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Edward J. Reed, who goes by Ted, lives in Vienna, Virginia, with his wife and two young daughters. He paints in his home studio and teaches portrait, figure, and still-life painting at The Art League School located in The Torpedo Factory in Alexandria, Virginia. BACKGROUND COLLEGE Ted received his A.B., summa cum laude, in 1986 from Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. He majored in English Literature and minored in Studio Art. He devoted much of his time during college to drawing, etching, and painting the countryside and people of |
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coastal Maine. At Bowdoin, he won a variety of awards including the awards for high honors in all classes, overall excellence in English Literature, and best poetry composition by a junior. He was named a James Bowdoin Scholar all four years, and was selected as a member of Phi Beta Kappa academic honor society his senior year. | |||||||
LAW SCHOOL From 1987 to 1989, Ted attended Harvard Law School. He stopped painting during these years in the misguided belief that the demands of a legal education required him to forego all distractions. He received his J.D., cum laude, in 1989, and then clerked for the Maine Supreme Judicial Court. |
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PRACTICE For the next ten years, Ted practiced civil litigation for two top-flight law firms in Washington, D.C. He devoted half of his professional time to commercial litigation and the other half to plaintiff-side civil rights lawsuits. Throughout this decade, he rarely lifted a paintbrush. Ted became disabled with a permanent, chronic pain condition and was forced to retire from legal practice at the end of 2000. RETURN TO ART Ted began painting again in earnest, to the extent that his disability allowed, at the end of 2001. His return to art was difficult. The pain he experiences was and is a constant impediment. What is more, over a decade of neglect had stripped him of the few skills he'd developed through his college years. Nonetheless, his discovery that, with care, he could paint at all was uplifting. When he first became disabled, he'd feared that his physical condition would rob him of art altogether. |
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Over the next few years, Ted took classes at The Art League in Alexandria, Virginia. In 2003, he began teaching there intermittently and, in the fall of 2004, The Art League asked him to join the faculty. |
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RESUME TEACHING EXPERIENCE – THE ART LEAGUE SCHOOL • Oil Painting, winter-summer 2005, 2006-07, 2007-08 full academic years • Portrait & Figure, Oil and Pastel, 2004-05, 2005-06, and 2006-07 full academic years • Painting, Oil and Acrylic, summer 2004 • Portrait & Figure Painting, winter 2004 • Still Life in Oil, winter 2004
RECENT AWARDS & ACHIEVEMENTS • First Place Honorable Mention, All Media Show, The Art League, Alexandria, VA, December 2008 • Best of Show, The Eleanor Boudreau Jordan Award, Large Works All Media Show, The Art League, Alexandria, VA, November 2008 • Best of Oil, American Artist 70th Anniversary Readers' Choice Award, November 2007 • Semifinalist, American Artist 70th Anniversary Art Competition, Summer 2007 • Best Portfolio Winner, 2007 Internatiohnal Portrait Competition, "The Art of the Portrait" Portrait Society of America, Reston, VA, May 2007, Summer 2007 • Awarded September 2008 Solo Exhibition, in a juried competition for a solo exhibition, at The Art League Gallery, Alexandria, VA • 2nd Place, 2006 International Portrait Arts Competition, "The Miracle of the Portrait", Portrait Society of Canada, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, December 2006 |
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• Featured Artist, one of three artists honored and awarded certificates by The Art League's Board of Directors for for their painting, teaching, and service to The Art League, Alexandria, VA, September 2006 • Finalist, 23rd Annual | ||||||||
Edward J. Reed 2006