Edie Read
Exhibiting Artist
Edie Read is an artist with over 40 years of experience. She recently moved to Charlottesville, Virginia from Boston, Massachusetts, where she earned an MFA in Painting from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, the Professional Diploma from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, and a BA in Art History from Boston College. Teaching has been an integral part of her practice for many years; having held positions at her alma maters as well as Assumption College.
She has been awarded residencies at the Albers Foundation, travel grants in Barcelona and Italy where she studied the work of Antonio Gaudi and Piero della Francesca respectively, and has been invited to a residency at the Atlantic Center for the Arts where she collaborated with the writer William Gass pursuing issues of form and metaphor.
Read has exhibited her work nationally in solo and group exhibitions across Boston, Connecticut, and Virginia. Her work generates from her interests in the body and the effects of sensing and shaping space in two- and three-dimensions.
