This is the official website for Erik ReeL, author of Pterodactyl Cries: Art, Abstraction, and Apocalypse, North American visual artist and philosopher, whose work initially explored identity and sexuality before maturing into his current work on the cognitive processing of surfaces. The freedom of improvisation and the risk of unpredictable outcomes is central to hs work.

ReeL studied art history with Rainer Crone, visual art with Robert C. Jones, Michael Dailey, Michael Spafford, and Jacob Lawrence, color with Richard Dahn [a student of Albers at Yale], Chinese brush with Hsai Chen, and sumi-e with George Tsutakawa, taking a BA degree, summa cum laude from the University of Washington in 1975.

Erik ReeL has exhibited at the Seattle Art Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, Morris Graves Museum of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Butler Institute of American Art, and in New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, South Korea, Japan, and Argentina. ReeL's work is in private collections based in Barcelona, Berlin, Buenos Aires, Chicago, Dubai, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Houston, London, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Montreal, New York, Paris, San Francisco, San Diego, Seattle, and Seoul. His work is in public collections including the Morris Graves Museum of Art, Seattle City Light, City of Seattle, Czong Institute of Contemporary Art, Museum of Ventura County, Whitman College.

Born and raised in Seattle, ReeL is currently based in Portland, Oregon, with his spouse, Rhonda P. Hill, founder of EDGE Fashion Intelligence.