Amanda Reevesʼ paintings compellingly push up against boundaries of abstraction and representation. Approaching their construction intuitively and iteratively, Amanda allows the paintings to unfold their own structures, the spatial and color relationships within the paintings shift and expand in association with paired and surrounding works, extending perception beyond the frame.
Her early fascination with natural systems, their networks, and the creatures who inhabit them, initially drew her to study marine biology, where she could revel in the fantastical creatures and unknown realms. The rules did not seem to apply to the morphology of life under water. The visuals of strange and brightly colored creatures swaying and moving in the swells and currents embedded itself and is reflected in these works. These biological systems, so diverse and unique to their surroundings, had such exquisite specificity and yet seemed so fantastical; untethered and floating within the space they inhabit, seemingly weightless – interconnected, related, and yet abstract and nonsensical.
A team of rivals, 2025, Acrylic on canvas, 18 inches x 18 inches
Reeves’ paintings have whimsy and movement. The language of her shapes become imagined characters in the realm they inhabit, jumbled together, sometimes set apart, and at times interwoven and overlapping in ambiguous relationships with each other. Since graduating with honors from Ontario College of Art & Design University in 2005, Reeves has participated in numerous exhibitions. Her work is in the collections of the Bank of Montreal, Royal Bank of Canada, Medcan, Census Energy and EQ Bank, as well as private collections in Australia, Canada, Mexico, England and the U.S. Amanda was born in England, educated in Canada and now lives in Mill Valley. Reeves Is represented by Sapar Contemporary Gallery in NYC.
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