ESSAYS & REVIEWS

Can We Really See Art?, Hyperallergic, 2024, by John Yau

Painting simulacra: Brice Marden, David Reed, and Gerhard Richter, TWO COATS OF PAINTS, 2024, by Saul Ostrow

David Reed: New Paintings The Brooklyn Rail, 2020, by Charlotte Kent

A contemporary Master of the Brushstroke Hyperallergic, 2020, by John Yau

‘Mary Heilmann & David Reed: Two By Two’, Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, 6 March–11 October 2015 (Journal of Contemporary Painting Volume 3 Numbers 1 & 2, 2017), by Daniel Pettitt

Influences: Peter Halasz

The Surfers Journal, Volume 25 No. 4, September 2016

David Reed New Paintings Peter Blum Gallery, April 21 – June 25, 2016

David Reed’s Panorama by John Yau, Hyperallergic, May 2016

BAROQUE NOIR by Barbara A. MacAdam, Artnews, April 2016

DAVID REED / THORNTON WILLIS by David Carrier, Brooklyn Rail, June 2016

David Reed: A painter's life by Sharon Butler, Two Coats of Paint, June 2016

Touch Screen Journal of Contemporary Painting, Volume 1, Number 1, 1 April 2015

' The engagement of the paintings of David Reed with the trans- formed meaning of the painted surface via the mediation of the screen in contemporary culture, in particular that of the cinematic image, forms the main object of analysis of the article which draws upon art historical analysis, film theory and phenomenology.' by Bernice Donszelmann

Open Graves, Open Minds: Representations of vampires and the Undead from the Enlightenment to the present day (Manchester University Press, 2013)

'He make in the mirror no reflect':undead aesthetics and mechanical reproduction - Dorian Gray, Dracula and David Reed's 'vampire painting' by Sam George

“David Reed at Max Protetch Gallery”, The Brooklyn Rail, December 2007-January 2008, p. 56, by John Yau

Leave Yourself Behind: Paintings and Special Projects 1967–2005 (Wichita: Wichita State University, 2005)

A Painter of Post–Modern Life by John Yau

Love Her as Herself by Richard Shiff

David Reed (Paris: Galerie Xippas, 2000)

Abstraction Reinvented: The Virtual Sex of Painting by Christine Buci–Glucksmann (translated by Brian Holmes)

New Paintings for the Mirror Room and Archive in a Studio Off the Courtyard (Graz: Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, 1996)

Phantom Painting. Reading Reed: Painting Between Autopsy and Autoscopy by Peter Weibel

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

You Look Good in Blue (Nürnberg: Verlag Für Moderne Kunst, 2001)

Technicolor Vampires by Stephan Berg

Pictorial Striptease: On David Reed and His Painting: #467, 2000 by Konrad Bitterli

David Reed: Painting Over Time by Katy Siegel

Miscellaneous Texts

"For the love of small paintings" by Tyler Green,Modern Art Notes(April 15, 2009)

The Image in Movies by Roger M. Buergel
Published in Neue Bildende Kunst, April/May 1996

Explications by Hanne Loreck
Published in David Reed (Catalogue from the exhibition at Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany, 1995)

David Reed: Flesh, Fabric, Film, Finish, by Dave Hickey
Published in New York Painters: Donald Baechler, Ross Bleckner, Peter Halley, Jonathan Lasker, Richard Prince, David Reed, Peter Schuyff, Philip Taaffe, Christopher Wool. (Catalogue from the exhibition at Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany, 1994)