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Art of Design and Investment
2511 South Winchester Blvd. 
Campbell, California 95008
408: 374-6441

June 6, 1974
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

ADI GALLERY SOUTH, 2511 South Winchester Blvd., Campbell, will be presenting an exhibition of recent paintings by Robert Reid.  Mr. Reid has been widely acclaimed in the East, and he as several successful one-man shows in New York City to his credit.  This will be his first solo exhibit on the West Coast.

This exhibit is comprised of seven oils and twelve watercolors, poetically and symbolically evocative of beach and sea imagery.  Edith Carlson has written about Mr. Reid's work:

"A sense of affinity with the thoughts of Camus, who saw an entire age in exile from the beauty of the sea and for whom the sea had a 'cleansing and, in a wider sense, redemptive' quality, is conveyed in these works. .... The transparency of the color creates a succession of spiritual moods in these paintings.  As the passage of a day, a season, or life, contains all lights, so the paintings move from a gold-filled morning through sobering greys to a sun that has darkness, but ultimately the light is invincible and this is clearly stated in the luminous watercolor drawings that complete the show."

Charlotte Lichtblau of ARTS MAGAZINE in reviewing his work has said, "Reid's colors are really hues which appear breathed on to the canvas in radiating light.  This light curiously suggests dark shadow areas even where one seems to see merely light surfaces.  It takes an enormous amount of intelligence, tact, certainty and craftsmanship to convey such total vision with such refined discretion."