The Marcia Reed Virtual Gallery
Introduction from the Editor
It gives me great honor and excitement to not only introduce The Marcia Reed Virtual Gallery , but Marcia Reed herself. Marcia was my high school art teacher. However, she became much more than that—she became my mentor and friend. Marcia taught me, really, what being an artist is all about (which is actually a good lesson for all). She taught me to believe in myself and in my dreams, and to work for the sake of doing good work and not to please others. Marcia too has lived a life for the sake of doing good work—following her heart and sense of integrity—verses trying to please others. She has taken many risks in her life, and has made many sacrifices in order to pursue her life's calling—art. And yet, within all this immense work, Marcia managed to take time out to help me believe in myself, and see that I had something valuable to offer through my art. Over the years Marcia has exhibited her work all over the world while always staying true to her vision as an artist—sometimes in the face of immense resistance. And in addition to following her soul's desires, she still understands the earthier parts of life and continues her “day job”. However, as someone who has seen first hand her performance of her, “day job”, teaching high school art—one would find it truly remarkable that any one would have yet another passion—and in her case she definitely does.
Besides wanting to honor and thank one of my favorite and most important teachers, I named the gallery after her because I believe she embodies the spirit of both the magazine and of the artist I wanted to present and celebrate. I hope you enjoy the show!
Jennifer Barnick, Editor
Marcia Reed
Landscape Painter
Watercolors-Oils-Acrylics-Pastels
Marcia Reed has taught and lectured at private schools and art colleges in the New England area. Currently she is teaching Painting and Design at Williston Northampton School in western Massachusetts since 1978. Her residence and studio in a Railroad Station is located in Easthampton, MA. She holds an MFA in Painting at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. Marcia has been painting for over twenty-three years and is represented in numerous private corporations and galleries that span Seoul, Korea; Skopje, Macedonia; Millbrook, NY; Fayetteville, AR; Santa Fe, NM; Northampton, MA; and Portland, ME. She is represented by three Galleries in the Caribbean, and most recently The Blue Turtle Gallery at Government Hill in St. Thomas. Marcia was also artist in resident during the summer months of 2000 at the Rockefeller resort Caneel Bay in the U.S.V.I. Since 1995 she has organized adult watercolor and acrylic workshops to the Island of St. John in the U.S. Virgin Islands. In the summer of 2000 The Maine College of Art in Portland, Maine recognized her excellent service as an instructor of Watercolor and presented a pin in appreciation of her tenth anniversary with the Art college. Marcia is also owner of her private gallery in the R.R. Station where she exhibits expressionistic landscapes in oils, watercolors, and acrylics. She is inspired by land and water motifs, whether painted on location or from “memory experience” in the studio. Her personal experience with nature is ultimately more important than factual information. She wants to pull the observer into the view to feel the vitality and exchange of nature. People may not realize it, but some painters labor to remove the ever-increasing evidence of man's presence. These painterly land/ waterscapes are loaded with feelings, vivid color, light, movement, and forms of the external world.
Painting Statement
“I've been told I have an unnatural Landscape palette which my response is to agree. I'm not interested in capturing the exactness of nature in my paintings of land/ waterscapes. I strive not to have my watercolors predictable, exact, and defined. I never work from photographs that provide information. I'm after departing from information. I work from my loose interpretation ink drawings, and sketches with black pilot pens of the landscape. In this way I then translate these drawings in to my own personal vision through paint directly embracing the place and location, the experience, the energy exchange between the elements, the ambiguity of color, the element of surprise, and searching for the balance of when to intervene and when to leave well enough alone.”
1 Railroad Street Gallery
Railroad Station
Easthampton, MA 01027
By appointment weekly
Open Weekends 11:00 am – 4:00 pm
(413) 527-9025
mreedinart@aol.com
Original works in oils, acrylics, watercolors, and mixed media.
Studio class instruction—call or email for information.
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