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Reed Anderson

An outgrowth of meticulous incisions, repetitions, and extractions, Reed Anderson’s work reveals the potential of the cut as both a medium and a craft. For Anderson, the cutting of paper is a dissection of the creative process, a way to shape structure through voids and build form through deconstruction. What emerges is, according to Anderson, a new ‘species of abstraction,’ an intermingling of animal and floral contours that suggests the patterns of nature and systematization of craft. As hybrid forms, Anderson’s works are as much a new species as they are new specimens, examples of a cross between fine art and craft and the grafting of pop onto pattern.

Reed Anderson attained a BFA in printmaking from the San Francisco Art Institute, and a recent MFA from Stanford University. He has exhibited throughout the United States and in Europe, and his work is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, NY; The Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; The Olbricht Collection, Essen, Germany; The Progressive Art Collection, Ohio; The Burchfield-Penny Art Museum, Buffalo, NY; and Altoids Curiously Strong Collection. Anderson has curated various shows, created videos, designed album covers, and studied Butoh in Japan with Min Tanaka. He has been featured in numerous publications including: Cabinet, New York Times, The Village Voice, Time Out NY, Graphic magazine, and Flaunt. Anderson is currently relocating to New York’s, Hudson Valley.

• ARTIST BIO (PDF)
• EXHIBITION: Reed Anderson - You Would If You Loved Me
• REVIEW: Square Cylinder (PDF)
• REVIEW: Reed Anderson, artpractical.com