Cary Reeder, "Sly"
Somewhere Between Human and Beast
- Mon, Nov 3, 2025 - Sat, Nov 29, 2025 9am - 5pm On view
- Saturday, Nov 8, 2025 5pm - 8pm Art Reception
Bay 300 Gallery at The Silos at Sawyer Yards1502 Sawyer
Somewhere Between Human and Beast, a solo show of new paintings by Houston artist Cary Reeder, takes a humorous look at illness, healing, and the body. The exhibition features a new series of works created as a way to process a life-threatening health odyssey after undergoing open heart surgery, as well as works that touch on daily life as a person with chronic illness and a larger body. During Reeder’s health crisis, humor helped her cope with the mysterious, unexplained and unknowable. After breaking her wrist during this time, she made a series of gestural works on paper with her non-dominant hand that gave her freedom to express the absurdity of her situation and the emotional turmoil she was experiencing. Using the language of imaginary creatures, these works became the basis for Somewhere Between Human and Beast. Bringing these imagined narratives to life with extensive color experimentation, Reeder uses unexpected color combinations and bright and fluorescent colors to set an off-kilter tone. Additionally, her painting technique mimics the look of screen printing, playing with the viewer’s perception of where the artist’s hand lies in the making. Through these works, Reeder shares a hopeful view of healing and a way to find humor in being a human being.
About the Artist: Cary Reeder, a Miami, Florida native, has made Houston, Texas her home since 1996 and began her career as a graphic artist. Working in multi-media including paint, paper, and colored vinyl, she is keenly interested in how colors interact, and how light, shadow and space create ephemeral sensory experiences. Her work has been included in numerous group and solo exhibitions at Lawndale Art Center, Optical Project/Bill’s Junk, Galveston Arts Center, Mystic Lyon, and Art League Houston. Her sculpture, "Treeodesic Dome" was included in the public art project True North 2021. Major commissions include Google, Haiku Home and M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. She is a past recipient of an Individual Artist Grant from the Houston Arts Alliance and in 2014 was a Hunting Prize Finalist. Her work has been featured in New American Paintings and Acrylic Artist. She teaches in her studio and at Art League Houston.