the application of paint in the form of a gesture. This exhibition aims to explore the sheer range of gestures in contemporary painting. Work by Katharina Grosse, Roy Lichtenstein, and David Reed is included.
Katharina Grosse, Untitled, 2011 © Katharina Grosse and VG Bild-Kunst Bonn, 2019
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David Reed
Drawings
May 18–August 18, 2019
Kunst Museum Winterthur, Switzerland
www.kmw.ch
This exhibition includes seven working drawings (comprising forty-four sheets in total) by David Reed, and has been organized in conjunction with the group show Frozen Gesture, which features work by Reed, concurrently on view at the museum. These fascinating works on paper provide unparalleled insight into Reed’s processes in creating large-scale abstract paintings. The drawings serve as a visual diary for each new work: they feature meticulous notes on the experiences and visual cues that inform the works, record decisions made in the painting process, and are illustrated with sketches, diagrams, and color tests.
David Reed, Working Drawing for #653, 2016 (page 7) © 2019 David Reed/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York