B. K. Reed, Guest Artist, UMWomen's 55th Annual Flower & Art Show:

Recent Works

 

Barry K. Reed was born in Memphis, Tennessee in 1936 and lived in California for a number of years before moving to Texas in 1952. He attended Texas A&M and the Los Angeles Art Center during the 50s, concentrating on automotive design and photography. Reed married Jennie Lynd Leyendecker in 1958 prior to military service and they traveled widely before returning to Texas , where he resumed his career as a network manager in the communications industry.

Father of three, Barry, Jr., (Adriana) and Michael (Mia Shaun) of Laredo and Victoria Lynd (Dr. Raul) Vela of San Antonio, with nine grandchildren, Reed resumed his interest in studio painting, which he considers to be a life-long learning process. Now in retirement, he is seldom without his sketch pads and cameras.

“After decades of precise and unforgiving electronic minutiae, it is a great luxury for me to escape into an art world totally lacking in constraints and bounded only by the extent of one's imagination,” said Reed. “In no other field of endeavor does the producer have the privilege of making a product any size, any color, on any subject and then describe it in totally nebulous and otherworldly terms. I love it. The paintings and photographs displayed here were mostly sponstaneous glimpses of things that interest me. Every artist is influenced by those who went before, and the viewer may notice a little of Edward Hopper or John Register in some of the paintings. The scenes of Coastal Califonia and San Miguel de Allende are some of my favorites. Two friends have had a great influence on my artistic efforts: Martha Fenstermaker and Blake Carroll; both superior artists and patient teachers.”