Rob Reynolds: Overview

Catalog designed for Anthony Meier Fine Arts
Essay by Tobias Rees
Conversation with Rob Reynolds and Emma Cline

from Anthony Meier Fine Arts website:
Overview takes its name from the overview effect—a total shift in consciousness typically experienced by astronauts when they see Earth from space for the first time. This is evident in Reynolds’ Earthrise paintings, which are based on the famous photo taken by William Anders, an astronaut on the Apollo 8 mission in 1968... The exhibition is also an ‘ overview’ of Reynolds’ work over the past ten years.
For his first exhibition at the gallery in 2011, Reynolds debuted a series of paintings that sit squarely in the intersection of abstraction and representation. Often overlaying his landscapes with bold text reminiscent of advertising, Reynolds plays his subjects against art historical movements such as minimalism and pop art. “Sometimes the text has a direct relationship and points to a book or a place that it's lifted from or refers to, and sometimes it's deeper, or oblique and spontaneous,” notes Reynolds.
Over the past decade, this body of work has developed into a larger series of iceberg paintings, which seemingly look like stock photographs but are layered in meaning. “His icebergs calve because of rising temperatures, they float in a sea heated by greenhouse gases, discharging drinking water into the sea, where it has the tendency to sink and disrupt marine ecologies and currents that are highly sensitive to changes in temperature and salinity,” notes Tobias Rees.

24 pages
8.5 x 11 inches