Erik Reel
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Gary Robert Meriweather Erik Reel (born December 16, 1952) known as Erik ReeL, is an American artist and writer. His mature work features improvisational, abstract painting with connections to the Northwest School of art, particularly Mark Tobey.[1][2][3][4] He also developed a form of heat-set serigraphy on fine art papers that eliminates many of the flaws created by traditional serigraph inks.[5]
Initially writing art criticism for international art magazines such as Vanguard, High Performance, and ArtExpress under the name Gary Reel, he later dropped his given first name and uses Erik ReeL [with a capital L] when exhibiting visual art or writing on art and theatre after leaving Seattle.[5]
Early years and education[edit]
Erik Reel was born in Seattle to an aeronautics engineer and a mother trained in perceptual psychology. He attended Whitman College, majoring in Mathematics, the University of California, Berkeley, and graduated from the University of Washington in art history. He also studied sumi-e (ink painting) with George Tsutakawa, and painting with Michael Spafford and Jacob Lawrence while at the University of Washington.[5] Upon graduating, ReeL taught color theory in Seattle for 11 years.[1][5]
Writing[edit]
Starting in 1978, in Seattle, Reel wrote a weekly column on the arts and art reviews for the Bellevue Journal-American daily newspaper, and wrote regularly for art magazines such as ArtExpress (New York City), High Performance (Los Angeles), and Vanguard (Vancouver, British Columbia), under the name Gary Reel.[5] During this time Reel was part of a milieu that exercised considerable influence on other artists in Seattle, particularly in Performance art,[6] including, according to Sharon Gannon, co-founding a performance art salon called The Salon Apocalypse.[7]
After leaving Seattle, ReeL published under the name Erik ReeL, for example, from 2011 to 2018 writing reviews for the online magazine Society805.com on visual art[8] and theatre.[9] In 2021 ReeL published Pterodactyl Cries: Art, Abstraction, and Apocalypse, an extended meditation on abstract painting and culture.[10]
Visual art[edit]
ReeL's mature painting is improvisational, abstract, and layered, with a tendency to blur the distinction between drawing and painting. Reel alternated between figurative and abstract painting for much of his career before eliminating references to external reality altogether in 2009.[3][11][12] This move has been interpreted as part of an ongoing critique of materialism with a certain ecological perspective.[13] Hudak quotes Reel: "A lot of art reinforces materialism, but I’ve wanted to point to consciousness itself".[1]
The Italian art critic, Nikki Arconi has stressed the role of cognitive psychology and mark-making in ReeL's work: "For ReeL, marking is a defining characteristic of the human and the primordial act of signification and meaning for human consciousness".[13]
The American art critic, Jae Carlsson, has suggested Reel's painting points more toward processes in the physical world on either large cosmological or extremely small sub-atomic scales that cannot be seen directly by the human eye.[14]
Reel's work is collected internationally and in public collections, including the Morris Graves Museum of Art, the Museum of Ventura County,[5] and Whitman College.[15] ReeL's art has been associated with environmental activism,[16] which is also a theme running throughout his book, Pterodactyl Cries: Art, Abstraction, and Apocalypse.[10]
Early in the 21st century, working with screen printers, ReeL developed a more durable form of heat-set serigraph technique for printing on fine art papers that avoids the easy marring of the surface of serigraphs during shipping and handling and other flaws of traditional serigraph inks.[5] An example of a Reel print using these techniques was first exhibited in the 71st annual print exhibition of the Society of American Graphic Artists (SAGA) held in New York city in 2004.
Exhibitions[edit]
After initial solo exhibitions in 1975 and 1977 at the Alexander Sasonoff gallery in Seattle, ReeL had solo exhibitions at the Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington in 1979,[13] Seattle Pacific University[11] and the Cornish Institute of Allied Arts (later renamed the Cornish College of the Arts or CCA) in Seattle in 1984,[13] and the Jackson Street gallery in Seattle in 1983, 1984, and 1985[5] as well as exhibiting in one of the first exhibitions organized by the Center On Contemporary Art in Seattle in 1985.[13][5] ReeL exhibited in a two person show with Gary Hill at the And/Or Art Center in Seattle in 1981.[17][18]
ReeL participated in traveling exhibitions with Artists for World Peace (not the current organization of that name, but an earlier incarnation under that name) culminating in an exhibition in Kobe, Japan in 2000.[5] Other international exhibitions include exhibitions in Buenos Aires and Epocha Nueva: El Fuego del Futuro in 2010, Art for Global Development in conjunction with an international conference on ecologically sound development held in Washington, D.C. in 2016, and a similar exhibition in Seoul, South Korea in 2017.[5]
ReeL had his first museum solo exhibition at the Whatcom County Museum of History and Art in 1986, and a larger museum solo exhibition at the Morris Graves Museum of Art in 2016 following an exhibition that included a room of ReeL’s art at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Barbara in 2015.[3][19][20] He has also shown at the Seattle Art Museum, the Butler Institute of American Art, and the Center On Contemporary Art (COCA) in Seattle.[5]
Personal life[edit]
As of 2020 Reel resides with his wife, Rhonda P. Hill, in Portland, Oregon.[5]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Hudak, Tracy (4 April 2013). "A Painter With a View". VC Reporter: 18. Retrieved 19 May 2020.
- ↑ Olive, Ashley (21 October 2008). "Erik ReeL at Frameworks". Santa Barbara Independent.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Santini, Enrico (2008). Erik ReeL: Paintings and Drawings. Barcelona: Centaur Editore. Search this book on
- ↑ Westbrook, Leslie (October 2017). "Welcome To Planet ReeL". Ventana. 11 (8): 17–20. Retrieved 9 June 2020.
- ↑ 5.00 5.01 5.02 5.03 5.04 5.05 5.06 5.07 5.08 5.09 5.10 5.11 5.12 Kinoshita, Grace; Moen, Grace (2020). Erik ReeL 20 20. FAFAWAP FAFA World Art Publishers. pp. 2–6. ISBN 9780578724638. Search this book on
- ↑ Gannon, Sharon (2020). Magic is a Shift in Perception. Forward by Joshua M. Greene. New York City: Jiva Mukti. p. 33. ISBN 9781715469344. Search this book on
- ↑ Gannon, Sharon (2020). Magic is a Shift in Perception. Forward by Joshua M. Greene. New York City: Jiva Mukti. p. 35. ISBN 9781715469344. Search this book on
- ↑ Reel, Erik. "Visual Arts". Society Eight O Five. Retrieved 13 August 2021. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Reel, Erik. "Performing Arts". Society Eight O Five. Retrieved 13 August 2021. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ 10.0 10.1 ReeL, Erik (2021). Pterodactyl Cries: Art, Abstraction, and Apocalypse. cover design by Mark Dunst. Centaur Editore. ISBN 9781737550709. Search this book on
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Seattle Pacific University (2008). Erik ReeL: Face to Face (Exhibition catalog). Seattle: New World. Search this book on
- ↑ Quantum Dynamics of Painting (Exhibition catalog). University of California Santa Barbara. 2007. Search this book on
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 13.4 Arconi, Nikki (2016). Erik ReeL Painting: 1250-1456 (Exhibition catalog). Centaur Editore. Retrieved 19 May 2020. Search this book on
- ↑ Carlsson, Jae (2013). Erik ReeL: Tabula Rasa (Exhibition catalog). Centaur Editore. Search this book on
- ↑ Fields, Jaime (18 March 2021). "Alumnus artist Erik ReeL explores abstraction and mixed media in lecture". The Whitman Wire. Retrieved 15 August 2021.
- ↑ "Artists Biography and Facts: Erik ReeL". askART. Retrieved 13 August 2021. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Hackett, Regina (21 January 1981). "Gary Hill and Gary Reel at And/Or Art Center". Seattle Post Intelligencer.
- ↑ Hill, Gary (2000). Morgan, Robert C., ed. Gary Hill. PAJ Books: Art + Performance. London: Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 342. ISBN 0801864011. Search this book on
- ↑ Morris Graves Museum of Art (2016). Erik ReeL: Full Circle (Exhibition catalog). Eureka: Morris Graves Museum of Art. Search this book on
- ↑ Vonk, Nathan (3 February 2015). "Out of the Great Wide Open at MCS". Santa Barbara Independent. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
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