Victoria Reynolds paints pictures of meat, such as the “Flight of the Reindeer” pictured above. She doesn’t limit her oil-on-panel works to just unprocessed flesh, but also has a few pieces showing what appears to be pimento loaf.
Does her art have any message? I have no clue, but it’s technically excellent and—in case you missed it—meat.
Reynolds’ Gallery Page [Richard Heller Gallery]
Amazing. I would hang one of these in any room. It almost makes me want another corned beef sandwich (what i just had for lunch).
That painting looks vaguely naughty.
Those are great. They’re priced pretty high, but then again they’re actual paint, not inkjet er “giclee” so they’re one of a kind. Maybe when I win the lottery I can afford such things.
Looks like a cat turned inside-out to me. I suppose you can call this art.
These paintings are technically very good but lead to questions regarding the sanity of the painter. Why would anyone want to put their consciousness so much on the destruction of a life, of a body? I hope that dissections on the kitchen table of hapless animal victims are not contributing to this. I, along with I hope many others, will never purchase this type of art. When we look at our walls we want to see something beautiful and inspirational not the remains of something that was violently forced from life before it’s natural time.
Victoria is a fabulous painter. She does not kill animals just to paint them. Instead she makes herself available when animals are being slaughtered for food and takes pictures. Or, she might purchase meat or fish at the local meat market for her subjects. I took a painting class from her and although she might be considered a bit of an odd ball, she is not crazy, nor does she disect animals at her kitchen table.
Flight of the raindeer is, I believe, one of the best paintings Victoria Reynolds has blessed our world with. It is technically strong and brings the viewers to ask themselves a lot of questions, and that is, in essence, the true purpose of art. It is not so the subject of Miss reynolds’s paintings that throws us off, but what we believe may have happenned before the shot was taken. In fact, these paintings are nothing nore than peaceful depictions of something we are not used to see in that light. There is no violence to the subject but the one that we put there ourselves. The animals we think of when viewing such paintings may not not have died the painful death our brains tell us they did; they might in fact still be alive, and what we are seeing is the dance animating them fom the inside. It all depends on what we think before we see the paintings. The making of art is a work of the heart, truly, and its appreciation is a work of the mind. Chapeau, Miss Reynolds.
I would like to make a slight adjustment to my previous comment. Let us understand that it applies mostly to Flight of the raindeer and other earlier work. In the last years, Victoria Reynolds has given a truly realistic twist to her paintings, in a way that there are no mistakes to be made about the fate of the owner of the parts depicted, raindeers mostly. Although is makes her art this much less accessible, and a lot harder to view by some, it retains a strong sense of beauty. What could have been seen as a poetic essay in Flight of the raindeer is now a cold tale of butchery in Raindeer slope, and has a scientific taste in Uteral bonnet. And I believe it all makes her work this mush stronger. Much less accessible, but just as effective.
Victoria Reynolds was my art teacher last year..she was so nice teacher