Leon Reid

Leon Reid IV -Greenpoint artist of over 20 years- will display his collection of sculptures, paintings and drawings examining the impact of technology on society. Screen addiction, surveillance, capitalism, the nature of free will are just some of the themes explored in Reid’s body of work titled TECH-ART: Soul for technology®.

Tech-Art: Soul for Technology® is the current body of work by American artist Leon Reid IV (b. 1979). Existing across a broad scope of media from painting, drawing, and sculpture and organized into "Collections" such as 3D Print Portrait™, Pixel Composition™, Load Paintings™, this new oeuvre is a colorful interpretation of the look and feel of the information age. Much of the playfulness in Tech-Art: Soul for Technology® refers back to Leon Reid IV's work as a street-artist (1995-2005). Particularly Load Paintings™ and Binary™ collections, which alter the meaning of functional tech iconography in the same way his street-art subverted functional street signage. Dissolving loading wheels and effectionate profile icons pay hommage to the bending One-Way signs and baby Stop signs of Leon Reid IV's street works. Tech-Art: Soul for Technology® experiments with new methods of authentication: Fingerprint Signed™ is a standard whereby a fingerprint of Leon Reid IV is applied to specific collections of his artwork for authentication purposes. Tech-Art: Soul for Technology® is an ongoing body of work with beginnings in 2011.