Phong Bui speaks with painter David Reed about the multimedia influences on his work and his 2010 exhibition at New York's Peter Blum Gallery, David Reed: Works on Paper. Reed discusses his admiration of painter John McLaughlin and the profound influence of McLaughlin's notions of intimacy with an art work--manifest in his preference for having his paintings hung in collectors' bedrooms--, which made Reed aspire to one day become a proper "bedroom painter." Reed speaks about the role that his uncle--among the many other artists in his family--had on his decision to become an artist, as well as how such professors of his as Philip Guston and Milton Resnick have affected his work. He also discusses his notions of the transgressive and ecstatic effects of abstraction, which he compares to losing sense of one's own body, reveals the mysteries behind how he makes his paintings, as well as why his works are numbered and untitled, and talks briefly about what it's like to be arrested (52 minutes).

A 2005 lecture Reed delivered at Parsons New School of Design is available here.