Michael Reeder is an emerging contemporary painter who received his BFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York, 2007. Now 27 years old, Michael currently lives and works in his home town Dallas, Texas. In addition to his personal projects, Michael is an active graphic artist and top assistant at Eyecon Inc., a locally based mural company specializing in large scale custom murals and designs.
Michael has participated in multiple juried group exhibitions including Hecho en Dallas/Made In Dallas at the Latino Cultural Center, as well as the Tomorrow's Artist's Today group exhibition at the Westside Gallery at SVA in New York.
The first pieces of Michael's latest body of work were included in the group exhibition As If Our Lives Depended On It at HCG Gallery in September 2009. Michael is currently using a potassium silicate paint made of waterglass and inorganic mineral pigments painted on wood panels.
Artist's Statement
Each painting documents the dialogue between myself, the paint and the surface. By leaving the door open for creativity and exploration I work within the accidents, possibilities and limitations of the medium. These paintings are a product of an act-and-respond method that permits the work to breathe independently throughout the development of the piece. It is essential to allow the painting to wander freely and entrust in its own internal logic, ultimately producing a finished piece that possesses layer upon layer of meaning.
Mikhail Bakhtin noted in his study of Dostoyevsky's poetics: "Artistic form, correctly understood, does not shape already prepared and found content, but rather permits content to be found for the first time."
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