Shelley Reed was trained as a colourist at the Museum School in Boston, where, as she puts it, she spent several years “splashing around lots of colour”. After a move to London, Reed instinctively began to pare down her palette. “Colour felt too seductive and I saw too much art in which colour was the main topic. I wasn’t interested in emoting on the canvas, either in colour or in content”. Reed’s move to London also prompted her exploration of Old Master Paintings. She started “dipping into handfuls of artists, usually 8 to 10 artists at a time, who were working during the same century”. “I would get very involved with a specific group, explore them for a few years and then move on”.
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SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2007
Sears-Peyton Gallery, New York, New York
2005
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
Mario Diacono Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
1993
Gallery NAGA, Boston, Massachusetts
1992
Zoe Gallery Boston, Massachusetts
1991
Bannister Gallery, Rhode Island College, Providence, Rhode Island
1990
Bess Cutler Gallery, New York, New York
AWARDS & HONOURS
2006
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
2005
Maud Morgan Award, Boston Museum of Fine Arts
The Artists’ Resource Trust Grant
1985
The Windsor and Newton Young Painter Award, London, England
1983
Boit Competition, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, Massachusetts
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts
The DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts
Bank of Boston, Boston, Massachusetts
Fidelity Investment Corporation, Boston, Massachusetts
Wellington Management Company, Boston, Massachusetts
Hallmark Collection, Kansas City, Missouri
Lila Acheson Wallace Collection, Pleasantville, New York
