ALAN REYNOLDS

Woodcut No. 3, No. 4, No. 1, 1998, handprinted on Hosho-Shi paper, 7,6 x 7,6 cm, 7,6 x 7,6 cm, 12,7 x 20,3 cm. photo Graham Murell.

Structured Group IV No. 15, 2000, prepared card on wood base, 117 x 117 x 1 cm.

It may be said that in sorne instances rational or logical procedures employed in the forming of a work can lead to a point from which the work may transcend its formal or physical self by way of intuition, if so it could then address the human spirit as art.
Ratio related areas of form (proportions) have their own life even prior to their assembly as a concretion or an object. Perhaps it is in the 'logical' method of working that we can attain a degree or depth of concentration which leads to a state of 'unawareness' in the artist.
What seems to occur is a fusion of both rational and the intuitive elements and the flux and flow of creativity comes into being. The units which comprise an object, a relief, a drawing etc have their own voice to speak and so prior to the assembly of the former they can also provide a dialogue - and they can also question our 'logic'!
Can there be creation without intuition? For my part the answer is no. Art is beyond formal logic - art transcends logic. Logic can take us through its disciplines to the point where we can perhaps begin in art it is no end in itself. When all has been considered, aptness of materials - formation itself. Ultimately it is for me the fusion of these factors - formal logic and intuition which can imbue a work with authenticity.

Alan Reynolds 1997

Alan Reynolds, 2001.

BIOGRAPHY
1926 Bom Newmarket, Suffolk, Great Britain.
1946 In Germany, first encounter with ' modern art. Saw first post-war exhibitions of German art of the 2O s and 3Os. Influenced by the paintings and writings of Paul Klee.
1948-52 Studied at Woolwich Polytechnic School of Art.
1952-53 Awarded scholarship to the Royal College of Art. Received medal for painting in first year.
1954-61 Taught drawing at the Central School of Arts and Crafts, London. Painted landscapes until 1958.
1958-66 Abstract paintings and watercolours, emphasis on pictorial construction and use of horizontal/vertical elements, concerned with space.
1961 Teaching painting at St. Martin's School of Art, London.
1967 Arts Council Purchase Award.
1969 First group of reliefs, painted wood, curvilinear in form. Influence of Sophie Tauber-Arp.
1975 Constructional reliefs. Form orthogonal, use of basic standardised elements, the subsidiary forms on these finalised through intuitive decision. Emphasis on printmaking; wood engravings and lino prints.
1976 Free-standing, painted wood constructions, partly standardised in form, but basically of an impro-visatory nature.
1978 First modular constructions and drawings working with cubic module. Relief constructions of a concrete nature.
1985 Appointed Senior Lecturer of painting at St. Martin's School of Art, London. Now retired.
Lives and works in Kent

ONE-MAN EXHIBITIONS
1952/ Redfern Gallery, London
3/4/6
1954/8 Durlacher Gallery, New York
1958 Leicester Galleries, London
1960/ Redfern Gallery, London
2/4/9
1972/4 Redfern Gallery, London
1978 Annely Juda Fine Art, London
1980 Galerie Renée Ziegler, Zurich (with Malcolm Hughes and Peter Lowe)
1982 Juda Rowan Gallery, London 1986 Juda Rowan Gallery, London
1982 Galerie Wack, Kaiserslautern
1990 Galerie Wack, Kaiserslautern
1990 Reperes at Galerie Lahumiére, Paris
1991 Annely Juda Fine Art, London
1992 Galerie Art In, Nurnberg
1995 Galerie Wack, Kaiserslautern
1996 Annely Juda Fine Art, London (with Malcolm Hughes) Städtische Galerie im Schloss, Wolfsburg, Germany
1996 Retrospective and Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen am Rhein Germany
1999 Galerie Wack, Kaiserslautern
2001 Annely Juda Fine Art, London
2002 Konstruktiv Tendens, Stockholm

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1950/1 London Group Exhibition
1952 Pittsburgh International
1953 International Watercolour . Exhibition, Brooklyn, USA
1955 Pittsburgh International Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome
1955 Musée Nationale d'Art Moderne, Paris
1955 Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels
1955 'British Contemporary Painting', British Council Exhibition, Oslo and Copenhagen
1957/60'Critic's Choice', Arthur Tooth and Sons, London
19 58/61 Pittsburgh International
1966 'Kupka gouaches - Reynolds paintings' Redfern Gallery, London
1971 'Spectrum Exhibition' Arts Council of Great Britain
1977 'British Painting 1952-77' Royal Academy of Art, London
1977 Galerie Loyse Oppenheim, Nyon, Switzerland
1979 Amnesty International, Bristol Cathedral and Institute of Education, London
1980 'Eight + Eight' Annely Juda Fine Art, London
1984 'Creation' Modern Art and Nature', Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh,
1985 'Small works' Juda Rowan Gallery, London
1985 'Twenty Five Years' Annely Juda Fine Art and Juda Rowan Gallery, London
1985/86 'Schwarz auf Weiss - Weiss auf Schwarz' Europé/USA 1945/1985, Galerie Renée Ziegler, Zurich
1986 'Works on Paper - Tribute to the C.A.S.', Juda Rowan Gallery, London
1986 'Systematic Constructive Drawings', The University of York
1986 'Trends in Geometric Abstract Art', The Tel Aviv Museum
1986 From Figuration to Abstraction', Annely Juda Fine Art, London
1986 'Konstruktivisme', Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek, Denmark
1987 'Mathematik in der Kunst (der letzten dreissigj ahre)' ,Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen am Rhein
1988 'Non-Objective World Revisited', Annely Juda Fine Art, London
1989 'Faszination Papier', Galerie Wack, Kaiserslautern
1989 'From Picasso to Abstraction', Annely Juda Fine Art, London
1989 '1959-1989 30 Years' Galerie Renée Ziegler, Zurich
1992 'Geometrisk Abstraktion XI', Galerie Konstruktiv Tendens, Stockholm
1992 'Juxtapositions', Annely Juda Fine Art, London
1992 'Reperes-Paris Dix Ans Pour L'Art Construit 1982-1992' Stiftung fur Konkrete Kunst, Reudingen
1993 'Forum - Konkrete Kunst Erfurt', Museum der Kunstler, Erfurt
1994 'Repéres - Paris Propositions pour l'Art Construit' Centre d'Art Contemporain de Saint-Priest
1994 'British Abstract Art', Flowers East, London
1994 'Multiple' Galerie Art In, Nurnberg
1995 'Konstruktive und Konkrete Graphik Geometrisierende Tendenzen der 20er Jahre' Pfaizgalerie, Kaiserslautern
1998 '3 Generations of British Constructivism - Kenneth Martin, Alan Reynolds, Nathan Cohen', Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1999 'Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts', Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen am Rhein
2000 'Plastische Graphik', Städtische Kunsthalle Mannheim

SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
City Art Gallery, Aberdeen
National Gallery of South Australia,Adelaide
Nationalgalerie, Berlin
Städtische Galerie Villa Zanders, Bergisch-Gladbach
City Art Gallery, Birmingham
Brighouse Art Gallery, Yorkshire
Brighton Art Gallery
City Art Gallery, Bristol
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Leopold-Hoesch-Museum, Duren, Germany
Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf
Musée d'Art, Grenoble
Bankfleld Museum, Halifax
Ferens Art Gallery, Hull
Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek, Denmark
Museum Pfaizgalerie, Kaiserslautern
City Art Gallery, Leeds
City Art Gallery, Leicester
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
The Arts Council of Great Britain, London
The British Council, London
Council for National Academic Awards, London
Contemporary Art Society, London
Ministry of Works, London
Tate Gallery, London
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafenam Rhein
Musée Des Ursulines, Macon
Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Newcastle Art Gallery
Nottingham Castle Museum
McCrory Corporation, New York
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Toledo Art Gallery, Ohio
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Bibliothéque Nationale, Paris
Ministry of Culture, Rheinland-Pfalz
Museum of Modern Art, Säo Paulo
City Art Gallery, Sheffield
City Art Gallery, Southampton
National Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
The Tel Aviv Museum
Wakefleld City Art Gallery
Contemporary Art Society, Wales
Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg

BIBLIOGRAPHY
Alan Reynolds, J.P.Hodin published by Redfern Gallery, London 1962
Modern British Painters, Sir John Rothenstein 1984
Dr Gisela Fiedler-Bender (introduction to the exhibition) Galerie Wack, Kaiserslautern 1986
25 Years of British Art - Portratt of the Artist Jorge Lewinski, published by Carcanet Press Ltd. Manchester 1987
Reliefs und Zeichnungen, Dr Gisela Fiedler-Bender (introduction to the exhibition) Galerie Wack, Kaiserslautern 1990
Alan Reynolds Relief Constructions and Drawings (introduction to the exhibition), Bryan Robertson published by Annely Juda Fine Art, London 1991
Reliefs und Zeichnungen, (introduction to the exhibition) Prof Dr Lorenz Dittmann, Galerie Wack, Kaiserslautern 1995
"Konstruktion und Intuition - Anmerkungen zum Werk von Alan Reynolds", Dr Susanne Pfleger, retrospective catalogue,
Städtische Galerie, Wolfsburg; Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen-am-Rhein 1996
Alan Reynolds - Regelkonstruktionen und Zeichnungen, Dr Richard Gassen and Dr Klaus Hoffmann (preface to exhibition catalogue) 1996
In Search of a Measured Beauty (introduction to the exhibition), lan Barker, published by Annely Juda Fine Art, London 1996
Alan Reynolds - "Reliefkonstruktionen und Zeichnungen", Dr Susanne Pfleger (introduction to the exhibition), Galerie Wack, Kaiserslautern 1999

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