Adam Reed was born in Atlanta, GA and studied painting at the Atlanta College of Art. He left Atlanta in 2009 and lived in various places before settling in West Virginia.

Reed's paintings combine classical allusions and traditional oil painting techniques with ready-made and outsider-art aesthetics. ​Objectively, they are still-lifes, consisting of precariously positioned piles of rags, fabric scraps, flowers, mannequin parts, and animal skulls (which Reed has found in the woods around his home). Viewed through an interpretive lens, however, one can see references to portraiture, landscape, narrative -- playful fantasies cobbled together from objects at hand and carefully rendered in oil.

Often there is humor here, however it is tempered by the often morbid subjects and the austere and meticulous execution. The results are delicate paintings that are at once traditional and contemporary, studied and naive, uncanny and ridiculous.

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Education

BFA Painting - The Atlanta College of Art, 2001

Selected Exhibitions

2023 - The WERK Gallery, St. Petersburg, FL

2022 - The Worm at the Core, Culture Lab LIC, Long Island City, NY

2017 - FRESH PAINT, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH

2013 - SLURRY, Borderline Gallery, Atlanta, GA

2009 - The Exquisite Corpse Project, Gowanus Studio Space, Brooklyn, NY

2007 - Group Show, Eyedrum Gallery, Atlanta, GA

2005 - @L'Avenue, L'Avenue Gallery, Atlanta, GA

2003 - Leaving, Edgewood Lofts, Atlanta, GA

2002 - Small Works, Edgewood Lofts, Atlanta, GA

2001 - Does It Itch?, Czigan-Rummel Gallery, Jacksonville, FL

Art Fairs

2022 - Affordable Art Fair, London, UK

2018-2022 - Superfine Miami, NYC, DC, Seattle

2020 - Art Palm Beach, West Palm Beach, FL

2019 - Red Dot Miami, Miami, FL

Publications

2020 - Book, Credenza: Paintings and Drawings 2016 -2020

2018 - Featured Artist, Friend of the Artist vol. 6