Scott Reeder

Born:
1970
Residence:
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Nationality:
American
Trust:
APT New York
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  • Detroit is on the rise.

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  • On March 2, 2017, as part of its Contemporary Curated sale in New York, during Armory Week, Sotheby’s will be offering the very first public sale of works from the Artist Pension Trust® (APT) Collection. APT was founded in 2004 as a mutual assurance program providing long-term financial security for its member artists who deposit artworks with the trust over a 20-year period, and share the net proceeds from the sales. With 13,000 works, by 2,000 member artists, it is the largest private collection of global contemporary art in the world.

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  • Lisa Cooley Gallery, an influential Lower East Side space that opened on Orchard Street in 2008, has closed, sources tell ARTnews.

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  • 10 Opening Exhibitions to Watch

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  • After eleven years, the painter Scott Reeder has finally finished his first feature film, Moon Dust (2014), and recently screened it in New York City.

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  • 10 Opening Exhibitions to Watch

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  • And so if you’re not a painter in love with paint or Painting, but you still do make paintings, then the question presents itself: why painting?

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  • A Travel Without Visual Experience By Pak Sheung Chuen The Hong Kong artist Pak Shueng Chuen taped up his eyes and went to Malaysia to take

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  • Featured in "..." at New York's The Hole (312 Bowery), alongside a selection of "new abstraction" by Kadar Brock, Matt Jones, and Scott Reeder,

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  • A group exhibition at The Hole, titled "...", includes work by Kadar Brock, Matt Jones, Sam Moyer and Scott Reeder. Throughout the exhibition

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  • A jokester by nature, Scott Reeder has been exhibited widely, yet he’s still relatively unknown. He brings the full range of his talents to his first

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  • Downtown warehouse spaces in LA have long housed artist studios, where maximum space comes for minimum rent. But in the past couple of years galleries have been following suit, moving eastward and taking up residence in old warehouses with gritty exposed brick, lofty wooden rafters, and square footage ample enough to show big projects.

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  • Scott Reeder’s first solo show in Los Angeles does double duty, two times over.

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  • A Travel Without Visual Experience By Pak Sheung Chuen The Hong Kong artist Pak Shueng Chuen taped up his eyes and went to Malaysia to take

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  • Featured in "..." at New York's The Hole (312 Bowery), alongside a selection of "new abstraction" by Kadar Brock, Matt Jones, and Scott Reeder,

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  • A group exhibition at The Hole, titled "...", includes work by Kadar Brock, Matt Jones, Sam Moyer and Scott Reeder. Throughout the exhibition

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  • A jokester by nature, Scott Reeder has been exhibited widely, yet he’s still relatively unknown. He brings the full range of his talents to his first

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  • "I love the idea of mass-market fashion. Sort of 'no fashion' fashion," says Cary Leibowitz, one of four artists invited to design a limited-edition

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  • The chaos of Art Basel Miami Beach is bigger than ever before, with even more satellite fairs, special projects, artist talks and museum openings. As if the fairs themselves weren’t enough to keep you busy, there are also some fantastic not to be missed installations outside of the walls of the convention center. Make sure to get plenty of sleep, drink plenty of liquids, pack the most comfortable shoes, and have a driver on hand...

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  • Detroit artist Scott Reeder's compelling show at Lisa Cooley is full of wise-ass text-based work that features masking, airbrush and more. In the back

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  • Lisa Cooley presents Scott Reeder’s exhibition, People Call Me Scott, a solo presentation of paintings and sculpture. This is Scott’s sixth solo

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  • Multimedium artist Scott Reeder is known for a wry use of humor that incorporates both art-historical references and silly jokes. Providing ample

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  • Here’s a nice surprise. Scott Reeder, the Detroit-based painter best known for brushy, pleasantly sloppy figurative work, has returned for his sixth

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  • Berlin Gallery Weekend kicks off with more than 50 galleries and some 1,000 national and international guests. Since it was founded in 2004, the Gallery Weekend has established itself as one of the leading German events for contemporary art as well as the biggest selling event in the local art market. Here are 10 recommended openings exhibitions in Berlin this coming weekend.

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  • And so if you’re not a painter in love with paint or Painting, but you still do make paintings, then the question presents itself: why painting?

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BIOGRAPHY

Scott Reeder's paintings are irreverent parodies yet his painting are classical in a sense. He mines art history for different styles and each style gives him the context for a new joke. The list of his parodies include Caravaggio, Picasso, Duchamp, Jasper Johns, Rothko, Matisse, Twombly, Lewitt and others. Then there are the uniquely Scott Reeder paintings – the smoking fruit, the Christian Calculator, the Symmetrical Pirate. But as Reeder's Untitled 14 x 25 foot piece that occupied the lobby of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago demonstrates, he is not only interested in the surface joke. The “spaghetti” series delves into the the abstract both as a visual experience and a type of problem of social value. 

Reeder’s work has been shown widely including exhibitions at Saatchi Gallery, Gavin Brown’s enterprise, Daniel Reich Gallery, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Jack Hanley, China Art Objects, and Pat Hearn. His recent projects also include a soon to be completed feature film entitled Moon Dust; set 100 years in the future and tells the tragic story of a failing resort located on the moon. Reeder recently had a solo show at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago.

In addition to his artistic practice, Scott has an active curatorial practice with his brother Tyson Reeder and wife Elysia Borowy-Reeder. The collaboration began in 2002 with the opening of their storefront gallery in Milwaukee, General Store. General Store went on to curate the legendary Drunk vs. Stoned exhibitions at Gavin Brown’s enterprise, as well as the Early Show at White Columns in New York. Their most recent project Club Nutz: The world’s smallest comedy club, was a special project at Frieze Art Fair in London in 2009 and at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. Scott is also a member of Milwaukee International, a five person collective responsible for the Milwaukee International Art Fair, hosted at a Polish beer hall/bowling alley in Milwaukee, the Dark Fair at the Swiss Institute in NY in 2008 and Dark Fair - Cologne, at the Kölnischer Kunstverein in Cologne, Germany in 2009.


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