Tom Reed
Tom earned a Master of Fine Arts in printmaking from the University of Iowa, where he studied under Keith Achepohl, Bob Glasgow and Virginia Myers. After an offer from artist Tony Fitzpatrick, Reed moved to Chicago to work as a printer For Fitzpatrick’s Big Cat Press. After meeting Steve Campbell and collaborating with him on several projects, Reed was asked to work for Jack Lemon’s Landfall Press. He worked there for several years as the intaglio printer, collaborating with and printing works by Peregrine Hoenig, Ed Paschke, David Levinthal, John Buck, Sol Lewitt, and more.
He is the master printer at Island Press, Washington University in St. Louis’ collaborative print workshop housed in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Art, where he and colleague Lisa Bulawsky have worked hard to build and maintain the strong reputation of the press and a topflight print publisher.
Reed has maintained an active studio practice with exhibitions at Bruno David Gallery in St. Louis and group shows at the Contemporary Art Museum in St. Louis and the Elmhurst Art Museum.
Work by Tom Reed
Select Articles, Chapters, and Publications
- “Gone Fishing, in The Ladue News, 2023.
- "Mapping the Intermediary, Tom Reed’s “the in-between” at Museum Blue,” in St. Louis Magazine, 2016.
Select Exhibitions and Presentations
- “Wandering Light,” Fukui City Art Museum, Fukui Japan, 2023.
- “gone fishing,” Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis MO, 2022.
- “this is the before,” Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis MO, 2020.
