SELECTED BOOKS AND CATALOGUES
2012
Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College. David Reed: Lives of Paintings. exh. cat. (Portland: Reed College).
Stephanie Snyder, Text.
Kunstmuseum Bonn. Heart of Glass: Paintings and Drawings 1967-2012. exh. cat. (Bonn).
Stephan Berg (Ed.)
2009
Snoeck Publishers, Kienbaum artists' books. David Reed, Rock Paper Scissors. (Pennsylvania State University).
Reed, David, Jochen Kienbaum et al Editors.
2008
Glass Curtain Gallery, Columbia College, Chicago. Bilingual, Art at the Intersection of Painting and Video. exh. cat. (Chicago: Columbia College Chicago).
Essay: Paintings, Paratives, Positions, Parables by Michelle Grabner
Museum Moderner Kunst Kaernten. abstract/abstract. exh. cat. (Cologne, Germany: Snoeck).
Essay in German and English: Abstraction Procedure or Conviction? by Andrea Madesta
Kunstmuseum Bern. There is Desire Left (Knock Knock). exh. cat. ( Wiesbaden, Germany: Kunstmuseum Bern).
Essays in German and English: Guest Appearance by Volker Rattemeyer
Any Number of Shooters or Paint me a Cha Cha Cha by Thomas Wagner
2007
Roswell Museum and Art Center. Beyond a Gift of Time. exh. cat. (New Mexico: Roswell Museum and Art Center).
Andreas Baur & Konrad Bitterli. Brave Lonesome Cowboy. exh. cat. ( Nuernberg, Germany: Verlag fuer Moderne Kunst Nuernberg).
Essay in German and English: Brave Lonesome Cowboy by Andreas Bauer & Konrad Bitterli
2006
Blanton Museum of Art. American Art since 1900. exh. cat. (Austin: University of Texas Press).
2005
David Reed. exh. cat. (Paris, France: Galerie Xippas).
Essay in English and French: “Paint in Close-Up” by Frank Reijnders
Printemps de Septembre a Toulouse 2005 - Volume 2. Vertiges. exh. cat. (Dijon, France: Les presses du reel)
David Reed. Leave Yourself Behind. Paintings and Special Projects 1967-2005. exh. cat. (Wichita, Kansas: Ulrich Museum of Art).
Essays in English:
“#252 as 5-7-5” by Kevin Mullins
“Love Her as Herself” by Richard Shiff
“A Painter of Post-Modern Life” by John Yau
Willem de Kooning. exh. cat. (Vienna, Austria: BA-CA Kunstforum and Edition Minerva).
Essay in German: “David Reed” by Florian Steininger
2004
National Gallery of Australia. Sean Scully. (Port Melbourne, Australia and London, Great Britain: Thames and Hudson).
still mapping the moon. Perspektiven zeitgenössischer Malerei / Perspectives on Contemporary Painting. exh. cat. (Germany: Kunstmuseum Bonn).
Essay in English and German: “Abstraction and its Imitation. Aspects of the Mondstudio Collection in the Context of Present-day Painting” by Georg Imdahl
John Baldessari and Meg Cranston. 100 Artists See God. exh. cat. (New York: Independent Curators International).
Marianne Karabelnik. Stripped Bare. The Body Revealed in Contemporary Art. Works form the Thomas Koerfer Collection. (London, Great Britain and New York: Merell Publishers).
Surface Tension. exh. cat. (New York: Chelsea Art Museum).
2003
Green, David Painting as Aporia. Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Painting. Hybridity, Hegemony, Historicism. Edited by Jonathan Harris, Liverpool University Press + Tate Liverpool.
Rubinstein, Raphael Abtraction out of Bounds. Polychrome Profusion. Selected Art Criticism: 1990-2002, Hard Press Editions, Lenox. MA.
Painting pictures. Malerei und Medien im digitalen Zeitalter. (Wolfsburg: Kreber Verlag).
Essay: “Painting and Film in the work of David Reed and Sarah Morris” by Holger Broeker
We Love Painting: Contemporary American Art from Misumi Collection. (Japan: MISUMI Corporation).
2002
Unframed: Artists Respond to AIDS (New York: Powerhouse Books).
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego. Lateral Thinking: Art of the 1990’s (San Diego: Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego).
MAK Center. Tresspassing: Houses X Artists. (Cologne: Hatje Cantz Verlag).
Wexner Center for the Arts. Mood River. exh.cat. (Ohio: Ohio State University).
2001
Kunstmuseum St.Gallen. David Reed. You look good in blue. exh.cat. (St.Gallen).
Essays:
“Painting over Time.” by Katy Siegel
“Pictorial Striptease.” by Konrad Bitterli
“Technicolor Vampires.” by Stefan Berg
Tate Liverpool. Hybrids: International Contemporary Painting. exh.cat.
(London:Tate Liverpol).
Essays:
“Hybrids” by David Ryan
“David Reed” by Simon Wallis
Museum of Fine Arts, Florida State University. Pleasures of Sight and States of Being. exh.cat. ( Florida: Florida State University).
Ursula Bickle Stiftung. Vertigo. exh.cat. (Vienna: Triton / Ursula Bickle).
2000
Museum Ludwig, Köln. Günter Umberg mit Bildern aus der Sammlung: Body of Painting. exh.cat. (Cologne: Hatje Cantz Verlag).
SITE Santa Fe. Postmark: An Abstract Effect. exh.cat. (Santa Fe: Site Santa Fe).
Sibylle Omlin, Beat Wimmer (editor) Das Gedächtnis der Malerei. (Aarau, Cologne: Aargauer Kunsthaus, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walter König).
1999
Galerie Xippas. David Reed. exh.cat. (Paris: Galerie Xippas)
Essay in French and English: “Abstraction Reinvented” by Christine Buci-Glucksmann
Museum of Modern Art Oxford. Notorious: Alfred Hitchcock and Contemporary Art. (Oxford: Museum of Contemporary Art).
Goldie Paley Gallery, Moore College of Art and Design. David Reed - Painting/Vampire Study Center: Is Looking at an Abstract Painting Similar to a Vampire's not Reflecting in a Mirror? exh. cat. supplement. (Philadelphia: Goldie Paley Gallery, Moore College of Art and Design).
Introduction by Elsa Longhauser.
Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig/Siemens Kulturporgramm. Moving Images. exh.cat. (Leipzig: Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig/ Siemens Kulturprogramm).
Essay in German: “David Reed: der Film als Bild” by Roger M. Buergel
Kasseler Kunstverein. Special Offer. exh. cat. (Kassel, Germany: Kasseler Kunstverein).
Essay in German: “David Reed” by Elke Grützmacher
Bal, Mieke. Quoting Caravaggio. Contemporary Art, Preposterous History. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press).
Abstraction / Gesture / Ecriture. Paintings from the Daros Collection. (Zürich: Alesco AG. Zürich/Berlin/New York: Scalo).
Essay: “Index and Metaphor: Jonathan Lasker, David Reed, Philip Taaffe” by Enrique Juncosa
University of Michigan, Looking at Paintings / Looking for Painters: Gesture and Contemporary Painting. exh.cat. (Ann Arbor: Mike Underwood).
1998
Ruhrberg, Schneckenburger, Fricke, Honnef. Kunst des 20.Jahrhunderts. Band 1/Art of the 20th Century. Volume 1. (Cologne, Germany: Benedikt Taschen Verlag).
Essay in German and English: “Momentaufnahme. Künstlerische Probleme um die Jahrtausendwende. Malerei im Zeitalter der Medien”/ “At this Writing. Artistic Issues at the Turn of the Millenium. Painting in the Age of Electronic Media” by Karl Ruhrberg
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego. David Reed Paintings: Motion Pictures. exh. cat. (San Diego, California: Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego)
Essays:
“David Reed: Painting in the Age of Electronic Media” by Liz Armstrong
“Black on White: Paintings by David Reed” by Paul Auster
“David Reed’s Coming Attractions” by Dave Hickey
“David Reed’s #275: A Story of Erotic Vision” by Mieke Bal
Diözesanmuseum, Freising, Germany. Geistes Gegenwart. exh. cat. (Ostildern-Ruit, Germany: Cantz Verlag).
Essays in German:
“Das Auge des Geistes” by Petra Giloy-Hirtz
“Geist und Sinn” Peter B. Steiner
Delaware Art Museum. Interior Landscapes, An Exhibition from the Collection of Clifford Diver. exh. cat. (Wilmington, Delaware: Delaware Art Museum).
1997
Danto, Arthur C. After the End of Art: Contemporary Art and the Pale of History. (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press).
Inverleith House, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, Scotland and Edwin A. Ulrich Museum, Wichita State University. Theories of the Decorative, Abstraction and Ornament in Contemporary Painting. exh. cat. (Edinburgh, Scotland: Royal Botanic Garden).
Essay: “Association and Encounter” by David Moos
Snug Harbor Cultural Center. After the Fall, Aspects of Abstract Painting Since 1970. exh. cat. (Staten Island, New York: Snug Harbor Cultural Center).
1996
A.R.T. Press, William S. Bartman Foundation. Between Artists: Twelve Contemporary American Artists Interview Twelve Contemporary American Artists. (Los Angeles: A.R.T. Press).
Introduction by Dave Hickey.
Benjamin, Andrew. What is Abstraction? (London: Academy Editions).
Forum for Contemporary Art. Reconditioned Abstraction. exh. cat. (St. Louis, Missouri: Forum for Contemporary Art).
Essay: “Reconditioned Abstraction” by Martin Ball
Independent Curators, Inc. Embedded Metaphors. exh. cat. (New York: Independent Curators, Inc.).
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia. Nuevas Abstraciones. exh. cat. (Madrid, Spain: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia).
Essays in Spanish and English:
“New Abstract Painting” by Enrique Juncosa
“The Pure, the Impure, and the Non-Pure: Painting after Modernism” by Arthur C. Danto
“Redefined Abstraction” by Demetrio Paparoni
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia. Noves Abstraccions. exh. cat. (Barcelona, Spain: Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona).
Essays in Catalan and English:
“New Abstract Painting” by Enrique Juncosa
“The Pure, the Impure, and the Non-Pure: Painting after Modernism” by Arthur C. Danto
“Redefined Abstraction” by Demetrio Paparoni
Kunsthalle Bielefeld. Abstrakte Malerei Heute. exh. cat. (Bielefeld, Germany: Kunsthalle Bielefeld).
Essays in German:
“New Abstract Painting” by Enrique Juncosa
“The Pure, the Impure, and the Non-Pure: Painting after Modernism” by Arthur C. Danto
Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum. New Paintings for the Mirror Room and Archive in a Studio off the Courtyard by David Reed. exh.cat. (Graz, Austria: Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum).
Essays in English and German:
“Blood on the Mirror. Some Reflections on David Reed’s Painting and How They Fail to Come About” by Hanne Loreck
“60 Fractions of Meghon” by Michael Madore
“Phantom Painting: Reading David Reed: Painting between Autopsy and Autoscopy” by Peter Weibel
Sandler, Irving. Art of the Postmodern Era, From the Late 1960’s to the Early 1990’s. (New York: Icon Editions).
1995
Kölnischer Kunstverein. David Reed. exh. cat. (Cologne, Germany: Kölnischer Kunstverein).
Essays in German and English:
“Between the Bed and the Brushstroke: Reading the Paintings of David Reed” by Arthur C. Danto
“Explications” by Hanne Loreck
Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum. Pittura/Immedia: Malerei in der 90er Jahren/Painting in the ‘90’s. exh. cat. (Klagenfurt, Germany: Verlag Ritter).
Introduction in English and German by Peter Weibel
Essay in German: “Antiquiertheit der Malerei?” by Thomas Dreher
Württembergischer Kunstverein and Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen. Das Abenteuer der Malerei / The Adventure of Painting. exh. cat. (Ostfildern, Germany: edition tertium).
Independent Curators, Inc. Critiques of Pure Abstraction. exh. cat. (New York: Independent Curators, Inc).
Essay: “Critiques of Pure Abstraction” by Mark Rosenthal
Museo Alejando Otero. Transatlantica, The America-Europa Non-Representiva. exh. cat. (Caracas, Venezuela: Museo Alejando Otero).
Essay: “Walking to Patagonia: the Place and Space of Painting” by Raphael Rubinstein
Galerie Babara Farber. Architecture of the Mind. exh. cat. (Amsterdam, Netherlands: Galerie Farber).
Essay: “Architecture of the Mind. Machine Intelligence and Abstract Painting” by David Moos
Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo. Mesótica: the américa non-respresentiva. exh. cat. (San Jose, Costa Rica: Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo).
Essay in Spanish: “Problemas Abstractos” by Carlos Basualdo
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Repicturing Abstraction: The Politics of Space, The Abducted Image, Basic Nature, From Impulse to Image. exh. cat. (Richmond, Virginia: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts).
Essay: “Abstraction Liberated” by Arthur C.Danto
The Contemporary and the Walters Art Gallery. Going for Baroque: 18 Contemporary Artists Fascinated by the Baroque and Roccoco. exh. cat. (Baltimore, Maryland: The Contemporary and The Walters Art Gallery).
Essay: “Contemporary Artists Go for Baroque” by Lisa Corrin
Gilbert-Rolfe, Jeremy. Beyond Piety: Critical Essays on the Visual Arts, 1986–1993. (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press).
Essays:
“Nonrepresentation in 1988: Meaning-Production Beyond the Scope of the Pious”
“Painting Movement”
Contemporary Art Museum, University of South Florida. Re-Fab: Painting Abstracted, Fabricated, and Revised. exh. cat. (Tampa, Florida: Contemporary Art Museum).
1994
Todd Gallery. Chance, Choice, and Irony. exh. cat. (London, England: Todd Gallery).
Essay: “Learning to Live with the Hands of Orlac” by Tony Godfrey
Carrier, David. The Aesthete in the City: The Philosophy and Practice of American Abstract Painting in the 1980’s. (University Park, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press).
Essays:
“Artifice and Artificiality: David Reed’s Recent Painting”
“David Reed: An Abstract Painter in the Age of Postmodernism”
1993
Artifact Gallery. Fractured Seduction. exh. cat. (Tel Aviv, Israel: Artifact Gallery).
Essay in Hebrew and English: “Promissory Notes” by Maia Damianovic
Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna. Italia-America: L’astrazione redefinita. exh. cat. (San Marino: Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna and Tema Celeste Editions).
Essay in Italian and English: “L’autoregolazione del Sistema” by Demetrio Paparoni
Sammlung Goetz. New York Painters: Donald Baechler, Ross Bleckner, Peter Halley, Jonathan Lasker, Richard Prince, David Reed, Peter Schuyff, Philip Taaffe, Christopher Wool. exh. cat. (Munich, Germany: Sammlung Goetz).
Essays: “Painting and Writing” by Arthur C. Danto; “David Reed: Flesh, Fabric, Film, Finish” by Dave Hickey
Museumsquartier Messepalast and Kunsthalle Wien. Der zerbrochene Spiegel: Positionen zur Malerei / The Broken Mirror: Approaches to Painting. exh. cat. (Vienna, Austria: Wiener Festwochen).
Frankfurter Kunstverein and Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt. Prospect ‘93: Eine internationale Ausstellung Aktueller Kunst / Prospect ‘93: An International Exhibition of Contemporary Art. (Frankfurt, Germany: Frankfurter Kunstverein and Schirn Kunsthalle).
Masheck, Joseph. Modernities, Art-Matters in the Present. (University Park, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press).
Essay: “A Note on David Reed”
Obrist, Hans Ulrich. Hotel Carlton Palace, Chambre 763. (Paris, France: Oktagon Verlag).
1992
San Francisco Art Institute. Two Bedrooms in San Francisco. exh. cat. (San Francisco, California: San Francisco Art Institute).
Asher/Faure Gallery. Bedroom Pictures. exh. cat. (Los Angeles, California: Asher/Faure Gallery).
Essay: “Who’s Been Sleeping in My Bedroom Picture?” by Terry R. Meyers
Baumgartner Galleries. Thomas Nozkowski / David Reed. exh. cat. (Washington, D.C.: Baumgartner Galleries).
Essay: “Synthetic Duo: David Reed and Thomas Nozkowski” by Marjorie Welish
Galerie nächst St. Stephan. Abstrakte Malerei zwischen Analyse und Synthese / Abstract Painting between Analysis and Synthesis. exh. cat. (Vienna, Austria: Galerie nächst St. Stephan).
Essay in German and English: “Die sich selbst entfremdende Abstraktion” by Noemi Smolik
Galerie Rolf Ricke. Kinder! macht Neues! exh. cat. (Cologne, Germany: Galerie Rolf Ricke).
Auster, Paul. The Art of Hunger: Essays, Prefaces, Interviews. (Los Angeles, California: Sun & Moon Press).
Essay: “Black and White: Recent Paintings by David Reed 1975”
1991
John Good Gallery. La Metaphysica della Luce. exh. cat. (New York: John Good Gallery).
Essay in Italian and English: “La Metaphysica della Luce” by Demetrio Paparoni
Wolff Gallery. Strategies for the Next Painting. exh. cat. (New York: Wolff Gallery).
Essay: “The Image of Gesture: Strategies for the Next Painting” by Saul Ostrow
Bann, Stephen and William Allen, eds. Interpreting Contemporary Art. (London, England: Reaktion Books).
Essay: “David Reed: An Abstract Painter in the Age of Postmodernism” by David Carrier
Wheeler, Daniel. Art Since Mid-Century: 1945 to the Present. (New York: Vendome Press).
1990
Scott Hanson Gallery. Token Gestures: A Painting Show. exh. cat. (New York: Scott Hanson Gallery).
Essay: “Presumption and Consideration” by Tricia Collins and Richard Milazzo
Bartman, William S., ed. David Reed. (Los Angeles, California: A.R.T. Press/ William S. Bartman Foundation).
Essay: “David Reed’s Autonomous Products” by Charles Hagen
1989
Shea and Becker Gallery. Diagrams and Surrogates. exh. cat. (New York: Shea and Becker Gallery).
Essay: “Diagrams and Surrogates; an Approach” by Saul Ostrow
Kölnischer Kunstverein. Rolf Ricke: Jubilee Exhibition of the Galerie Rolf Ricke. exh. cat. (Cologne, Germany: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walter König).
1988
Dart Gallery. Formal. exh. cat. (Chicago, Illinois: Dart Gallery).
Essay: “Going Formal” by Joseph Masheck
1987
Arnason, H.H. History of Modern Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, Photography. Revised and updated by David Wheeler. (New York: Harry N. Abrams).
The Corcoran Gallery of Art. 40th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting. exh. cat. (Washington, D.C.: The Corcoran Gallery of Art).
Introduction by Ned Rifkin
1986
Carnegie Mellon University Art Gallery. Abstraction / Abstraction. exh. cat. (Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University).
Essays:
“Abstract Art Today” by David Carrier
“Non-Objective Art in the Eighties” by Elaine A. King
Craig Cornelius Gallery. Geometry Now. exh. cat. (New York: Craig Cornelius Gallery).
Introduction by Ruth Kaufmann.
1984
Masheck, Joseph. Point1: Art Visuals/Visual Arts — Smart Art. (New York: Willis, Locker, and Owens).
Essay: “David Reed”
1980
The New Museum of Contemporary Art. Investigations: Probe, Structure, Analysis. Agnes Denes, Lauren Ewing, Vernon Fisher, Stephen Prina, David Reed. exh. cat. (New York: The New Museum of Contemporary Art).
Essay: “Investigations: Probe, Structure, Analysis” by Lynn Gumpert and Alan Schwartzman