2009 Judge - Brian Reeves

Brian Reeves is co-founder Slop Art, an expression distribution company based in South Portland. A certified Master trained at the University of Wisconsin - Madison in Fine Art production, multiplication, and evaluation, Reeves is inventor of the efficiency-minded Painting Simulator™ and Pocket Portfolio™ image delivery formats, among others.

His solo and collaborative work has been exhibited in such venues as Space Gallery, (Portland, ME.) and Whitney Museum of American Art (New York), and printed in numerous publications including David Becker's Imprint of Place: Maine Printmaking 1800-2005, Richard Noyce's Printmaking on the Edge. His essay On Manufacturing Long-Lasting Industrial-Strength Appeal: Undermining Forgetability Factors by Finding a Happy Medium elucidating his theory of the "Axis of Cute" was published in the Spring 2007 issue of the College Art Association's Art Journal. Reeves has had more than 50 illustrations published in various publications including The Progressive Magazine, The North American Review, Isthmus & Capital Times (Madison, WI), The Riverfront Times (St. Louis), and Review (Kansas City) where he held the title of founding Art Director.

Reeves' work is also set to appear later this year in Printmaking: A Complete Guide to Materials and Processes by Bill Fick & Beth Grabowski and another best-seller-to-be on print theory by Beauvais Lyons, Director of the Hokes Archives in Knoxville, TN. Reeves has taught drawing, design, and digital imaging at Kansas City Art Institute, the Universities of Missouri and Wisconsin, and most recently at Maine College of Art. He's currently developing applications for the iPhone and completing the first Slopland Effluence Express™ shippable showroom franchise for which he received a Good Idea Grant from the Maine Arts Commission in 2008. A call for downsized entries to help stock the award-winning mobile display can be found at slopArt.com.