{"id":37601,"date":"2018-09-06T20:52:24","date_gmt":"2018-09-07T01:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/?p=37601"},"modified":"2018-09-06T21:36:44","modified_gmt":"2018-09-07T02:36:44","slug":"barbara-reid-mercer-union-toronto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2018\/09\/06\/barbara-reid-mercer-union-toronto\/","title":{"rendered":"~RENO \/ BARBARA REID . . MERCER UNION, TORONTO"},"content":{"rendered":"

she came to us – in 1970s Montreal, from Vancouver by way of Southern California \/ with the nickname: RENO, and that’s what we always called her.<\/p>\n

you can also<\/strong> place her, in that un-wieldly, & very unfriendly file:
\n‘Culture Against Us’, because she too has none<\/strong> of her work displayed on the Mercer Union archive, though she was most certainly included in the ’54\/84′ – ‘HOMMAGE a GUIDO MOLINARI’,<\/a> group exhibit of 1984, & which was in fact curated,
\nby her old friend, from B.C. \/ British Columbia . . artist\/curator, & early Mercer Union member: ANNA-MARIE COBBOLD. <\/p>\n

that’s some archive . . Mercer Union, lol !!
\nthe ghosts – coming back to bite ya !!!!!!!
\nKarma – ain’t she a bitch.<\/p>\n

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\nIMAGE: archival card, ‘BARBARA REID – WATERCOLORS’, MERCER UNION \/ JULY 12 -25, 1980<\/a><\/p>\n

but, as you can see from this delightful archival post from 1980, that does survive on their website<\/a>, the invite from a one-person show Anna-Marie Cobbold also arranged for her, Reno was as magical, and talented as you get \/ just born that way.
\nI mean, who ? was doing seascapes, let alone . . watercolors, in 1970, let alone 1980 ???
\nshe was, & continues to be a great inspiration for me, though she’s pretty much given up on the recognition ‘game’.
\nart world Canada – your loss, and your shame. <\/p>\n

here’s a few images of artwork Reno, sent me a few years back:<\/p>\n

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\nRENO \/ BARBARA REID, metallic & colored pencil on card stock, 4 x 6 in. \/ Oct 2015.<\/p>\n

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\nRENO \/ BARBARA REID, metallic & colored pencil on card stock, 4 x 6 in. \/ Oct 2015.<\/p>\n

now she mostly sends me, these very intense, color-saturated digital photos, usually of her backyard garden harvest.
\nshe sent me these, this week.<\/p>\n

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\nDIGITAL PHOTO BY: RENO \/ BARBARA REID, ‘Been gathering hazelnuts by the fistful and yes, that’s one yellow spongy ball visiting the herd !! Probably brought in by squirrels.’ \/ Aug, 2018.<\/p>\n

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\nDIGITAL PHOTO BY: RENO \/ BARBARA REID, ‘Today’s story is all about Italian plums. It’s only 15 lb., (pounds !!), but I have to stew them up and either can or freeze them.’ \/ Aug 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

she came to us – in 1970s Montreal, from Vancouver by way of Southern California \/ with the nickname: RENO, and that’s what we always called her. you can also place her, in that un-wieldly, & very unfriendly file: ‘Culture Against Us’, because she too has none of her work displayed on the Mercer Union […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37601"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37601"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37613,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37601\/revisions\/37613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}