Tyson Reeder: Slurpee Machine at CANADA

CANADA, the artist-run gallery in Tribeca, is showing Slurpee Machine by Tyson Reeder in its project room at 60 Lispenard Street. The show runs September 9 through October 17, 2026, and pairs paintings with drawings made on note cards.

Reeder was born in 1974 in Fairfax, Virginia, and lives and works in New York. He holds a BFA from the University of Minnesota. His solo exhibitions have been held at Daniel Reich Gallery in New York, Office Baroque in Brussels, Green Gallery in Milwaukee, Gana Art in Seoul and CANADA. Group appearances include Pace Gallery, Acquavella, Gavin Brown's Enterprise, Venus over Manhattan, Peter Freeman Gallery and Jack Hanley. The Museum of Modern Art and the Rubell Family Collection hold his paintings. He has co-organized The Early Show at White Columns and the 24-Hour Super Jam at CANADA, and performed at the Serpentine Pavilion in London with the fashion collective George De George.

The paintings are liquidy and candy-colored, and they refuse to settle into any identifiable era. They might be a Weimar cabaret, a 1960s happening or a disco on a space station. Figures in spandex bodysuits pose with instruments, cars race through fluorescent coral reefs, and escalators rise inside abandoned malls. The scenes feel exclusive yet inviting, as though the viewer could step in.

Reeder builds his surfaces with unconventional means: nail polish, marker, glitter, thumb prints, pom poms and impressions from delaminated cardboard. The works on view list acrylic, Flashe, colored pencil, water-soluble crayon, collage, glitter and aluminum foil. Sigmar Polke's use of kitschy or "wrong" materials is one reference point, along with the Pattern and Decoration movement, Florine Stettheimer, Patrick Nagel and 1980s graphic design.

Underlying it all is a constant drawing habit. Reeder draws anywhere and anytime, mostly for his own amusement, and the drawings serve as a codex of ideas that later turn up in paintings. His note-card drawings are available at the gallery on a cash-and-carry basis.

The gallery is open Tuesday to Saturday, 10am to 6pm. October 17 is the final day.