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David Reed

has explored the physicality of painting, focusing on the brush stroke as a historically and visually iconic element. His paintings mix obvious traces of the artist's hand with mechanical or digital reproductions of swirling, wave-like brush-work. Especially evident in his long horizontal paintings, which unfold from left to right, is a sensitivity to duration and viewing experience similar to film. Reed's paintings have been exhibited widely, with recent one-person shows at the Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, St. Gallen Switzerland (2001), the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, California (1998), and the Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria (1996). Group exhibitions include "Mood River," at Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio (2002) and the Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (1989, 1975).