The Artist Tom Reed

St. Louis-based artist Tom Reed (American, b. 1968, lives and works in St. Louis) combines a formal approach informed by such visionary “outsider” artists as Joseph Yoakum and Henry Darger with knowing and intensely stylized depictions of natural phenomena and rustic settings and situations. Reed talks about his work on the occasion of the exhibition Figure Studies: Recent Representational Works on Paper at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis on view January 27 - April 22, 2012.