About Mark Reid Fine Art Photography
Pushing the limits of imagination with photography has always been a priority in my creative process. Be it film, chemistry, layering negatives in an enlarger or on a computer, I seek to create images that go beyond a mere duplicating of the original scene.
Drawing inspiration from compositions with strong forms and bold colors. My approach is to extract a portion of a larger view pushing the image to a point of abstraction. I have always been fascinated with integrating color, texture, and form into patterns that complement and contradict each other.
My compositions and choice of subjects are intuitive. I don’t plan what to photograph when I go out to make images. Instead I search for objects waiting to see what draws my attention enough to recognize something that breaks a pattern and creates a strong composition from a cluttered environment.
I create imaginary scenes by layering elements together that are unconstrained by linear time and physical location. By choosing elements that work together to communicate my vision, I am able to create composite images more powerful than the individual parts.
“Mark is a damn fine photographer!!”
Cole Weston
“Mark's photographs serve as a kind of lens conducting the imagination of the viewer beyond the material and formal attributes of photography to a consideration of the myth of art itself and what in its most exalted manifestation the artist believes what art does.”
The Salt Lake Tribune
“Reid reduces the environment within his lens to its essence capturing an irreducibly abstract composition, as beautifully balanced as his predeceasing Modernists.”
Focus Santa Fe
Selected Exhibitions:
Quay School of Fine Arts, Whanganui New Zealand
Bang and Olufsen Istinye Park, Istanbul Turkey
ARWI International Art Fair, San Juan Puerto Rico
Bang and Olufsen an der Borse, Frankfurt Germany
Images Gallery, New York City
Galeria Galou, Brooklyn
New Mexico Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe
Farmington Museum, Farmington, NM
Blue Spiral 1, Asheville, North Carolina
Los Angeles Center For Digital Art
Infusion Gallery, Los Angeles
Denver Art Museum
Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins
Eye and I Gallery, Denver
Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, Connecticut
Ohr-O'Keefe Museum of Art, Biloxi, Mississippi
Camerawork Gallery, Portland, Oregon
PhotoZone Gallery, Eugene
Newport Visual Art Center, Newport, Oregon
Corvallis Arts Center, Corvallis
Guistina Gallery, Oregon State University
Sunbird Gallery, Bend Oregon
Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City
Salt Lake Art Center
Utah Museum of Natural History
Brigham Young University
Kimball Arts Center, Park City
Weber State College
Eccles Community Art Center, Ogden
Phillips Gallery, Salt Lake City
Gayle Weyher Gallery, Salt Lake City
The Cliff Lodge, Snowbird
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
Columbus Museum of Arts and Sciences
Columbus State University
Selected Collections:
Denver Art Museum
High Museum of Art
University of Oregon, William W. Knight Law Center
Utah Museum of Fine Art
Utah Art Council
AT & T
Snowbird Institute
Columbus State University
Columbus Art Museum
Publications:
Trilogies 2022 from LensWork
Focus Santa Fe, June/July 2008
Spectra ’07 National Photography Biennial
Silvermine Guild Arts Center catalog, New Canaan, Connecticut, October 2007
Ana 35: A National Juried Exhibition
Holter Museum catalog, Helena, Montana, August 2007
Ponderosa Promise: A History of U.S. Forest Service Research in Central Oregon, Les Joslin, 2007
Five Magazine Volume 14, April 2007
Photoshop CS2 Artistry, Authors Barry Haynes and Wendy Crumpler, 2007
Mistry Guild, the true oracle of poetry & art, Vol 1, 1999
Charting The Future: A Strategic Plan for the Pacific Northwest Research Station, 1996
Wisconsin Natural Resources magazine, April 1995
Pierpont Tapestries, Salt Lake Art Center 1988
2020 Vision, Utah Arts Festival Foundation, Inc. 1986
Columbus State University; Spectrum Productions Columbus State University 1972-73
Aperture, Spectrum Publication Columbus State University 1973 and 1974