Born: Seattle 1952
Lives and works in Portland, Oregon
Education
1975 Bachelor of Arts, summa cum laude, University of Washington, Seattle
1974 University of California, Berkeley
1971-73 Whitman College, Washington, mathematics and philosophy
Selected Solo Shows
2018 Erik ReeL : Zero Point, GraySpace Gallery, Santa Barbara, California, US
2016 Erik ReeL : Full Circle, Morris Graves Museum of Art, Eureka, California, US (cat.)
2014 Silence, SCIART, Director's Choice Show, Camarillo, California, US
2014 Rebar at the Tool Room, Museum of Ventura County, Ventura, California, US
2013 Tabula Rasa, 643 Project Space, Ventura, US (cat.)
2012 60 @ 60: 60 paintings at 60 years old, pop-up, Ventura, California, US
2011 Markings I, Markings II, [two shows], B Street Project Space, Oxnard, California, US
2011 Signs of a Lost Civilization, Vita Arts Center, Bell Arts Factory, Ventura, California, US
2009 Viva la Vida, Laurel Ventura Gallery, Ventura, California, US
2008 Quantum Dynamics of Painting, UCSB Faculty Club, Santa Barbara, California, US (cat.)
2008 Caruso Woods Gallery, Santa Barbara, US
2006 Caruso Woods Gallery, Santa Barbara, US
2005 Caruso Woods Gallery, Santa Barbara, US
2004 Caruso Woods Gallery, Santa Barbara, US
2003 Santa Barbara Visitors Bureau and Film Commission, Santa Barbara, California, US
2003 Delphine Gallery, Santa Barbara, California, US
2003 Delphine Gallery, Santa Barbara, California, US
2002 Delphine Gallery, Santa Barbara, California, US
2001 Delphine Gallery, Santa Barbara, California, US
2000 Delphine Gallery, Santa Barbara, California, US
Did not exhibit 1988 - 1996
1987 Mazey Hickey Gallery, Seattle, Washington, US
1986 Whatcom Museum of History and Art, Bellingham, Washington, US
1985 123 Jackson Street Gallery, Seattle, Washington, US
1984 Cornish Institute for Allied Arts, Seattle, Wasshington, US
1984 123 Jackson Street Gallery, Seattle, Washington, US
1983 123 Jackson Street Gallery, Seattle, Washington, US
1981 and/or, Seattle, Washington, US
1979 and/or, Seattle, Washington, US
1979 Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington, US
1977 Alexander Sasanoff, Seattle, Washington, US
1975 Alexander Sasanoff, Seattle, Washington, US
Selected Collective Shows
2018 Butler Institute for American Art, Youngstown, Ohio, US
2017 From the Collection, Morris Graves Museum of Art, Eureka, California, US
2017 Objects of Impossibility: Contemporary Abstraction, Sullivan Goss Gallery, Santa Barbara, California, US
2017 World Without Walls: Erik ReeL and Diane Silver, Porch Gallery, Ojai, California, US
2016 For the Earth, Postmodern, Washington, DC, US (cat.)
2015 Out of the Great Wide Open, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, California, US
2015 Retablos For Peace, Museum of Ventura County, Ventura, California, US
2014 Museum of Ventura County, Ventura, California, US
2014 Standing in Boots, with Nash Rightmer, WAV, Ventura, California, US
2014 Sullivan Goss Gallery, Santa Barbara, California, US
2013 Sullivan Goss Gallery, Santa Barbara, California, US
2013 Art For Peace, Vita Art Center, Bell Arts Center, Ventura, California, US
2013 SCIART, Camarillo, California, US
2012 SCIART, Camarillo, California, US
2012 Vita Art Center, Bell Arts Factory, Ventura, California, US
2011 Vita Art Center, Bell Arts Factory, Ventura, California, US
2010 Vita Art Center, Bell Arts Factory, Ventura, California, US
2010 Print Electronico, Buenos Aires, AR
2010 Epocha Nueva, Casa Del Mexicano, Santa Paula, California, US
2009 Turbulence, with Vonder Gray, Galerie 251, Ventura, US
2009 Museum of Ventura County, Ventura, US
2009 California State University, Channel Islands, Invitational, curated: Jack Reilly, California, US
2009 Best of Ventura County, Ventura County Arts Commission, Ventura, US
2008 I-5 Gallery, Los Angeles, US
2008 Gay Pride Show, Caruso Woods Gallery, Santa Barbara, US
2008 Ventura County Arts Commission Show, curated: Paul Benavidas, Ventura, US
2008 Erik ReeL and Friends at the Love House, Love House, Ventura, California, US
2008 Best of Ventura County, Ventura County Arts Commission, Ventura, California, US
2008 Earth and Sky, Galerie 251, Ventura, California, US
2007 Rainbow Alliance Show, LGBT Support Network, Architexture, Ventura, California, US
2007 Gay Pride Show, Caruso Woods Gallery, Santa Barbara, US
2006 Gay Pride Show, Caruso Woods Gallery, Santa Barbara, US
2006 Picasso, Chagall, & Master Prints, Modern Masters Gallery, Palm Desert, California, US
2006 Elizabeth Edwards Gallery, Palm Desert, California, US
2005 Elizabeth Edwards Gallery, Palm Desert, California, US
2004 71st SAGA Annual Print Show, Society of American Graphic Artists, New York City, US (cat.)
2004 17th Parkside National Print Exhibition, University of Wisconsin, US (cat.)
2004 Works on Paper, curator: Matthew Pruit/Menil coll., McNeese St University, Louisiana, US
2004 Montpelier Center for the Arts, Montpelier, Virginia, US
2004 24th National Print Exhibition, Artlink Contemporary, Fort Wayne, Indiana, US
2004 Las Vegas Center for Art and Design, Santa Fe, New Mexico, US
2004 Signal+Noise, Scrim, CREATE + Media Art Lab, University of California, Santa Barbara, US
2004 Landscape Unlimited, Chicago, Illinois, US
2004 Caruso Woods Gallery, Santa Barbara, California, US
2003 Elizabeth Edwards Gallery, Palm Desert, California, US
2003 Linda Moore Gallery, San Diego, California, US
2003 Lisa Kurts Gallery, Memphis, Tennessee, US
2002 Lisa Kurts Gallery, Memphis, Tennessee, US
2002 Contemporary Art Forum, Santa Barbara, California, US
2001 Contemporary Art Forum, Santa Barbara, California, US
2000 Contemporary Art Forum, Santa Barbara, California, US
2000 Artists for World Peace, Pavilion for World Peace, Kobe, JP
2000 Karpeles Museum and Manuscript Library, Santa Barbara, California, US
1999 Delphine Gallery, Santa Barbara, California, US
Did not exhibit in group shows 1986-1998
1985 New York, LA, Seattle, Center on Contemporary Art, traveled: Seattle, Los Angeles, New York
1984 City of Seattle Collects, curator: Howard Fox/LACMA, Seattle Art Museum Pavilion, Seattle
1984 East: West Dialogue, curator: Gene Barto, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Seattle Art Museum, US
1984 Face to Face, with Jimmy Jet, Seattle Pacific University, Seattle, Washington, US
1984 Gallery Artists, 123 Jackson Street Gallery, Seattle, Washington, US
1984 Silver Birds, performance w/ Sue Ann Harkey, Seattle Art Museum Pavilion, Seattle, US
1984 Night Mind, performance w/ Sue Ann Harkey, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, US
1984 A Reading After Robbe-Grillet, performance w/ K. Hunt, Poetry Seattle, Seattle, US
1984 Burning Angels, Cabaret Voltaire, Seattle, Washington, US
1984 Krakatoa Kriterion, curated, 123 Jackson Street Gallery, Seattle, Washington, US
1983 Gallery Artists, 123 Jackson Street Gallery, Seattle, Washington, US
1980 Chihuly et al., Foster/White Gallery, Seattle, US
1979 William Traver Gallery, Seattle, US
1979 Kodak International, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, US
1978 6500 x 20 International Color Xerox Invitational, and/or, Seattle, US
1978 Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, Washington, US
1977 International Flux Fest, and/or, George Maciunas curator, Seattle, US
1976 National Drawing Show, curator: Wayne Thiebaud, Del Mar Museum, Corpus Christie, Texas
Collections
Represented in private collections based in Buenos Aires, Berlin, Chicago, Dubai, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Houston, Indianapolis, London, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, New York City, Oakland, Paris, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, San Diego, Santa Fe [NM], Seattle, and Seoul.
Public collections include the permanent collections of:
Morris Graves Museum of Art
Seattle City Light
City of Seattle
Czong Institute of Contemporary Art
Museum of Ventura County.
Selected lectures, panels, and symposia
1986
Public lecture in conjunction with solo exhibition at Whatcom County Museum, Bellingham, Washington.
Panel on Art Criticism and Contemporary Painting, in conjunction with solo exhibition Whatcom County Museum of History and Art, Bellingham, Washington.
1985
Symposium on Visual Art and Media: Politics and Critique. Seattle Media Library.
Critics Symposium on Painting, Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington.
1984
From Titian to Clemente: Transformations in the Painterly Tradition in Italy. Public lecture, Cornish Institute of the Arts, Seattle, Washington.
The Rebirth of Painting. Public lecture, Seattle Art Museum.
Dialectics of Transavantguardism: Wolfgang Max Faust vs. Germano Celant, Public lecture, Seattle Public Library.
Graffito Graphics: the Berlin Wall, Urban Graffiti, and the New Painting. Public lecture, Seattle Pacific University.
Sources in My Work, public lecture, Cornish Institute for the Arts, Seattle.
Painting Today, Public lecture, Cornish Institute for the Arts, Seattle.
Painterly Painting, Again, Public lecture, Seattle Art Museum.
1983
Late Painting: Picasso, Matisse, de Chirico, Chagall, et alia, Public lecture, Seattle Art Museum.
Late de Chirico and the Next Generation: Clemente, Palladino, Cucci, Public lecture, Seattle Central Community College.
Teaching Color Theory: Gerrittsen Schema, RGB, Hex, and the Preparation of Visual Artists and Designers for a Digital World, Public lecture, Lecture series, Seattle Public Library.
Teaching Color Theory: Gerrittsen Schema, RGB, Hex, and the Preparation of Visual Artists and Designers for a Digital World, Public lecture, Lecture serieis, Seattle Central Community College.
1982
Color Theory: The Bauhaus Tradition Today: Itten, Klee, Albers, Dahn, ReeL, Public lecture, Seattle Central Community College.
1981
Color Theory: Gerrittsen Schema, Visual Constancies, Color Effect, and Painting. Public lecture, Seattle Central C. College.
An Objective Criterion for Temperature Contrast: Itten was Wrong, Seattle Central College Auditorium.
1980
Fluxus Flumoxed, Public lecture commemorating the passing of George Maciunas, founder of Fluxus, Seattle Masonic Hall.
Color Theory Today: Preparing Visual Artists for the Computer Age, Why Teach Hexidecimal and RGB Representations. Seattle Public Library.
Color Theory Today: Why Classical Mixing Theories Do Not Work, Seattle Public Library.
Color Theory Today: Gerrittsen Schema, Transmission Curves, and Digital Representations, Seattle Central Community College Auditorium.
Color Theory: A Comprehensive Conceptual Scheme for Artists and Designers, Public lecture, Seattle Public Library.
The Role of Visual Constancies in the Teaching of Color Theory to Artists and Designers, Public Lecture, Seattle Central Community College.
Edwin Land and the Revolution in Perceptual Psychology in the 1950s and Its Impact on Color Theory: What Artists Need to Know, Public Lecture, Seattle Central Community College.
1979
Voltaire's Cafe: Performance Art Today, Evergreen State College.
Performance Art Today: Sources and Contexts, Public lecture, Washington Hall, Seattle.
For Bibliography and background see Bibliography and Bio.