Finding roots in the improvisational surrealist practice of collage, Reeves creates paintings that embrace the unknown. Reeves’ paintings investigate what human emotional and spiritual relationship to the Earth looks like in a time of ecological destabilization. The identities of Reeves’ subjects and settings emerge and erode, often in inverted and saturated colors, veering into abstraction. Images of natural settings, Earth processes, and celestial events combined with figures and eroding human structures hint at the sublime force of creation and destruction. A palette including iridescent, super matte, and neon paints speaks to the value of viewing artwork in person rather than through digital reproduction.
Reeves is an artist living and working in Oregon. She received her MFA from Pacific Northwest College of Art in 2015 and her BFA from Colorado University in 2008. She has shown her work nationally and internationally including New York City, Portland (Oregon), Denver, Seattle, Tokyo, and Berlin. Reeves co-organizes exhibitions as a part of Dispersal Collective, a mail art project. Along with creating art, Reeves has a passion for teaching and inspiring new artists. She has taught youth at PNCA, youth and adults at OCAC, special needs clients, and was an artist-in-residence at Otto Petersen Elementary in Scappoose, Oregon. Reeves has received residencies through Signal Fire Arts, Rainmaker Artist Residency, and Leland Ironworks.
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