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Michelle Firment Reid's Tender at Gallery One
By Steve Haruch
February 20, 2010

Darling Please Dont Stop Your Talking, 2009, MFReid

Darling Please Dont Stop Your Talking
by Michelle Firment Reid
Tulsa-based painter Michelle Firment Reid says of her latest collection, "I paint what I feel, desire and know." The process of translation from thought to painting travels directly through the mind's language centers in Tender, which runs through March 20. "Darling, Please Don't Stop Your Talking" sets white script against a shadowy field and a spectral column of light. Some of the canvases resemble large palimpsests. In her mixed-media work "Wide Awake," gestural brushstrokes evoke handwriting that's been rended, revised and subsumed by plumes of color - all the layered traces of restless thought compressed into a single abstracted surface. Reid will attend the reception.