That Hideous Strength
Lauchie Reid Solo Exhibition
Opening Reception:
Thursday, May 6th
From 7 – 10pm
Runs May 6th – June 6th, 2010
Using experiences formed through his art collective, Team Macho, Reid identifies with groups that grow out of a despondence for the bureaucratic and apathetic. Unwilling to conform, Team Macho created their own fraternity and constructed a mythology that both strengthened their cause and antagonized their counterparts. Remaining true to these rites, Reid explores this dynamic on a wider social plane, documenting the different routes that forward thinking individuals take when confronting external forces. Painting in oils and referencing depression-era characters masked in homemade costumes, Reid enforces his alliances with the various generations of the misunderstood and pays tribute to people unconcerned with the trappings of commonly accepted conceptions of success, whose personal imperatives drive them to eschew the conventional standard of happiness and dictate the terms of their own existence.
ABOUT LAUCHIE REID
Lauchie Reid is a Toronto-based artist and illustrator. Raised in Thunder Bay, Ontario, he attended Sheridan College for Illustration, where he met the other founding members of what would become Team Macho. Through collective work Reid developed a multi-faceted and diverse approach to image making that expresses a love for outmoded techniques and aesthetics, a bizarre sense of humour, and a sadly sweet view of childhood, family and personality. He has exhibited his work as a part of Team Macho in New York, Los Angeles, Berlin, Bordeaux, San Francisco, Montreal, and Amsterdam. Reid has exhibited with Magic Pony as part of Team Macho since 2005 and began exhibiting his solo work with Narwhal in 2008.
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Artwork
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Lauchie Reid
The Final Conclave
18 x 13 in. Oil on Board. 2010
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To Beyond!!
14 x 11 in. Oil on Board. 2010
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Turing Takes the Day
10 x 13 in. Oil on Board. 2010
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Three Sisters
13 x 13 in. Oil on Board. 2010
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Arm Your Children
12 x 19 in. Oil on Board. 2010
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Settling Things Like Gentlemen
16 x 12 in. Oil on Board. 2010
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Young Champions
14 x 10 in. Oil on Board. 2010
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Lauchie Reid
Cognitive Dissonance PT 1 & 2
9 x 40, 8 x 9 in. Dyptic. Oil on Board. 2010
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The Forceful Five
15 x 15 in. Oil on Board. 2010
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The Wild Hunt
18 x 13 in. Oil on Board. 2010
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To Arms
11 x 14 in. Oil on Board. 2010
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Lauchie Reid
The Beginning
11 x 14 in. Oil on Board. 2010