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Michael Reck - Affiliate

Michael Reck

All We Know

20"x16" acrylic on panel, 2018, $900

twill pattern matrix of black, white and gray dripping brush marks

Fall and Rise

20x16" acrylic on panel, 2018, $900

twill pattern matrix of black, white and gray dripping brush marks

Fecund

20x16" acrylic on panel 2018, $900

twill pattern matrix of black, white and gray dripping brush marks

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Little Birdie

20"x16" acrylic on panel, 2018, $900

twill pattern matrix of black, white and gray dripping brush marks

Midstream

20"x16" acrylic on panel, 2018, $900

twill pattern matrix of black, white and gray dripping brush marks

Spawn

20"x16" acrylic on panel, 2018, $900

twill pattern matrix of black, white and gray dripping brush marks

Surmountable Odds

Surmountable Odds

20"x16" acrylic on panel, 2018, $900

twill pattern matrix of black, white and gray dripping brush marks

The Beholders

20"x16" acrylic on panel, 2018, $900

twill pattern matrix of black, white and gray dripping brush marks

Artist Statement

Michael Reck creates abstract paintings that explore pattern, movement, repetition, and the tension between order and chance. Working primarily with acrylic on panel, he builds compositions from layered and gestural marks, often combining geometric structures with dripping, irregular brushwork.

His paintings suggest systems that are simultaneously organized and unstable. Grids, matrices, repeated forms, and contrasting black, white, and gray marks create a visual language in which structure begins to break apart. The resulting works invite close observation, allowing details and relationships to emerge gradually.

Titles such as All We Know, Fall and Rise, Fecund, Midstream, Spawn, and Surmountable Odds introduce suggestive ideas without prescribing a single interpretation. Reck’s work balances abstraction with implication, creating paintings that are open-ended, energetic, and contemplative.

Instagram: @mchlrck

Biography

Michael Reck is a New York-based contemporary artist whose practice focuses on abstract painting. Working primarily in acrylic on panel, Reck combines geometric patterns, grids, and repeated structures with expressive and gestural brushwork.

His paintings explore the relationship between order and disorder, repetition and variation, and structure and movement. Works such as All We Know, Fall and Rise, Fecund, Little Birdie, Midstream, Spawn, Surmountable Odds, and The Beholders demonstrate his interest in creating complex visual systems through the accumulation of marks and patterns.

Reck received his BFA from The Cooper Union in New York City in 1988. He has presented solo exhibitions in New York, including Luxuria in 1999 and Hawks, Hummers, Flickers, Peckers, Suckers & Swallows in 1993.

His work has been exhibited at Viridian Artists Gallery, White Columns, Metro Pictures, CRG Gallery, ZieherSmith Gallery, and other venues in New York and the United States. He has also participated in Postcards From the Edge, The Strange Power of Cheap Sentiment, and numerous group exhibitions.