Chris Reid
Paintings
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Art Tour Hours: 10am-5pm
Regular Hours: by appointment
Artist Statement / Biography
Chris Reid, a respected New Hampshire artist, is known for her landscapes and still life paintings. Reid received a B.S. in Art Education at SUNY College in Buffalo, and trained at the University of Siena (Siena Italy), the American School of Crafts at the Rochester Institute of Technology (Rochester, NY) and NY State Colleges at Brockport and Buffalo, NY.
Reid’s work is noted for “its intense color and masterful use of light”. Art New England describes Reid’s work as being “rich in color”, and her landscapes have been praised for the “powerful abstract elements”. The juror’s statement for The Lovely Lines Award: “this piece shows such a profuse and complex use of ‘these lines’, that, when combined with a mature use of color, value and temperature…the viewer is brought into the experience: both the experience of the wetland depicted, and the experience of the act of creating…a work of art”. (M.Iselin, 2020)
Reid has been the recipient of numerous national and international awards, including the Connecticut Pastel Society 2018 Renaissance in Pastel Honor Award, the Ampersand/Pastel Journal Award, the 8th Annual National Juried Exhibition, the “Best in Show”, from the National Northeast Pastel Exhibition, the “Pastel Journal Award” from Maine’s 7th Annual International Juried Exhibit, the “Dick Blick Award” from the 4th Annual Northeast Pastel Exhibition, and the “Artist Clean Air Award” from the Pastel Society of America.
Current galleries include The Stan Fry Gallery (Peterborough, NH) and the Shaker Style (Chesham, NH). Reid is a juried artist of the NH Art Association, a juried associate of the Pastel Society of America, a member of the Pastel Society of New Hampshire, a member of the Connecticut Pastel Society, a member of Monadnock Art/FDAC. Chris Reid was an instructor at the New Hampshire Institute of Art in Manchester, NH from 2002-2007, a faculty member at the Sharon Arts Center, and teaches private classes.
Chris can often be seen working en- plein air capturing the rich fields, meadows, and farmlands of New England and recently completed a series entitled: Food, Travel, and Vineyards which was featured in Cook’s Cook Magazine.
RECENT EXHIBITIONS
One Person Exhibition, NH Art Association Gallery, Concord Chamber of Commerce, Main Street, Concord, NH, 02/-03/2021
Beyond Boundaries, Call of the Bees, NH Art Association’s 35th Annual Omer T. Lassond Juried Exhibit, Robert Levy Gallery, Portsmouth, NH, 3/30-5/30/2021
Before the Cut, Members Show, Connecticut Pastel Society, Affordable Framing Award, 3/21-4/25/2021
Winter Light, 2020 Selection PSEC Les Pastellistes, Societe De L’Est Du Canada (Pastel Society of Eastern Canada, Montreal, CA, 12/2020
Bee Conservency, 1st Place Prize, Harvest Fall Show, Gallery Sitka, Shirley, MA (this included a one hour zoom interview.), 11/2020
Celebration, The Central Massachusett’s Pastel Society on line exhibition, 9/2020
Just Before the Cut, Pastel Society of Maine 20th International Juried Exhibition, Pastels Only, 8/2020
Spectra, The Nation Association of Women Artists: Small Works and Beyond, 6/2020
Allegro, Lovely Lines Award, Pastel Societies of NH and Vermont Joint Show, Lebanon, NH, 2/2-3/29/2020
Allegro, (study) The Connecticut Pastel Society, Southington, Conn., Jack Richeson and Co. Award 5, 3/7/2020
24th Annual Open Studio, The Monadnock Art Tour, 10/12-14/2019
Inspired By Nature, Rhythm, Shadow and Light, Stan Fry Gallery, Peterborough, NH, Featured Artist, 5/13-7/28/2019
Beyond First Glance, 2 Person Show, NHAA, 2 Pillsbury Street, Concord, NH, 3/26-6/21/2019
Spectra, 25THAnnual Juried Exhibition, Renaissance in Pastel, UConn, Stamford Connecticut, 10/18-11/17/2018, CPS Honor Award
10th Annual “Its Pastel” Pastel Society of New Hampshire, Discover Portsmouth Center, Portsmouth, NH, 10/20-11/24/2018
23rd Annual Open Studio, The Monadnock Art Tour, Preview Sharon Arts Center, Open Studio, October 6,7 and 8, 2018
Heritage Farming, Pastel Society of NH Members Exhibition 2018, Splash of Color Award, 04/2018
22nd Annual Open Studio, The Monadnock Art Tour, Preview Exhibition Opening, Sharon Arts Center, Peterborough, NH 9/29/17, Tour 10, 10/7,8, and 9, 2017
NH Women’s Artists Give Back, Jaffrey Civic Center, Jaffrey, NH, 9/2017-10/2017
Pastel Society of Maine 18th International Juried Exhibition “Pastels Only”, The Brick Store Museum, Kennebunk, ME, 10/17-11/2017
A Place in Time, The Fells Historic Estate and Gardens, 7/17 – 10/17/2017
Spectra, 84th Annual Juried Exhibition, Hudson Valley Art Association, the Salmagundi Club, New York, NY, 2017
Visual Verse, An Exhibit of Art and Poetry Inspired by the Fells, 2017
Monadnock Farming: Our Heritage, Cunningham Gallery, Jaffrey, NH, 2016
Spectra, 8th Annual National Juried Exhibition, Winner of the Amersand/Pastel Journal Award, Pastel Society of New Hampshire, Portsmouth, NH, 2016
Reawaken, Pastel Society of New Hampshire’s 2015 Member’s Exhibition, Winner of Seacoast Pastel Painters Award. Jaffrey, NH, 2015