Reynold Reynolds
2007
Six Apartments (still)
Two screen video projection loop transferred from 16mm / 12 mins.
Primarily working with film, Reynold Reynolds has developed disturbing psychological and physical themes with imagery based on transformation and trauma.
In 1999, RoeblingHall Gallery, New York, began showing Reynolds work. In 2003 he was awarded the John Simone Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship and in 2004 he was invited to The American Academy in Berlin with a studio at Kunstlerhaus Bethanien that enabled him to work in Berlin for one year. In 2006 The Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art showed his work and he began renting a studio in Berlin for the production of his work.
Since the mid-1990s, the artist has created an open-ended body of work that stresses meaning with aesthetics; it often uses moving imagery and sound to raise issues about denial and alienation, and increasingly it provokes the viewer's participation and dismay.
Reynold Reynolds was born February 4th, 1966, in Central, Alaska. He studied physics, and philosophy at the University of Colorado at Boulder from 1985 to 1989. After earning a B.A. he stayed for two more years at the university to study art and film under Stan Brakhage . He went on to study photography, in New York at the School of Visual arts, graduating with an M.F.A. in 1995. During the late nineties Reynolds experimented with Super 8mm and 16mm film as an art medium and often collaborated with Christoph Dreager and Patrick Jolley on art projects. His films showed in many international film festivals and won numerous awards. He supported himself editing feature films and directing commercials.