“Down”
12 × 10″
Egg Tempera on Hardboard
2010
“The Gathering Storm”
12 × 20″
Egg Tempera and Oil on Hardboard
2010
“Gave Up the Ghost”
14.25 × 16.50″
Egg Tempera and Oil on Hardboard
2010
“Goodlands”
12 × 16″
Egg Tempera and Oil on Hardboard
2010
“In a Tree Top”
10 × 8″
Egg Tempera and Oil on Hardboard
2010
10 × 8″
Egg Tempera and Oil on Hardboard
2010
“Lost in Wonderland”
10 × 12″
Egg Tempera and Oil on Hardboard
2010
“Lotusland”
10 × 8″
Egg Tempera and Oil on Hardboard
2010
“Ride My Bones”
12 × 16″
Egg Tempera and Oil on Hardboard
2010
“South By Northeast”
13.25 × 27″
Egg Tempera and Oil on Hardboard
2010
Artist’s Statement – “Gone West”
Gone West was an expression used in the air force during wartime to describe a brother-in-arms who was shot down and killed in combat. When pilots gather, they often open meetings with a toast to those who have “gone west”. They face the west and drink to those who have died. West, in this case, refers to the place the sun sets and extinguishes; the metaphor is clear. This somehow softens the reality of death in a line of work rife with mortality. Bonni Reid has co-opted this expression in titling her most recent body of paintings. Representing transformation, passage, and change, the title takes on an added, metaphysical tone, not unlike the Death card in a tarot deck. this exhibition features all new, never-before-seen work.