November 1 - December 6, 2002

Richard Reep was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1972 from the University of Florida, where he studied Architecture and Fine Arts. There he also studied photography with Jerry Uelsmann, Doug Prince, and Todd Walker. In 1982 he was awarded a Master of Arts from the University of New Mexico, where he studied photography with Beaumont Newhall, Van Deren Coke, and Thomas Barrow.

Reep's photography has appeared in numerous exhibitions throughout the United States, including: Santa Fe and Albuquerque, New Mexico; Davis, Sonoma, Kentfield, and San Francisco, California; Memphis, Sewannee, Murfreesboro, and Nashville, Tennessee. Other exhibitions have appeared in Ohio, Georgia, Texas, New York, North Carolina, Florida, Colorado, Mississippi, Vermont, and South Carolina.

His work is in numerous private collections as well as those of the Mint Museum of Art (Charlotte, NC), the Nexus Gallery (Atlanta, GA), the Museum of New Mexico (Santa Fe, NM), the United States Information Agency (Washington, D.C.), and the Tennessee State Museum (Nashville, TN).

Articles on his photography have appeared in a multitude of publications, including: The Florida Quarterly, The Gainsville Sun, Young American Photography, The Commercial Appeal, American Churches, The Charlotte Observer, The El Paso Herald Post, and the Fifty Year Anniversary Exhibition catalog of the Memphis College of Art.