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The Art of Andrew Reach – A Journey of Transformation in Eight Pictures, 2012

Eight pictures chronologically through time, take you on a journey of Andrew Reach’s transformation from Architect to Artist through the healing power of art.

Self Published Calendar is an Amazon title and placed in the museum stores of the Cleveland Museum of Art, The Akron Art Museum, The Miami Art Museum and the Frost Art Museum. This large 12 x 12 calendar features 12 beautifully reproduced circle themed artworks and 4 bonus artworks accom-panying an introduction about my use of circles in my art.

2012 Circles Calendar

Excerpt from article:“The tools are just the tools. Whether you’re painting or you’re doing digital, it still comes down to the same common denominator, which is creating a visual expression,” Reach said.Reach said part of his mission as an artist is to bring awareness to the power of art to promote wellness and how it can help people who are disabled.

Riffe Gallery to Exhibit Digital Art, The Lantern, Ohio State University Online Magazine, May 1, 2012

Power of computer to transform creativity energizes Riffe Gallery, May 13, 2012

Excerpt from article:It is no secret that artists, designers and illustrators have turned from tradi-tional mediums to the computer. Technology allows artists to create works digitally in ways that are unexpected and difficult to achieve otherwise.

“Max Eternity interviews artist, architect, and contributing writer to AD MAG–Andrew Reach. In the discussion, Reach and Eternity talk about creativ-ity and living with disability in the digital age. The conversation also touched on art and economics, and the force of creativity energy as a tool for social change.”

Andrew Reach: TranscendingDisability, Art Digital Magazine, October 23, 2011

Article is about the investment being made in the United Kingdom towards Digital Art and Culture but not in the United States. In the article, I am signaled out as an example of Digital Art in the U.S. Also featured in the article is a video podcast by Christiane Paul, adjunct curator of new media arts at the Whitney Museum in New York.

Digital Art and Culture: A 21st-Century Paradigm Shift, Truth-out.org, September 26, 2011

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Techno Meditations, Art Digital Magazine, July 18, 2010

Techno Meditations is an essay by Andrew Reach that was published on Art Digital Magazine. The essay is about the spiritual process behind his artwork and how it helps him cope with his disability and pain.

Interview from the website of the architectural firm Hellmuth Obata & Kassa-baum (HOK), the firm where Reach did most significant work of his career as an architect.

New Passions: Andrew Reach Perse-veres in Post-Architecture Life, hoklife.com, June 27, 2011

Artist page with work “March of Humanity”. Excerpt from the exhibition website reads:All of the artists in Wounded in Action: An Art Exhibition of Orthopaedic Advancements have explored, both literally and figuratively, their feelings toward the loss of limbs and other musculoskeletal wounds. Orthopaedic surgeons who treat wounded military and civilians and whose lives have been affected by war and their own experience with such injuries are also artists in this exhibition.

Wounded in Action, Morial Convention Ctr. - New Orleans, Senate Rotunda - Washington DC, Cultural Center Millenium Park - Chicago, 2010 - 2011

Exhibit Shows the Impact of War, Through the Artists and the Soldiers, The New York Times, May 28, 2011

This article is about the exhibition “Wounded in Action” of which Reach’s work “March of Humanity” was selected among 76 other artists in this national touring exhibition. Though the article doesn’t mention him by name, it speaks of all the artists in the exhibition. This article also appeared in print on May 29, 2011, on page A27A of the National edition of the Times.

Broadcast story on Voice of America’s “Late Edition” Newscast which airs everyday in the Middle East and Africa to an audience of 20 million interna-tional viewers about exhibition “No Dream Beyond Reach”.

Exhibit Shows Physical Handicap is No Barrier to Creative Spirit, Voice of America, December 17, 2009

Reach’s last building as an architect before disability was the Frost Art Museum in Miami. He was entrusted to be Project Architect and worked alongside the reknowned Architect Yann Weymouth in dual role as assistant designer. When he was asked to mount a solo exhibition of his work at the museum he was instrumental in creating it brought him back full circle to the career that he loved so much.

“Full Circle” Solo Exhibition at the Frost Art Museum Catalog, 2008-2009

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From Architect to Artist: Andrew Reach Comes ‘Full Circle’ at Frost Museum, Hoklife.com, March 17, 2009

From Project Architect of the Frost Art Museum, to solo exhibition artist in it’s inagural opening, HOK writes about Reach’s journey that brought him back to the building that was his last as an architect.

Excerpt from article reads:A poignant homecoming of sorts at the Frost is "Full Circle," by local artist Andrew Reach, who has played a role in the museum's rebirth. Like a phoenix rising from the ashes, Reach has come to roost in a breathtaking structure he helped design and make worthy of inspirational talent.

Beyond Basel, Area museums offer up the best in new art, Miami New Times(online & in print), December 18, 2008

Reach’s artwork “Slice of Life” graces the cover of Volume 1 Issue 2 of “Arts in Health” An International Journal for Research, Policy and Practice, published biannually by the Society for the Arts in Healthcare. The Society for the Arts in Healthcare is a non-profit 501(c)3 corporation in Washington, DC. Founded in 1991, the Society for the Arts in Healthcare is dedicated to advancing arts as integral to healthcare.

Cover Art for “Arts in Health”, The of-ficial journal of the Society for the Arts in Healthcare, 2009

The Reach of Andrew Reach,ArtDigitalMagazine.com, July 28, 2009

An excerpt reads:Rising from the ashes of his congenital spinal disease, Reach’s artwork emerges as arrestingly playful–probing the psyche. Some of his work reminds one of cogs rotating on an axis, or perhaps like satellites and planets in orbit.

Disabled and Productive website was founded by Luc Dehouwer. Luc became disabled as a C5/C6 quadriplegic in 1987 as the result of a diving accident. An excerpt about the site reads:This website is Luc’s way of giving back to the disabled community, a way to inspire others, and a way to share some of the things he has learned over the last twenty years. He would like nothing more than to see all disabled persons succeed in their lives.

Disabled Art – Interview with Digital Artist Andrew Reach, Part 1, DisabledAndProductive.com, March 4, 2009

Disabled Art – Interview with Digital Artist Andrew Reach, Part 1,DisabledAndProductive.com, March 8, 2009

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Finding Freedom, Cleveland Plain Dealer (front page of Arts & Life section), May 1, 2008

Excerpt from article reads:Architectural, geometric shapes almost thrust themselves from the paper. Vertebra like links, a reference to his tortured back, snake through some works. Lately, free-form creatures Reach calls "whimsies" dance through his art.

Artist page with work “Meeting of the Spines”.Excerpt from the exhibition website reads:Both adult artists and children were asked to share their art that illustrated-but was not necessarily figurative or representational-some aspect of the artist's feelings toward, or relationship with, their orthopaedic condition...

eMotion Pictures: An Exhibition ofOrthopaedics in Art, Moscone Center - SanFrancisco, Cultural Center at Millenium Park - Chicago 2008

This was written about Reach’s solo exhibition “Whimsies, Conflicts & Desires” at Studio STK Gallery in Burlington Vermont.Excerpt from article reads:Reach’s 13 Large-scale, archival works on paper draw upon a personal vocabulary of symbols that become transformed, altered and ultimately rein-vented with each piece.

Digital Desires, Seven Days Vermont(in print), October 17, 2007

Digital'06: Bio/Med SciART,8th International Digital Print Exhibition sponsored by Art & Sciences Collaborations, Inc., New York Hall of Science, 2006

Press Release for the exhibition Bio/Med SciART at the New York Hall of Science. 7 of the 23 artists are singled out in the press release.An excerpt reads:Andrew Reach [an x-architect] turns his own physical challenges into visual meditations.

Artist Page with work “Rods & Screws”.Excerpt from the exhibition website reads:The aim of this exhibition is to explore how the health, medical, biosciences and biotechnologies are influencing the content of contemporary art through the lense of the digital print medium.

Digital'06: Bio/Med SciART, 8th International Digital Print Exhibition sponsored by Art & Sciences Collaborations, Inc., New York Hall of Science, 2006-2007

This is a review of Reach’s first solo exhibition, “Beyond Pain”, in Miami. An excerpt reads:His large archival Epson pigment prints on Somerset velvet paper bleed over with lush expanses of color, reflecting a bold source of influences and an inspiring odyssey into art-making.

The Human Condition, Miami New Times (online & in print), October 27, 2005

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Creativity - Within Reach, Miami New Times (online & in print), October 13, 2005

About my Reach’s Exhibition “Beyond Pain”, an excerpt from article reads:Andrew Reach makes his colorful masterpieces with a computer, but don't call his work digital art. "To me it's painting, whether it's with paint or pixels," the artist explains.

Solo Exhibition “Beyond Pain” Catalog, 2005