Con un umorismo irriverente e immagini essenziali Scott Reeder rappresenta un mondo apparentemente puerile e superficiale. Tuttavia il modo in cui l'artista tocca alcune tematiche ci fa intravedere la complessità del suo humour. Vi sono dei paralleli tra la sua facilità apparente a dipingere e le sue tematiche. Le immagini a volte sono scarne, come vuote o con un solo soggetto centrale ed i colori accessi ci riportano ad un suo uso elementare. Reeder sa perfettamente che la semplicità e' sempre complicata da ricercare, per questo forse i suoi dipinti rifiutano di prendere troppo seriamente la vita che infine si trasforma in uno show di intrattenimento.

I soggetti invece di essere potenti sono spesso semplici, come giocattoli inermi posati a terra o nature morte composte da uno o due oggetti. Molti dipinti rappresentano oggetti aventi colori intensi e luminosi alla Pierre Bonnard o Milton Avery, ma sempre con una satira che si orienta verso il lavoro di Duchamp. La scelta dei soggetti e' innocua e dà un' illusione di semplicità, forse espressione di una totale incertezza nella vita. La vera forza allora diventa il colore che appare preso dalla borsa delle matite del bambino, rendendo gestuale il dipinto."

Scott Reeder e' nato nel 1970 a Milwaukee, vive e lavora a Chicago.
Insegna dal 1993 alla -The School of the Art Institute of Chicago-, forse la scuola d'arte piu' importante degli Stati Uniti.
Recentemente ha esposto in una personale alla Daniel Reich Gallery di New York dove e' rappresentato.
Tra le mostre piu' importanti spiccano quella da Gavin Brown's Enterprise - NY, Gavlak Projects - Palm Beach, Jack Hanley - San Francisco, Midway Contemporary Art - Minneapolis, Museum of Contemporary Art - Chicago, Tate Modern - London, Milwaukee Art Museum -Wisconsin.

Oltre ad esporre, ha personalmente svolto numerosi progetti curatoriali tra i quali -Dark Fair - Cologne" Kolnischer Kunstrverin, Cologne - Germany, "Dark Fair" The Swiss Institute - New York
"Small Painting Show" Ulrich Museum - Wichita, Bumper Sticker Project" Wrong Gallery - New York.
A Luce Gallery esporrà la sua prima personale in Europa con una serie di nuovi dipinti.

--------------English Version

With irreverent humor and essential images Scott Reeder represents an apparently puerile, superficial world. Nevertheless, the way the artist approaches certain themes offers a glimpse of the complexity of his humor. There are parallels between the apparent ease of his painting and the themes themselves. At times the images are bare, as if emptied, or with only a single central subject, and the bright colors point to an elementary use of the medium. Reeder is perfectly aware of the fact that simplicity is always complicated to find, and perhaps this is why his paintings refuse to take life too seriously, transforming it into a show, into entertainment.

The subjects, instead of being powerful, are often simple, like helpless toys lying on the ground, or still lifes composed of one or more objects. Many of the paintings show objects with intense, luminous colors, like those of Pierre Bonnard or Milton Avery, but always with a satirical tone that drifts in the direction of the work of Duchamp. The choice of subjects is innocuous, conveying an illusion of simplicity, perhaps the expression of a total uncertainty in life. The true force, then, becomes the color, that seems to have been taken from a child's pencil box, giving the painting a gestural quality.

Scott Reeder was born in 1970 in Milwaukee, and lives and works in Chicago. Since 1993 he has taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, one of the most important art schools in the United States.
He has recently had a solo show at the Daniel Reich Gallery of New York, which represents him.
Important exhibitions include shows at Gavin Brown's Enterprise - NY, Gavlak Projects - Palm Beach, Jack Hanley - San Francisco, Midway Contemporary Art - Minneapolis, Museum of Contemporary Art - Chicago, Tate Modern - London, Milwaukee Art Museum - Wisconsin.

Reeder has also done many projects as a curator, including Dark Fair Cologne, Kolnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany; Dark Fair, the Swiss Institute, New York; Small Painting Show, Ulrich Museum, Wichita; Bumper Sticker Project, Wrong Gallery, New York. His first solo show in Europe will be held at Luce Gallery, featuring a series of new paintings.