October 26 – December 7
(Main Gallery)

Forgotten Places explores sites of uninterrupted wilderness untouched by human activity hidden in plain sight. The exhibition seeks to shed light on the ways human activity is entangled with natural systems, which continues to reverberate throughout the broader scope of Reid’s nearly forty-year artistic career. Focusing specifically on pockets of nature that have remained unscathed and unaffected by industrialization, deforestation and urban expansion to highlight the complex collision between nature and culture.

Forgotten Place, Field Ravine
2024
acrylic on canvas
72 x 120 inches
$35,000

Syndeham Lake
2022
watercolour and pastel on paper
17 x 21 inches (framed)
$1,200

The artwork assembled reveals a complex portrait of the terrain as ancient, complex and constantly evolving. Depicting pockets of untouched wilderness that found along the edges of roads, alongside forests located along former industrial zones that have that gone without human impute for nearly 150 years, Reid reveals how layers of time, cycles of growth and decay, are mapped onto the landscape.

Rockside Swamp15-Jan-21
2021
watercolour and pastel on paper
26 x 49inches (framed)
$4,600

“Hemmed-in by farmland, forgotten ravines conceal small tracts of old-lineage forest. On the Escarpment, areas that were once quarried have been abandoned and now return to a state of wildness. This new anthropocene forest has emerged from a collision of human and natural forces.”

Forest
2022
acrylic on canvas
37 x 32 inches
$4,200

Tangle 28-Sept-22
2022
acrylic on paper 
37 x 37 inches (framed)
$4,200

The artist bears witness to the transformation of the landscape over the last half-century. His paintings act as a time capsule, capturing a single moment in time when the past and the future converge onto these sites. In many of these locations native species continue to thrive and new species propagate, despite the impact of outside forces. Their relative isolation from civilization has helped preserve their original character, while at the same time reflecting how they have developed alongside culture.

Forgotten Place, July
2024
acrylic on canvas
76 x 120 inches
$35,000

Feral 2
2003
acrylic on canvas
72 x 60 inches
$18,000

Rockside Woods 10-Nov-23
2023
watercolour and pastel on paper
17 x 21 inches (framed)
$1,200

Forest Edge 14-06-19
2019
acrylic on plywood
18 x 18 inches
$2,000

Early Spring Forest 6-04-19
2019
acrylic on canvas
48 x 48 inches
$10,000