LES REKER     Landscape Painter
lreker4@gmail.com


Education

Certification in Museum Management , University of Colorado, Boulder
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Master of Fine Arts (painting,) Queens College of the City University of New York  (Teaching Fellowship)

Additional graduate study : 
Brooklyn College of the City University of New York  
Kutztown University, Kutztown, Pennsylvania  
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Bachelor of Fine Arts, (painting, art history) Indiana University, Bloomington  (Dean’s List Scholastic Honors)


Exhibitions (Selected ) 

2011 "Three Person Exhibition", First Street Gallery, (Chelsea) New York , New York
2009 "30th Anniversary Exhibition", First Street Gallery, (Chelsea) New York, New York
2009 "Clear Water", Creative Spirit Center, Midland, Michigan 
2004 “Two Directors: An Exhibition of Paintings by Les Reker and Kevin O’Brien” Tippecanoe Arts Federation,   
           Lafayette, Indiana  
1998 “Solo Exhibition”, Adams Gallery, Dunkirk, New York
1997 “The Lehigh River: Then and Now”, Payne Gallery, Moravian College, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
1995 “Seeking the Tranquil in Forest and Stream: Les Reker’s Pennsylvania Landscapes", Lore Degenstein    
           Gallery, Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania
1994 “Faculty Exhibition”, Payne Gallery, Moravian College, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
1992-3 “Group 75 Alliances”: Traveling Exhibition:
            -Oriel Gallery, Theatre Clywd, North Wales (United Kingdom), 
            -Camarthen, North Wales (United Kingdom)
            -Glyn Vivan Gallery, Swansea, South Wales (United Kingdom)
            -Lesneven, Brittany, France
            -Oriel Gallery, Bangor North Wales (United Kingdom)
            -Andrew Grant Gallery, College of Art, Edinburgh, Scotland
1992 “Artists Who Teach”, State Theatre Gallery, Easton, Pennsylvania
         “Faculty Exhibition”, Payne Gallery, Moravian College, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
1991 “Area Artists” (Three Person Show), Lehigh University Art Galleries, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
         “Gallery Artists”, Sherry French Gallery, New York, New York
1990 “Waiting for Cadmium”, Sherry French Gallery, New York, New York  
         “Faculty Show, Payne Gallery”, Moravian College, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
1989 “Contemporary American Landscape Painters”, Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland 
1988 “Faculty Exhibition”, Payne Gallery, Moravian College, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
1987 “Three Person Show”, Sherry French Gallery, New York, New York
         “The Artist and the River”, Kemerer Museum, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
         “Emerging Realists: East Meets South”, College of the Mainland, Texas City, Texas
         “Nocturnes and Nightmares”, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
         "Area Artists Who Teach”, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pennsylvania
1986 “City”, Sherry French Gallery, New York, New York
         “Art of Our Time”, Temple Emanuel, Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey
         “Faculty Exhibition”, Payne Gallery, Moravian College, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
1985 “Six are Selected: Emerging American Realists”, Sherry French Gallery, New York, New York
1984 “Mood in Landscape”, Sherry French Gallery, New York, New York
          “New Artists”, Capricorn Gallery, Bethesda, Maryland
          “Romantic Painting”, Tracy Garet Gallery, New York, New York
          “Faculty Show”, Payne Gallery, Moravian College, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
1983 “Corporate Presentations”, Corporate Art Directions, New York, New York
1982 “Solo Exhibition”, Haupert Union Building Gallery, Moravian College, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 
         “Solo Exhibition”, First Street Gallery, New York, New York
         “Solo Exhibition”, Hawk Mountain Sanctuary, Kempton, Pennsylvania 
         “Group Show”, Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Flushing, New York 
1981 “Solo Exhibition”, First Street Gallery, New York, New York
         “Solo Exhibition”, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania  
         “Faculty Exhibition”, Northampton County Community College, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
1980 “Group Exhibition”, First Street Gallery, New York, New York
         “Group Exhibition”, The Art Gallery, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
1979 “Solo Exhibition”, First Street Gallery, New York, New York
         “Contemporary New York Artists”, United States Customs House, World Trade Center, New York, New York
         “Two Person Exhibition”, ML Gallery of Fine Arts, New York, New York
         “Solo Exhibition”, Lehigh County Community College, Schnecksville, Pennsylvania
1978 “Gallery Artists”, First Street Gallery, New York, New York 
         “Holiday Exhibition”, Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, Pennsylvania
1977 “Solo Exhibition”, First Street Gallery, New York, New York
         “Dreams, Myths and Imaginary Landscapes”, ML Gallery of Fine Arts, New York, New York
         “Group Exhibition”, Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, Pennsylvania
         “In Praise of Space”. Traveling Exhibition: 
              -Westminster College, New Wilmington, Pennsylvania
              -Gross-McCleaf Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 
              -Parsons School of Design, New York, New York
1976 “Gallery Artists”, First Street Gallery, New York, New York
1975 “Solo Exhibition”, First Street Gallery, New York, New York  
         “Solo Exhibition”, Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Queens College of the City University of New York
         “Group Exhibition”, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC 
1973 “Group Exhibition”, Arbutis Gallery, Bloomington, Indiana   


Collections (selected) 

-Allied Bank, Houston, Texas
-Arthur Anderson, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts
-Joseph Baker Collection, Wildwood, New Jersey
-Boston Properties, New York, New York
-Carbon-Lehigh Intermediate Unit, Schnecksville, Pennsylvania
-Chemical Bank (J. P. Morgan Chase), New York, York ( three paintings)
-Citicorp, Inc., New York, New York
-Daniel P. Creed Co., Philadelphia (Concordville), Pennsylvania
-Creiger Sesen Associates, Boston, Massachusetts
-Phil Desend Collection, Bethesda, Maryland
-Editions Jehl Collection, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
-Fidelity Bank, Dallas, Texas
-Gaillord Collection, New York, New York
-Home Box Office, Inc., New York, New York
-Johnson, Bromberg and Leeds, Forth Worth, Texas
-Lucio Pozzi Collection, New York, New York
-Reading Museum of Art, Reading, Pennsylvania
-Republic Bank, Dallas, Texas
-Scan Life of Canada, Wellesley, Massachusetts
-Gilbert Shanus Collections, Scarsdale, New York and Fort Lauderdale, Florida
-Willke, Farr and Gallagher (at Citicorp), New York, New York
-Widing Collection, New York, New York
-Yoshida Development Corporation, Tokyo, Japan


Bibliography (selected) 

-Adcock, Craig. “Nocturnes and Nightmares”, Exhibition Catalogue, Florida State University, 1987
-Douglass, Kim. “A Brush with Nature”, The Daily Item, Sunbury, PA, Exhibition Review, 1995
-Endick, Kenneth. “Moravian Faculty Shines in Art Exhibition”, The Express Times, Easton, PA, Exhibition 
 Review, March, 1998
-Kaplan, Fredy. “A Portfolio of Regional Landscapes”, American Artist Magazine, 1984
-Koch, Philip. “The Landscape Observed”, Exhibition Catalogue, Maryland Institute, College of Art, 1989
-Livingston, Valerie. “Les Reker’s Pennsylvania Landscapes”, Exhibition Catalogue, Susquehanna University, 1995
-O’Beil, Hedy. “Les Reker”, Arts Magazine, 1978, Exhibition Review
-O’Beil, Hedy. “Les Reker”, Arts Magazine, 1980, Exhibition Review  
-Whelan, Frank. “River of Hope”, The Morning Call, Allentown, PA, Exhibit Revue, 1997