Books by Erik ReeL
Pterodactyl Cries: Art, Abstraction, Apocalypse, 2021
Seattle Notebook, forthcoming 2024
Pure Fictions, forthcoming 2024
About Erik ReeL
Catalogs and Monographs
Kinoshita, Alexis and Moen, Grace, Erik ReeL 20 20, FAFA, 2020
Erik ReeL: Full Circle. Exhibition catalog, Morris Graves Museum of Art, 2016
Carlsson, Jae. Tabula Rasa. Exhibition catalog, 2013
Erik ReeL: From the Private Collection. Catalog. Centaur: 2013
Arconi, Nikki. Erik ReeL Painting Catalog: 1250 -1456. Centaur: 2011
Erik ReeL: Painting: Catalog 1352 – 1401. Centaur: 2010
Erik ReeL: Works on Paper. Centaur: 2009
Erik ReeL: Paintings. Centaur: 2009
Chaos. Exhibition catalog, 2009
Quantum Dynamics of Painting. exhibition catalog, 2008
Erik ReeL: paintings and drawings. 110 plates, Centaur: 2008
Erik ReeL. Face to Face. New World: 2008
17th Annual McNeese National Works on Paper. Exhibition catalog, 2004
17th Parkside National Small Print Exhibition. Exhibition catalog. Wisconsin: 2004
Interviews
Ruins of Runes, Erik ReeL text of Sean Riehl video, may 2014
Interview with Erik ReeL, june 2013 Society805.com
Interview with Erik ReeL, january 2013 KAQB
Video
The Visual Language of Erik ReeL, Sean Riehl, 2014, documentary
Epiphany: Erik ReeL and Diane Silver, Eric Minh Swenson, 2017, promotional
Objects of Impossibility, Nathan Vonk, 2017, KGTV
Sources
Nathan Vonk, Exciting Work at Museum of Contemporary Art, February 2015
Ruins of Runes, Erik ReeL text of Sean Riehl video, May 2014,
Nelson Jesson, Semiotic Abstraction, November 2013
Christian Reed, Oh, Those Pesky Tag Memes, February 2013
Ben Chinay, Signs of a Lost Civilization, December 2011
Nikki Arconi, Erik ReeL: Markings, catalog essay, November 2011
Erik ReeL 2172, Tutustu kiinnostaviin ideoihin! Pansemia/Asemia sources website
Selected Press
Kit Boise-Cossart, Erik ReeL, GraySpace Santa Barbara, November 2018
Leslie Dinaberg, Erik ReeL: Zero Point & Rhonda P. Hill: Blurred Boundaries: Fashion as an Art, September 2018
Erik ReeL at the Butler Institute of American Art, July 2018
Leslie Westbrook, Welcome to Planet ReeL, Ventana Magazin, October 2017
Erik ReeL and Diane Silver, 13 July 2017
Nathan Vonk, Exciting Work at Museum of Contemporary Art, February 2015
Nathan Vonk Review: Out of the Great Wide Open, February 2015
ReeL Grand Slam, November 2014
Society805.com, VAM Improvisational Painting, 7 July 2014
Nash Rightmer & Erik ReeL’s Standing in Boots, May 2014
Nelson Jesson, Semiotic Abstraction, November 2013
Tracy Hudak, A Painter With a View, April 2013
Christian Reed, Oh, Those Pesky Tag Memes, February 2013
Nathan Vonk, How Soon is Now?, June 2012
Ted Mills, In the Abstract Bedroom, June 2012
Ben Chinay, Signs of a Lost Civilization, December 2011
Nicole D’Amore. Faces are Archeteypes, August 2008
Ashley Olive. Erik ReeL at FrameWorks, Otober 2008
Joseph Woodard. Joie de Vivre, 28 August 2004
Charles Donelan. The Riviera American-style, 18 September 2003
Sarah McIver, ReeL Irrational Exuberance, 12 May 2003
Anita Farina, ReeL’s Bagdad Hotel, 17 August 2003
David Jensen, Arte Tropicana and the ReeL Thing, 10 June 2003
Annette Sorel, ReeL Splash of Color, 5 May 2002
Joseph Woodard, Pools and Lines, 2 May 2002
Delores Tarzan, ReeL at Cornish Institute, Seattle Times, 15 October 1984
Regina Hackett, Gary Hill and Gary Reel at And/Or Art Center, Seattle P-I, 21 January 1981
Barbara Thomas, ReeL Splash of Color, Highline Times, 10 June 1977
Related Articles
Jae Carlsson, Erik ReeL, Tabula Rasa catalog, April 2013
Raphael Rubinstein, Provisional Painting Part 2: To Rest Lightly on Earth, February 2012
Nikki Arconi, Erik ReeL: Markings, catalog essay, November 2011
Raphael Rubinstein, Provisional Painting, May 2009
Selected Writing by Erik ReeL
On Visual Art
Pterodactyl Cries: Art, Abstraction, Apocalypse, 2021
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
Michael Spafford at the Seattle Art Museum, Vanguard, v. 11, no, 4, May 1982, pp. 34-35
On Performing Arts
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
My Fair Lady at Rubicon, 26 oct 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
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
Other Publications
In the late 1970s and early 1980s ReeL wrote on art and performance for a variety of publications including Vanguard, ArtExpress, High Performance art magazines, Artweek, and/or Notes, weekly reviews and a weekly column on the arts for the daily newspaper in east Seattle, the Bellevue Journal-American, was arts editor and writer for the Seattle Voice monthly city magazine, and collaborated with art critic Jae Carlsson [ArtDish, ArtForum, ArtsWatch] on a number of zines on language and critical theory in the pre-internet era. He is currently an occasional contributor to Oregon ArtsWatch and various international platforms.