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 2172, Pansemia/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
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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
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