WATERFONT MUSEUM | Four Paintings | Joseph Reich

Four Paintings continues the Waterfront Museum’s decades-long legacy of providing a home for neighboring artists and providing low-cost public access to the rich cultural, maritime and labor history of the Red Hook waterfront. Housed aboard a 1914 railroad barge, the Waterfront Museum promotes historic preservation, the area’s maritime heritage, and an understanding of the importance of our water highway for commerce, commuters, culture, and recreation.

Joseph Reich is an American painter working in Red Hook, Brooklyn. His large-scale landscape paintings are rooted in sustained visual observation and attention paired with the rigorous physical practice of their making. For twelve years, he operated a storefront gallery and studio in Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood, developing his own exhibition practice. Joseph relocated his practice to Red Hook, Brooklyn, were his paintings reflect a complex interplay between landscape, industry, manufactured goods, work and the built environment that evokes the museum’s mission of connecting the Brooklyn waterfront environment to its residents and its past. He has recently exhibited work at ANDREW LOGAN PROJECTS along with Six Paintings currently on view at COMPOUND ART & SOUND GALLERY.