LARRY REESE: Show and Sale

Name: LARRY REESE: Show and Sale
Start: 2015-02-27T00:00:00
End: 2015-03-21T00:00:00

Feb 27, 2015 to Mar 20, 2015

February 21, 2015

5:08 PM

Meet and Greet Reception. February 27th from 5:00PM to 9:00PM.

Larry Reese "Country Road #1"

Born in Wisconsin in 1951 and immigrating to Edmonton, Alberta, Canada ten years later, Larry made his first impact on the art scene by winning a city wide contest to attend art classes at the Edmonton Art Gallery. There he was taught by the renowned Alberta artist, Sylvain Voyer. In 1966 his family moved to Dacca, East Pakistan where Larry learned to play the sitar, meeting Ravi Shankar in 1967 in Calcutta. Two years later Larry returned to Edmonton to pursue his music studies earning a degree in music composition at the University of Alberta. In 1971 Larry opened for British rock group, Procol Harum the night they recorded their platinum selling LP, Procol Harum – Live with the Edmonton Symphony. He toured North America with the Canadian Rock Opera’s production of Jesus Christ Superstar, and took UofA extension art classes with another famous Alberta artist, Harry Savage and family friend artist Harry Wolfarth.

Larry was off to Brandeis University near Boston Massachusetts to get a Master’s Degree in Acting in 1976 culminating in a stint at the famous off-off Broadway theatre, Café LaMama, NYC, in 1978. Larry’s first major role was in the Canadian classic film, The Hounds of Notre Dame, which over the years was followed by roles in Academy Award winning films including Clint Eastwood’s, Unforgiven and Ang Lee’s, Brokeback Mountain. Most recently Larry had a role in the Ridley Scott produced TV mini series, Klondike.

In 1983 Larry and wife Tanya Ryga went to Mexico and various places throughout South America, where Larry met and worked with German Expressionist artist Georg Rauch.

Larry Reese "Poplars and Canola"

After returning to Alberta Larry accepted a teaching position at Red Deer College where in 2001 he and colleague Don Armstrong founded the Motion Picture Arts program. It was in Red Deer that Larry met his long time friend and artist mentor, David More. Larry has had solo and group exhibitions in Central Alberta including a solo show at the Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery entitled, Mapping Creativity – A Journey of Transformations. It was at this time that he and filmmaker James Wilson made the feature length documentary film, Mapping Creativity, featuring the creation and process of a large six foot by nine foot painting, Guardians of the Sleeping Duck, which is now permanently on display at RDC.

In 2013 Larry was a finalist in the Cenovus Art Competition.