A.M. Richard Fine Art is pleased to announce an exhibition of new works by artist James Reeder.

Traditional stone arches, located in and around the New York State region, are the inspiration behind Mr. Reeder’s new photographs and related maquettes. Mr. Reeder has long been indebted to architecture in both subject (Big City, Perfect City, Dazzle Cities) and work process (building small scale models).

For lack of a travel purse, through meticulous research, Mr. Reeder collected vintage postcards illustrating various types of New York State stone arches. The artist then redrew the structures in pencil. Discarded materials such as paper shavings, Styrofoam packing peanuts, shards of clear plastic, bits of entangled threads and parcels of mesh are subsequently assembled in a composition against the drawings. The diorama-like constructions are then layered onto a lampshade to be photographed using a 35mm camera fitted with a macro lens. The resulting images, each a poetic ode to arches, offer a distorted and curious perspective. Within a Romantic tradition, a seemingly common road sight, the stone arch, is exposed as an element worthy of the sublime.

In these new works, Mr. Reeder embraces a novel semi-abstract aesthetic. Whilst early Reeder work commented on the crushing anonymity of modern metropolis structures, Stone Arches takes the viewer on a trip to bucolic serenity.

This is Mr. Reeder’s third showing at the A.M. Richard Fine Art gallery.