• BEN REEVES SEAWALL, 2024 oil on paper 16 x 12 in. $ 4,800.00

    BEN REEVES

    SEAWALL, 2024
    oil on paper
    16 x 12 in.
    $ 4,800.00
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  • In Snapshot, Ben Reeves focuses on the fleeting moments of everyday life. Reeves captures these passing images on his iPhone, heightening the sense of immediacy that they convey: the shadow of a streetlight cast on a wall at sundown, a bush of hydrangeas spilling over in full bloom, the beam of floodlights on a soccer pitch at night. Everywhere, Reeves is drawn to the quality of light. He carefully draws viewers into the atmosphere of his paintings by letting it filter across his work.

  • BEN REEVES UNIVERSITY COMMUTER, 2024 oil on paper 12 x 16 in. $ 4,800.00

    BEN REEVES

    UNIVERSITY COMMUTER, 2024
    oil on paper
    12 x 16  in.
    $ 4,800.00

  • Reeves transcribes his chosen images onto paper in fine strokes of oil paint. Paper’s inherent ephemerality allows Reeves a certain freedom: the ability to treat the material like a playground for his practice, which echoes the fleeting nature of the scenes he depicts. In Snapshot, Reeves uses his colour palette of purples, pinks, oranges, greens, and blues to elicit a sense of warmth. Despite the source material being crisp iPhone photography, the final images appear hazy or wispy, like a memory.

  • BEN REEVES SNOWSHOE, 2024 oil on paper 24 x 12 in. $ 7,200.00

    BEN REEVES

    SNOWSHOE, 2024
    oil on paper
    24 x 12  in.
    $ 7,200.00
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  • BEN REEVES WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHS, CITY PARK, 2024 oil on paper 16 x 12 in. $ 4,800.00

    BEN REEVES

    WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHS, CITY PARK, 2024
    oil on paper
    16 x 12 in.
    $ 4,800.00
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  • “I have thought about the paintings as a kind of snapshot and many of them use photos much more closely than most of my larger paintings. They are also diaristic in nature as they reflect my daily experiences of the past year. “
     
    - Ben Reeves
  • BEN REEVES NIGHT PRACTICE, 2024 oil on paper 12 x 16 in. $ 4,800.00

    BEN REEVES

    NIGHT PRACTICE, 2024
    oil on paper
    12 x 16  in.
    $ 4,800.00
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  • ARTIST BIO Ben Reeves grew up in Lynn Valley on the North Shore of Vancouver and currently resides in Tsawwassen,...

    ARTIST BIO

     

    Ben Reeves grew up in Lynn Valley on the North Shore of Vancouver and currently resides in Tsawwassen, a suburb outside of the city. The culture and landscape of the West Coast has always been a powerful source of inspiration in his work. Reeves paints from memory rather than source material and depicts fragments of his daily experiences, often in dream-like palettes of blues, pinks and yellows. Reeves is best known for the physicality of his surfaces, applying large mounds of paint to represent snow or rain while making no attempt to disguise its material construction. More recently, Reeves has employed burlap in place of canvas and added elements of collage to advance his exploration into the relationship between an image and its making. 

     

    Ben Reeves was born in 1969. He is an Associate Professor at Emily Carr University of Art + Design in Vancouver. He has exhibited his work extensively in Canada as well as in the United States, United Kingdom and China. In 2018, Reeves' survey exhibition, Floating Among Phantoms, was held at the Evergreen Cultural Centre in Coquitlam, British Columbia for which a catalogue was published. Other important exhibitions include The Painting Project: A Snapshot of Painting in Canada, Galerie de l'UQUAM, Montreal, 2013 and For the Record: Drawing Contemporary Life, Vancouver Art Gallery, 2003. Reeves' works are held in numerous collections including the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Vancouver Art Gallery and the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa.