Multi talented with accomplishments as an abstract painter, installation sculptor, and video artist, Reed's goal is to embrace conscious and unconscious time, human intellect and emotions. Many of his images are from art history such as Italian Baroque and works by Degas and Delacroix.

He was born in San Diego, California and in 1968 earned a B.A. Degree from Reed College in Oregon. He also studied at the New York Studio School and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine. Originally he planned to be a doctor, but study with realist painter Willard Midgette inspired him to change direction.

He became a New York based artist who early in his career did figurative subjects. Then he traveled in the West, especial...