1878 Gallery
January 13 – February 25, 2018
Opening Reception Saturday, January 13, 2018
6:00 – 9:00 PM
Artist talk at 6:30 PM
Cary Reeder
Impermanence
Impermanence is an exhibition from a new series of paintings and cut-paper works by Houston artist Cary Reeder. Feeling unmoored by a diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis in 2014, Reeder began this series as a means to explore themes of loss and renewal using nature-based imagery as her muse. With Impermanence, Reeder interprets trees, hands, paths, and portals through bright, highly-saturated paintings and cut-paper painted collage works. Reeder describes her personal relationship with the subject of these works as “a metaphor for my hands and fingers, their craggy knots resembling my joints and veiny lines mimicking mine, and the paths that they shade, symbolic of a journey with an unknown end.” Having primarily exhibited paintings in her past, these new cut-paper works mark a new direction in her practice.
Cary Reeder, a Miami, Florida native, has made Houston, Texas her home since 1998. She worked for more than a decade as a graphic artist and typesetter in the early 80s and received her fine art training at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston’s Glassell School of Art. In between her stint as a graphic artist and returning to art school, she had a 20+ year career as a grant writer and fundraiser for nonprofit organizations. Her work has been included in numerous local, regional, and national juried exhibitions, along with solos shows at the Optical Project (2016) and Lawndale Art Center (2013) in Houston. She received an Individual Artist Grant from the Houston Arts Alliance (2013), was twice featured in New American Paintings (Issues #108 and #120), and was a Hunting Prize Finalist (2014). Reeder currently teaches at the Art League Houston.
