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Presences: Paintings by Veronica Reeves at The Joinery, Portland, Oregon, USA

2018-07-05 by V2R2 Leave a Comment

 

Presences: Paintings by Veronica Reeves

Reception: Aug. 9, 6-8 pm, 2018

The Joinery

922 SW Yamhill St, Portland, OR 97205

Hours: Monday – Saturday 10-6, Sunday 11-5

Free and open to the public.

In paintings in the traditions of surrealism and abstract expressionism, Veronica Reeves examines the way consciousness exists in layers of emotion, thought, domestic spaces, digital spaces, and wild spaces, questioning the construct of separation. Reeves’s paintings depict figures interacting with landscapes that seem familiar but are unrecognizable, absurd, and dreamlike. Through saturated colors, inverted colors, juxtaposing hard edges with spills, brushwork, and spray paint, Reeves creates visuals of an imaginal realm that reflects our world.

Reeves received her MFA from Pacific Northwest College of Art in 2015 and her BFA from Colorado University at Denver in 2008. She has shown her work nationally and internationally including New York City, Portland (Oregon), Denver, Seattle, Tokyo, and Berlin. Outside of her studio practice, Reeves co-organizes and art shows with Dispersal Collective and Danma vs. V2R2, an artist collaborative. Reeves has had residencies with Signal Fire Arts, Rainmaker Artist Residency, Leland Ironworks, and co-directed Next Gallery in Denver, an artist cooperative gallery. She was an artist-in-residence at Otto Petersen Elementary school during which she co-coordinated a permanent tile-mural project in collaboration with students and staff.

I am interested in the ways in which we create ourselves in relationship to our environment with particular regard to the way we interact with the Earth directly versus the intermediaries that technology and industry become. Painting connects me to an ancient lineage of observation and intuition. By incorporating abstraction, I invite the viewer to invoke the matrix of imagination while at the same time dampening limitations on the identity of figures and landscape.

Artist, Veronica Reeves, Ex Nihilo, abstract expressionism, surrealism, painting, portland, oregon,
Veronica Reeves, Ex Nihilo, 2018, oil, acrylic, and Flashe on canvas, 40″ x 40″

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Radiant Angle solo show at Rainmaker Artist Residency December 9th, 2016

2016-11-29 by V2R2 Leave a Comment

Radiant Angle: Veronica Reeves I am pleased to present Radiant Angle, my solo painting show as an artist resident at Rainmaker Artist Residency. Inspired by the fluidity of the paint, I employ painting as an intuitive practice that opens up potential for the resulting compositions. Travel and dreams also serve as origins for the imagery in my work. In Radiant Angle, surreal landscapes become figures that suggest the divine feminine, shifting and glowing along with the use of iridescent, fluorescent, and metallic paints.

Veronica Reeves received her Master’s of Fine Art in Visual Studies from Pacific Northwest College of Art in 2015. She has shown nationally and internationally including Tokyo, Berlin, New York, Denver, Portland, Seattle, and Spokane. Her recent awards include residencies with Signal Fire and Rainmaker Artists Residency. Reeves graduated with her B.F.A. from University of Colorado at Denver in 2008.

It is increasingly urgent that we as humans regain a sense of harmony through healing the broken connections between ourselves and our planet, and through honoring that dependent relationship. Being in natural places and wild places offers a reminder that we are on a finite planet, that our health depends on the health of the planet, and for me personally offer bliss, peace, and healing. By the looks of current events, we have much healing that needs to take place and I will be donating 50% of sales of work from this show to Oceti Sakowin Camp at Standing Rock. Please join me on Friday, December 9th, 6pm-9pm at Rainmaker Artist Residency to view these current works of mine. I am also available by appointment to show you my paintings.

 

I have had the honor to be steeped in natural settings for much of my childhood growing up in the Pacific Northwest and for a short time in Hawai’i. Being in natural and wild places is like a healing balm for my soul where I recognize I am a part of a greater creation that provides physical and spiritual nourishment. I want to thank my friends at Signal Fire, Leland Ironworks, In Sacred Balance, as well as my partner, artist Dan Ma, for also showing me the love that the Earth shows us and for experiences and support that helped make these paintings happen. <3

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