Scouring art history, artist Shelley Reed searches for old paintings that feel meaningful to today. She repaints fragments, collaging details together to create new images, ones that affirm art history's relevance to contemporary culture. Through this process, Reed explores the question of what/whether we learn from the past, and if social evolution is even possible.
Reed has shown extensively across the U.S. and her work is in many public and private collections, including the Art Institute of Chicago; the MFA Boston, the Columbia Museum of Art, and Fidelity Investments. She is represented by Sears-Peyton Gallery in NY and Carol Corey Fine Art in Kent, CT.
At MacDowell, Reed created sketches for a new series of large paintings addressing humanity's stewardship of nature's abundance.
