Ben Reeves

Canada Geese 2005	Geese, 2005	Car and Petals, 2007 Oil on canvas over panel 48 x 60 inches, 1.22 x 1.52 meters From: Ben Reeves: Smoke, Cars, Flowers
Smoker 3 (girl smoker), 2007 Oil on linen 30 x 36 inches, 76 x 91.5 cm From: Ben Reeves: Smoke, Cars, Flowers

Ben Reeves lives and works in Vancouver where he teaches at Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design. Reeves' drawings focus on the physical surface of painting. In these works he delineates each brush stroke from a painting paradoxically using a rigorous graphite contour line to produce the dense pattern of painterly gesture. These works highlight formal structures while causing the figurative image to slip away within an apparently abstract field: the language of representation supersedes its subject. Reeves investigates the inevitable gap between 'reality' and representation: a space where the world is rationalized through visual conventions. In 2005 Reeves' drawings were featured in a solo exhibition at the Oakville Galleries and in In Line, a group exhibition at Jessica Bradley Art & Projects. December 10, 2005 - January 17, 2006. Reeves will have a solo exhibition in September 2007.

Exhibitions
In Line
HABITAT
Ben Reeves: Smoke, Cars, Flowers