Lucas Reiner

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Lucas Joseph Reiner (born August 17, 1960 in Los Angeles ) is an American painter , graphic artist and photographer . He is best known for his visual rethinking of painting and figuration without neglecting the haptic and classic properties of the design.

Career

Reiner grew up in a creative family in Los Angeles, the third child of Estelle and Carl Reiner . His paternal grandfather designed a clock for Emperor Franz Joseph before emigrating from Czernowitz to New York City . From 1978 to 1986 Reiner studied fine arts at the Parsons School of Design , the Otis Art Institute and the Parsons School of Design, Paris . He is married to Maud Winchester and works in Los Angeles and Berlin .

Exhibitions

Reiner has exhibited internationally since 1985, in Los Angeles , Milan , Munich , New York , Regensburg , Rome and Schwarzenbruck . He has had solo exhibitions with Bennett Roberts in Los Angeles, California (1995); Tricia Collins Grand Salon (1996); Griffin Contemporary (1998); Tricia Collins Contemporary Art, New York (1999); Pocket Utopia, Brooklyn, New York (2007); Roberts & Tilton (2003); Carl Berg Gallery, Los Angeles (2005); Pocket Utopia, Brooklyn, New York (2007); Galerie Biedermann (2008, 2012, 2017) and Galleria Tragghetto (2010).

In addition, his works have been part of group exhibitions, including “Left Coast. Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary Art ”at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art (2004); "Drawn" in the Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin (2014), in the Ace Gallery Beverly Hills (2013), "Landscape and Architecture" in the Irving Fine Arts Center (2012) and "Speak for the Trees" in the Friesen Gallery in Seattle and Sun Valley .

In 2009 Prestel Publishing published the book "Lucas Reiner: Los Angeles Trees, 2001-2008: Paintings, Drawings, Filmstills" by Petra Giloy-Hirtz, with an essay by Fred Dewey. 

Here Dewey compares Reiner's work process with “the old monk and poet Basho, about whom it is said that he went to the mountains to honor special trees”, even though Reiner usually approaches the trees by car. “The trees retain their character even though they are pruned for appropriate reasons. They are exposed to heat, light and earth, but above all to the cruel Ministry of Transport. "" The result is a peaceful appeal for reflection and ultimately a hint of the story and the mystery behind the figure. "

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Color field painting

"After he started with minimalist paintings, Reiner painted characters and word fragments in the urban landscape, influenced by the work of other Los Angeles artists, such as Ruscha , Diebenkorn and Celmins."

Reiner's abstract paintings have also been compared to the works of Mark Rothko and Cy Twombly. The critics were quick of the opinion that with his color field painting he worked out everyday experiences very skillfully in certain color palettes. Toby Crocket noted how "Reiner's controlled approach creates a template by which the world can be reduced to its details full of sincere feelings."

City tree pictures

After spending some time in the Michigan woods in 2001, Reiner turned his attention to the trees around him in Los Angeles. In response to the way urban trees are regularly abused by trucks, sidewalks and careless passers-by, he created tree portraits. Fred Dewey wondered why it took so long for contemporary artists to address the issue of the suffering of urban trees after Frederick Law Olmsted witnessed the brutal pruning of trees as early as 1870. 

Eve Wood noted that "These dense little paintings are more than just idyllic depictions of [urban] trees, but rather capture their shape and movement, as well as a kind of meaningful presence." By looking at Reiner's tree paintings, their titles reflect the exact location, Petra Gilroy-Hirtz noted that the trees in Los Angeles are crooked, "battered, strangely trimmed, trimmed by traffic, streaked by trucks, cropped to create a view of billboards, alienated by Christmas decorations or graffiti."

In response to the painterly quality of Reiner's tree paintings, Nicholas Grader notes how “certain individual trees ... float against delicately colored, abstract backgrounds reminiscent of Phillip Guston's early work. The tension between accuracy and the general appearance of the gestural background deliberately drives the viewer not only to look at the trees as motifs in portraits, but also to reflect on one's own relationship to trees in everyday life. ”Petra Giloy-Hirtz adds: “Ultimately, the tree is not an uncommon topic in art history. It is less about the phenomenology of the tree and more about the possibilities of matter. ”Regarding Reiner's relationship to his subject matter, Dewey adds that“ the connections between Reiner's work and that of the painter Giorgio Morandi are clear. Morandi repeatedly painted pictures with a bottle and landscape and thus went to the limits of depicting reality. "

Movies

  • Golden Cup (2000)
  • Trees in Los Angeles (2005)

Teaching assignments

Reiner has taught young students at the Art Division (2011) and Otis College of Art and Design (2007). He has also been a visiting lecturer at numerous institutions, including the American Academy in Rome , California State University in Northridge, Oberlin College , Myers School of Art, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa and the Università luav di Venezia.

Collections

Individual works are in the possession of the American Embassy in Riga , Latvia; the Santa Barbara Museum of Art , the Colección Jumex, the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München , the Diözesanmuseum Freising and the West Collection.

Single receipts

  1. ↑ Petra Gilloy-Hirtz (Ed.): "Lucas Reiner's Los Angeles Trees." Los Angeles Trees, 2001-2008. Prestel, 2008.
  2. ↑ Lucas Reiner. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved June 17, 2017 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.lucasreiner.com  
  3. ↑ Toby Crockett. "Lucas Reiner at Bennett Roberts." “Art in America”. May 1996.
  4. ↑ Steve Mumford. "Lucas Reiner." “Zing” magazine. Winter / Spring 1997.
  5. ↑ http://www.lucasreiner.com/artnet03.html .
  6. ↑ http://pocketutopia.blogspot.de/2007/10/mather-miller-reviews -lucas-reiner.html
  7. ↑ http://made-in-muenchen.net/der-himmel-uber-berlin-ist-so-nah-dr-petra-giloy-hirtz-im- talk-mit-dem-kunstler-lucas- reiner-in -der-gallery-biedermann /
  8. ↑ Fred Dewey. "If We are Lucky." Los Angeles Trees, 2001-2008 . Munich. Prestel. 2008.
  9. ↑ Fred Dewey. Trees and Words . Venice. Beyond Baroque. 2004.
  10. ↑ Fred Dewey. "If We are Lucky." Los Angeles Trees, 2001-2008 . Munich. Prestel. 2008.
  11. ↑ Fred Dewey. "If We are Lucky." Los Angeles Trees, 2001-2008 . Munich. Prestel. 2008.
  12. ↑ Toby Crockett. "Lucas Reiner at Bennett Roberts. Art in America . May 1996.
  13. ↑ Petra Giloy-Hirtz. "Lucas Reiner's Los Angeles Trees." Los Angeles Trees, 2001-2008 . Munich, Prestel. 2008.
  14. ↑ Fred Dewey. "If We are Lucky." Los Angeles Trees, 2001-2008 . Munich. Prestel. 2008.
  15. ↑ Eve Wood. "Implied Narratives." Artnet. January 27, 2003.
  16. ↑ Petra Giloy-Hirtz. "Lucas Reiner's Los Angeles Trees." Los Angeles Trees, 2001-2008 . Munich, Prestel. 2008.
  17. ↑ Nicholas Grider. "Minimalism, Theatricality, and You." '' Artslant. '' September 9, 2007.
  18. ↑  Petra Giloy-Hirtz. "Lucas Reiner's Los Angeles Trees." Los Angeles Trees, 2001-2008 . Munich. Prestel. 2008.
  19. ↑ Fred Dewey. "If We are Lucky." Los Angeles Trees, 2001-2008 . Munich. Prestel. 2008.
  20. ↑ http://www.lucasreiner.com/resume.html

Web links

Lucas Reiner's website

personal data
SURNAME Reiner, Lucas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reiner, Lucas Joseph (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American painter, printmaker and photographer
DATE OF BIRTH 17th August 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH los Angeles