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Idea Sale: Kavi Gupta | 219 N. Elizabeth St. Chicago, IL, 60607

Past exhibition
13 April - 1 June 2019
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Scott Reeder, More Ideas for a tv show episode or a painting, 2017

Scott Reeder USA, b. 1970

More Ideas for a tv show episode or a painting, 2017
Wax pastel and acrylic on canvas
60 x 48 in
152.4 x 121.9 cm
5909
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In 2015, Reeder was in a duo show with the artist Andrew Kuo at Marlborough gallery in New York. In an interview with the two artists, Reeder specifically addressed the...
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In 2015, Reeder was in a duo show with the artist Andrew Kuo at Marlborough gallery in New York. In an interview with the two artists, Reeder specifically addressed the painting More Ideas for a tv show episode or a painting, which was in that show, saying, "I got to the point where I realized I had more ideas than I could ever realize, so now I’m just presenting the ideas.” The piece was exhibited alongside another "list painting," this one titled, "Artists to Watch." That painting listed Picasso, Pollock, Warhol, Smith, Johnson, Williams, Brown, Jones, Miller, and Davis, some of which are obviously iconic, and others of which are ubiquitous names that happen to be shared by famous artists, but which are also shared by literally thousands of other working artists. More Ideas for a tv show episode or a painting could be read as simply a realistic painting of ideas that Reeder actually had for names of TV shows and paintings, or, as with the Artists to Watch painting, it could be thought of as an absurdist commentary on the inherent value and meaning of words.

Reeder has said, "My work almost always starts with language." Even his seemingly least text based works—his pasta paintings, which use pasta as a sort of stencil to create seemingly abstract linear compositions—were inspired when Reeder wrote the sentence "pasta paintings," prior to knowing what it was he was trying to say or do.

In many of Reeder’s paintings and neon sculptures, the written word is exactly what it appears to be: a conveyance of thought, unencumbered by conceptual abstraction. Or is it? Sometimes, he seems to be poking fun at something, as in his painting Alternative Titles for Recent Exhibitions I’ve Seen (2014), or More ideas for a TV show episode or a painting (2017). Other times, he seems to be simply making a direct statement of fact, as in his painting Wall Talk (2012), which prominently features those words, or his neon sculpture Interesting (2018). Funny, ironic, whimsical, critical, and sometimes melancholy, Reeder's works excel first and foremost in the art of understatement.
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