Draft:David Cyril Reynolds
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David Cyril Reynolds (b. November 04 1948) is a visual artist. He was born in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. He received a BA in Fine Art from The University of Guelph (1979) and a MFA from The Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University (1981). He is married to M Carol Leber who was employed at the United Nations (NYC) for 32 years until her retirement in 2013. www.davidcreynolds.com
Early Life He started his art career in 1970 when he took up photography as a response to what he thought was a boring career in accounting. Self taught he researched photography through its chemical and physical characteristics and build his first darkroom that year. After 9 years of self learning he decided it was time to get serious and enrolled in photo classes at Ryerson Polytechnic in Toronto. Already considering himself quite educated in the technical aspects of photography he enrolled in the Fine Arts program at the University of Guelph receiving a BA in Fine Art. He then pursued a MFA at Rutgers University (1981) where he studied with Leon Golub. While at Rutgers he meet Martha Wilson (Director of the Franklin Furnace) and began doing photo documentation of the performance series at the Furnace. After graduating he moved to New York City. His friendship and working relationship with Golub continued through many years until Leon's death in 2004. He also worked closely with Leon Golub's wife Nancy Spero for many years until Nancy's death in 2009.
Career After graduating from Rutgers University and moving to New York City; he arrived at a time (1982) when the art world (especially NYC) was undergoing a boom . Settling in Tribeca, he set out to make artworks. After 6 years of attending art schools his work morphed into painting and sculpture as well as photography. His grandfathers; one owned and operated a printshop, the other a master pattern maker at General Motors, had given him skills in these forms throughout his childhood as well. All these skills proved to be important. He financed his own artworks by working with other artists on their artworks; saving him from having to work in restaurants etc as most young artists had to support their art making by these other means. In addition to the Artists mention above he worked for 10 years (1981 to 1991) with the French artist Arman. Both building sculpture in his workshop and then photographing them for publication. His own work spanning 1970 through 2012 has possessed political content that has made it non-commercial in a one sense and difficult to exhibit. He has shown his work in the 1980's during the East Village era at the Cash Gallery and other venues such as the Alternative Museum "Concrete Crisis" (NYC 1987) The Pompidou's "Facing History" (Paris, 1996). He also worked with Act Up in New York to design and build the "Act Up Art Box" 1994. It sells raised money during the Aids crisis to fund Act Up activities. He has exhibited a survey of his work by way of 4 exhibitions (2006,2007,2009,2011) at the David Kaye Galley Toronto [1]