Roland Reiss
Roland Reiss | |
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| Born | May 15, 1929[1][2] Chicago, Illinois |
| Died | December 13, 2020 (aged 91)[1][2] Los Angeles, California |
Roland Reiss (May 15, 1929– December 13, 2020) was an American artist known for his miniature tableaus and paintings.
Early life and education
Roland Reiss was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1929, during the Great Depression.[1] He moved with his family at age 13 to Pomona, California.[3][1] While he attended Pomona High School, he was inspired to become an artist after hearing Millard Sheets speak on art. He later studied art at Mt. San Antonio College and UCLA.[4] He served in the US Army as a Sergeant First Class, managing forty artists working at Camp Roberts.[3]
Career
Reiss began his art career as an abstract painter, however his work in the area gained little critical attention.[1] Reiss gained notoriety when he began producing miniature tableaux in the 1970s[5][6][7] that used plexiglass to encase or divide the scenes.[8] Reiss was included in the 1975 Whitney Biennial and in Documenta 7, held in 1982.[9]
In 1956, Reiss began teaching painting at the University of Colorado Boulder. In 1971, he was hired at Claremont Graduate University, where he headed the art department for 30 years. The university established an endowed chair in art in his name in 2010.[3][10] In his retirement, he directed Painting’s Edge, a summer artist’s residency for Idyllwild Arts from 2000 to 2007. In 2009, he received the College Art Association Award for the Distinguished Teaching of Art.[9]
Reiss' personal papers are held by the Smithsonian Archives of American Art.[11]
Collections
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art[12]
- Whitney Museum of Art, New York[13]
- Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art[14]
- Hammer Museum[15]
References
- ^ a b c d e "Roland Reiss dies at 91, leaving a 60-year legacy as L.A. artist and educator". Los Angeles Times. 1 January 2021.
- ^ a b Gallery, Diane Rosenstein (14 January 2021). "In Memory of Roland Reiss (1929-2020)". Artillery Magazine.
- ^ a b c "Roland Reiss (1929–2020)". www.artforum.com.
- ^ "Remembering artist Roland Reiss". Claremont Courier. Retrieved 2021-01-07.
- ^ Wilson, William (1984). The Los Angeles Times Book of California Museums. H.N. Abrams. ISBN 978-0-8109-0786-7.
- ^ Artforum. Artforum. 1977.
- ^ Art in America. Art in America, Incorporated. 1979.
- ^ Greenspan, Stuart. "Stuart Greenspan on Thirteen Sculptors". www.artforum.com.
- ^ a b "Honoring the Visionary Art and Inspiring Mentorship of Roland Reiss, 1929-2020 ·Claremont Graduate University". Claremont Graduate University. 18 December 2020.
- ^ "Major Phelps Gift Honors Work and Mission of Art Department ·Claremont Graduate University". Claremont Graduate University. 23 September 2020.
- ^ "Roland Reiss papers, circa 1960-2012". www.aaa.si.edu.
- ^ "Red Edge | LACMA Collections". collections.lacma.org.
- ^ "Roland Reiss". whitney.org.
- ^ "Roland Reiss". www.moca.org.
- ^ "Living Apart Together: Recent Acquisitions from the Hammer Contemporary Collection | Hammer Museum". hammer.ucla.edu.