About the work

Tyson Reeder is a painter of everyday life, setting up his easel outdoors using painting as one would command an iPhone to take pictures of buildings, deploying a vast array of academic as well as self taught painterly modes. Compositionally his subject matter appears in distorted perspective, that he shares with expressionism’s ego-oriented visual regime. Formally the work of Reeder embraces archaic modernist registers, such as a vivid palette that he has in common with the fauvists. Technically Reeder is known for mixing painted areas with pencil hatching and dotted fields, making his work instantly recognisable as playful, poetic, seductive and mildly hallucinatory.

About the artist

TYSON REEDER (b. 1974 Fairfax, USA) lives and works in Chicago, USA. He holds a BA from Montana State University, Bozeman and BFA University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

Tyson Reeder’s work has been the subject of international exhibitions most recently at Office Baroque, Brussels; CANADA, New York; The Hills Esthetic Center, Chicago. Institutional presentations include Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit; Art Institute of Chicago; Museum of Modern Art Library, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison.