David Reed

David Reed (born 1946) is an American painter known for his large-scale, horizontally oriented canvases that blur the boundaries between abstraction and representation, combining gestural brushwork with airbrushed, optically seductive passages. His work engages deeply with the history of painting while also referencing cinematic imagery and contemporary visual culture, famously inserting his paintings into film stills from Alfred Hitchcock's 'Vertigo'. Reed is considered a significant figure in the continuation and reinvention of abstract painting in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.