photo: Independent curator Kathy Rae Huffman and Erik ReeL, Villa Aurora Library, Santa Monica, California, 2014, photo: Rhonda P. Hill

Bibliography

Bibliography about Erik ReeL

Catalogs and Monographs

17th Annual McNeese National Works on Paper. Exhibition catalog, 2004

17th Parkside National Small Print Exhibition. Exhibition catalog. Wisconsin: 2004

Arconi, Nikki. Erik ReeL Painting Catalog: 1250 -1456, Centaur: 2011

Carlsson, Jae. Tabula Rasa. Exhibition catalog, 2013

Chaos. Exhibition catalog, 2009

Kinoshita, Alexis and Moen, Grace, Erik ReeL 20 20, FAFA, 2020

Morris Graves Museum of Art, Erik ReeL: Full Circle. Exhibition catalog, 2016

Portland Album 1, 2020

ReeL, Erik. Face to Face. New World: 2008

ReeL, Erik. From the Private Collection. Catalog. Centaur: 2013

ReeL, Erik. Painting: Catalog 1352 – 1401. Catalog. Centaur: 2010

ReeL, Erik. Paintings. Catalog. Centaur: 2009

ReeL, Erik. Quantum Dynamics of Painting. Exhibition catalog. 2008

ReeL, Erik. Works on Paper. Centaur: 2009

Santini, Enrico, Erik ReeL: paintings and drawings. 110 plates, Centaur: 2008


Interviews

KAQB, Interview with Erik ReeL, January 2013

Gallivan, Joseph. Erik ReeL "Street," KBOO, 13 February 2024

Gallivan, Joseph. Art Snacks: Erik ReeL's "Street," Axios, 1 February 2024

Riehl, Sean, Ruins of Runes, text of documentary on Erik ReeL, May 2014

Society805.com, Interview with Erik ReeL, June 2013


Video

Riehl, Sean. The Visual Language of Erik ReeL, documentary short, 2014 

Swenson, Eric Minh. Epiphany: Erik ReeL and Diane Silver, video short, 2017

Vonk, Nathan. Objects of Impossibility, KGTV, 2017


Sources

AskArt Blue Book, 2005

Arconi, Nikki. Erik ReeL: Markings, catalog essay, November 2011

Chinay, Ben. Signs of a Lost Civilization, December 2011

Jesson, Nelson. , Semiotic Abstraction, November 2013

Reed, Christian.  Oh, Those Pesky Tag Memes, February 2013

ReeL, Erik. Ruins of Runes, Erik ReeL text of Sean Riehl video, May 2014

Tutustu kiinnostaviin ideoihin! Erik ReeL 2172Pansemia/Asemia sources website

Vonk, Nathan. Exciting Work at Museum of Contemporary Art, February 2015


Selected Press

Boise-Cossart, Kit. Erik ReeL, GraySpace Santa Barbara, November 2018

Chinay, Ben. Signs of a Lost Civilization, December 2011

D’Amore, Nicole. Faces are Archeteypes, August 2008

Dinaberg, Leslie. Erik ReeL: Zero Point & Rhonda P. Hill: Blurred Boundaries, September 2018

Donelan,Charles. The Riviera American-style, 18 September 2003

Farina, Anita. ReeL’s Bagdad Hotel, 17 August 2003

Gallivan, Jospeh. Art Snacks: Erik ReeL's "Street," Axios, February 2024

Hackett, Regina. Seattle P-I, 21 January 1981

Hudak, Tracy. A Painter With a View, April 2013

Jensen, David. Arte Tropicana and the ReeL Thing, 10 June 2003

Jesson, Nelson. Semiotic Abstraction, November 2013

Mills, Ted. In the Abstract Bedroom, June 2012

McIver, Sarah. ReeL Irrational Exuberance, 12 May 2003

Olive, Ashley. Erik ReeL at FrameWorks, Otober 2008

Reed, Christian. Oh, Those Pesky Tag Memes, February 2013

Society805.com. Erik ReeL and Diane Silver, 13 July 2017

Society805.com. Nash Rightmer & Erik ReeL’s Standing in Boots, May 2014

Society805.com. ReeL Grand Slam, November 2014

Society805.com, VAM Improvisational Painting, 7 July 2014

Sorel, Annette. ReeL Splash of Color, 5 May 2002

Tarzan, Tarzan. ReeL at Cornish Institute, Seattle Times, 15 October 1984

Thomas, Barbara Earl. ReeL Splash of Color, Highline Times, 10 June 1977

Ventura County Star, Erik ReeL at Butler Institute For American Art, 28 May 2018

Vonk, Nathan. Exciting Work at Museum of Contemporary Art, February 2015

Vonk, Nathan. Review: Out of the Great Wide Open, February 2015

Vonk, Nathan. How Soon is Now?, June 2012

Westbrook, Leslie. Welcome to Planet ReeL, Ventana Magazine, October 2017

Woodard, Joseph. Pools and Lines, 2 May 2002

Woodard, Joseph. Joie de Vivre, 28 August 2004


Related Articles

Arconi, Nikki. Erik ReeL: Markings, catalog essay, November 2011

Carlsson, Jae. Erik ReeL, Tabula Rasa catalog, April 2013

Noteboom, Kaya. Erik ReeL: The Art of Kenosis, paper, PNCA graduate program, October 2023

Rubinstein, Raphel. Provisional Painting, May 2009

Rubinstein, Raphael. Provisional Painting Part 2: To Rest Lightly on Earth, February 2012

Bibliography by Erik ReeL

[chronological listings]


Books

Pterodactyl Cries: Art, Abstraction, and Apocalypse, Centaur Editore, 2021.


On Visual Art


Pre-digital Publications

From 1976 to 1983 Erik ReeL wrote regularly on visual art and performance art for a variety of publications including Vanguard, ArtExpress, and High Performance international art magazines, Artweek, a West Coast art newspaper, and/or Notes, a monthly publication distributed nationally by the and/or artists' alternative space, both weekly reviews and a weekly column on the arts for the Seattle daily newspaper, the Bellevue Journal-American, as arts editor and writer for the Seattle Voice, a monthly glossy city magazine, and collaborations with art critic Jae Carlsson [ArtDish, ArtForum, ArtsWatch] on a number of zines on language and critical theory in the pre-internet era. None of this writing, except a review of Michael Spafford in Vanguard magazine, which has been specially digitized and re-formatted for digital display on this website, is listed. All of these publications predated online and digital publishing and have no official digital versions or presentation.


Online

Matisse in Long Beach, August 2018

Mark Bradford at Hauser & Wirth, May 2018

Yumiko Glover: Pushing the Button 2058 Times, May 2018

Chagall: Fantasies on Stage at LACMA, 13 November 2017

Jimmie Durham: Art at the Center of the World, 11 April 2017

Jean Dubuffet Drawings at the Hammer, 10 April 2017

Moholy-Nagy at LACMA, 31 March 2017

Henry Taylor at Blum & Poe, December 2016

Agnes Martin at LACMA, 21 June 2016

Mara De Luca at Luis de Jesus, 7 June 2016

Letter From the Front, Face to Face, catalog, August 2008

Galen Garwood at Foster//White, Vanguard, v. 12, no. 9, September, 1983

Michael Spafford at the Seattle Art Museum, Vanguard, v. 11, no. 4, May 1982, pp. 34-35


On Theater


Bakersfield Mist, 14 may 2018

Sgt. Pepper at 50; Mark Morris at Eternity, 14 may 2018

Shepard's True West at SPTC

Baby Tangle, 14 may 2018

American Buffalo, 20 april 2018

Macbeth in Ojai, 20 april 2018

Lear, 27 mar 2018

Wrongs of the Righteous, 12 feb 2018

This Random World, 12 feb 2018

Perlmutter’s Directing Hamlet, 12 nov 2017

Taking Sides, 13 nov 2017

Flying H Does Blackbird, 16 oct 2017

Dance: Anaїs by Mixed eMotion Theatrix, 25 sept 2017

Incognito, 22 sept 2017

Becky’s New Car, 6 sept 2017

Steel Magnolias at the Elite, 4 sept 2017

McPherson’s Birds, 1 july 2017

When We Were Young and Unafraid, 9 jun 2017

Milo’s Other Mozart, 5 jun 2017

Beached, 26 april 2017

To Woo is to Win, 25 april 2017

Agnes of God, 6 mar 2017

Devil’s Music that Feeds the Soul, 3 mar 2017

Driving Home: Rubicon Concludes Nibroc Trilogy, 7 feb 2017

Jason Furlani’s Family Trees, 6 dec 2016

Chapter Two at ETC, 5 dec 2016

Arthur Miller’s All My Sons, 17 oct 2016

Night Alive, 24 sept 2016

This Isn’t Kansas, Yet, Is It?, 23 july 2016

Open Meeting Closed, 15 july 2016

Oh, How Lovely Do Angels Fall, 15 jJune 2016

What Kind of Sticks?, 10 june 2016

The Pillowman, 19 may 2016

David Hare’s Skylight, 18 may 2016

Amy Herzog’s 4000 Miles at SPTC, 23 april 2016

Uncanny Valley, 24 mar 2016

Taking Liberty, 7 mar 2016

That Other Place, 16 feb 2016

See Rock City, 2 feb 2016

FUBAR at Flying H, 25 jan 2016

Copenhagen, 16 sept 2015

Acting Rules at Flying H and Elite: Small Engine Repair and Zero Hour, 19 oct 2015

Into the Jaws of History, 13 Sep 2015

It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad ... Living Room, 5 Sep 2015

Twisted Trouble, 18 jul 2015

Other Desert Cities, 3 jun 2015

Roger That, 31 may 2015


On Regional Art News

Joe Cardella 1945-2018, may 2018

Vonder Gray at WAV, 9 feb 2018

The Art Market 2017, 12 jan 2018

Bob Privett at the Ventura County Museum, 6 june 2017

Assembling Assemblage, 17 may 2017

Museum Mishandles Asian Pacific Exhibition, 27 jun 2016

A World Down the Street, 24 may 2016

Flying H Theatre Announces New Plays, 15 feb 2016

New Executive Director for the Museum of Ventura County, 18 april 2013

Pistol Productions: Firing Away, 1 oct 2012

Is the 805 Ready for a Regional Arts Council?, 9 feb 2012

Putting It All Together: Tracy Hudak, 3 feb 2012

Arts Candidates Sweep Ventura City Council Elections, 18 nov 2011

Irving Foundation Grants for the 805, 28 oct 2011

Ventura Wins National Arts Destination Award, 25 jul 2011