Michael Reeder is a Texan-born, Los Angeles-based artist who is a contemporary portraitist. He uses figurative distortions and symbolic dislocations as a vehicle for the expression and examination of identity. Reeder’s controlled chaos is as evocative as it is strategically unsettling, using various mediums, he creates works that express imagery that is loose enough to encourage projection and tight enough to direct association by tapping into the subconscious. He inspires a new sense of surrealism, with portraits of a limitless visual resource.
Click through Michael Reeder’s mural progress for Vitality & Verve III: Transforming the Urban Landscape at the Long Beach Museum of Art opening this weekend.
Follow Michael Reeder on Instagram at @reederone
“Vitality and Verve III” is the third iteration of the collaborative series curated by Thinkspace Projects with the support of POW! WOW! Long Beach for the Long Beach Museum of Art, and will be featuring ephemeral murals and installations from Bordalo II, CASE, Evoca, Sergio Garcia, Herakut, Hush,
Jaune, Leon Keer, Koz Dos, Spenser Little, Fintan Magee, Dennis McNett, Drew Merritt, Michael Reeder, RISK, SEEN, Amy Sol, Super A, Juan Travieso, Dan Witz and Lauren YS
The Long Beach Museum of Art presents:
‘VITALITY AND VERVE III’
Curated by Thinkspace with support from POW! WOW! Long Beach
On View June 30, 2018 thru September 9, 2018 at:
Long Beach Museum of Art
2300 East Ocean Boulevard
Long Beach, CA. 90803
Friday, June 29 opening night gala tickets available now for only $15 at:
www.lbma.org/after-dark-2018
