Reginald Fludd calls attention to the natural beauty of something both familiar and seemingly mundane: the screen glitch. Fludd appreciates the appeal of the colors, shapes, and forms created by this random disruption. Fludd gathers glitches from his personal devices on a daily basis, and selects pieces to enlarge based on their original composition. If the glitch does not hold its own as an artwork, Fludd creates depth and definition within them through spontaneous mixed media application. His additions of color and shape through construction paper, oil crayon, and colored pencil only amplify the existing conditions of the glitch as an enlarged print. The implied depth created through these layered forms invite the audience to enter and explore these artworks as digital landscapes. Less than a decade after reentering the art world, Glitches: New Work by Reginald Fludd captures his technicolor vision and current methods of experimentation and abstraction as a Delaware based artist.

Curatorial Statement
Jillian Pini, Emerging Curatorial Fellow



Biography
Reginald Fludd’s long-lasting art career has been characterized by experimentation in color and form. Fludd has dabbled in many forms of pictorial representation, including plastic, wood, watercolor, colored pencil, oil crayon, and collage. He is drawn to color in particular, noting it as a recurring focus throughout his career. Born in New York City in 1938, he received a B.S. in Art from Indiana University, and a M.S. in Art from Queens College, with brief periods of study at both the Art Institute of Chicago and the City College of New York. Fludd was active within the New York contemporary art community in the 1970s, where he pushed against traditional notions of artmaking through exploring the boundaries of composition and medium. Fludd has been the subject of ten solo exhibitions throughout the United States, including features at the Heckscher Museum of Art in Huntington, NY, and the former Cinque Gallery in New York, NY. He was also featured in several group exhibitions both in the United States and France, at locations such as the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, VA, and the Brooklyn Museum in Brooklyn, NY. His work is included in several public collections across the United States. During a 30-year break in his artistic career, Fludd was an art teacher in public schools in New York, Indiana, Illinois, and Florida, guiding and inspiring young minds at the secondary level. He made his official debut into the Wilmington art scene with a solo exhibition through John William Gallery in 2023, after an OLLI University of Delaware Art exhibition was canceled in 2020 due to the pandemic. Since restarting his artistic practice in 2016, Fludd has continued to experiment with processes of color and form as a Delaware based artist.