Ben Reeves is a former Sessional Instructo r and Printmaking Technician at UBC. He is currently Assistant Professor s pecializing in painting and drawing at ECIAD.
Artist Statement:
"In my work I am ruminating on how representations are internalized\, t
hen projected outwards--mapped onto the world. I am interested in how repr
esentation alters and shapes our physical experience and perception of real
ity. That painting operates as both image and substance parallels this unde
rstanding. Painting has a mediated and an immediate aspect. Otherwise insu
bstantial images are bodied forth with an inexorable physicality. My painti
ngs accentuate this duality with moments where thick paint insists on its m
ateriality--challenging the illusionism of the picture\, even as it is inte
gral to it."
Bio:
Ben Reeves studied at the University of B
ritish Columbia (BFA) and the Chelsea College of Art and Design in London\,
England (MA). Some exhibitions include: Smoke\, Flowers\, Cars at Jessica
Bradley ART+PROJECTS\, Complicated Matter at Museum London\; Drawing Painti
ng at the Oakville Galleries\; Shifting Space: Cultural Transformations at
the Sichuan Institute of Fine Art in Chongqing\, China\; the traveling show
\, Lines Painted in Early Spring (Southern Alberta Art Gallery\, Kamloops A
rt Gallery\; The Koffler Centre\, Tom Thomson Memorial Art Gallery\, and Ga
lerie de l'UQAM)\; High Points: Canadian Contemporary Art\, Ten Years of Re
cent Acquisitions at the Musee des Beaux Arts de Montreal\; and For the Rec
ord: Drawing Contemporary Life at the Vancouver Art Gallery. Ben is represe
nted by the Equinox Gallery in Vancouver and by Jessica Bradley ART+PROJECT
S in Toronto. He has been a Lecturer at the University of British Columbia\
, Assistant Professor (painting) at the University of Western Ontario and t
he University of Guelph\, and is currently Assistant Professor specializing
in painting and drawing at ECI.