Education
1983

 

1982

Master of Fine Arts, University of California at Berkeley, CA.

Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skohegan, MN.

Bachelor of Fine Arts, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
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Selected Solo Exhibitions

2006

2005

All Consuming Identity, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA.

Rainbow Play Systems, P·P·O·W, New York, NY.

1999 The Wish to the Thought, P·P·O·W, New York, NY.
1998 It’s Hard to be Happy, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA (brochure).
1997 Died of Laughter, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
1996 Sleepy Hollow, Feature, New York, NY.
1994 Ring Posies, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
1993 “This may be play to you, tis death to me,” Feature, New York, NY.
1992 “You, oh queen, are the fairest in the land,” Feature, New York, NY.
1991 Little Men, Mincher/Wilcox Gallery, San Francisco, CA.

Feature, New York, NY.
1989 Fobbo Gallery, San Francisco, CA.

Think Tank, San Fransisco, CA.
1985 Martin Weber Gallery / ATA, San Francisco, CA.

Selected Group Exhibitions
2002 Art in Embassies: Paris, France, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA.
2001 Extraordinary, Walter and McBean Gallery, San Francisco, CA, curated by Madeleine Grynsztejn.

Showtime, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
2000 Light Fantastic, Walter and McBean Gallery, curated by Constance Lewallen, San Francisco, CA.

Of The Moment: Contemporary Art From The Permanent Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA.

A Lasting Legacy: Recent Additions to the Collection, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA.

Paper Cuts, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
1999 New Work: Painting Today, Recent Acquisitions, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA.

Annual Faculty Exhibition, University of California, Berkeley, CA.

Eye Candy, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA.

The Painting Show, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
1998 Annual Faculty Exhibition, University of California, Berkeley, CA.
1997 Flying Buttress Please, Torch Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Bay Area Now, Yerba Buena Gardens Center of the Arts, San Francisco, CA (catalogue).

About Face, Transamerica, San Francisco, CA (brochure).
1996 Approaching the New Millenium, University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA.

Sampling, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
1995 In A Different Light, University Art Museum, curated by Nayland Blake and Lawrence Rinder, Berkeley, CA (catalogue).

I Gaze A Gazely Stare, Feature, New York, NY.

Representational Drawings, Feature, New York, NY.

Metaphor, Pulliam Deffenbaugh, Portland, OR.
1994

Arabesque, P·P·O·W Gallery, New York, NY.

Can You Always Believe Your Eyes: Recent American Drawings, Museum of Contemporary Art DeBeyard, curated by Rob Perée and Lydia Scouten, Breda, The Netherlands.

And, Feature, New York, NY.

Jonathan Hammer, The Books: Read ‘em and Weep, (collaboration with Jonathan Hammer and Kevin Killian), Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, NY.

1993

Beyond Loss, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington D.C.

Exquisite Corpse, Drawing Center, traveling exhibition (catalogue), New York, NY.

Mr. Serling’s Neighborhood, Christopher Grimes Gallery, curated by Tom Patchett, Los Angeles, CA.

Sick Joke, Kiki, San Francisco, CA
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1992 The Anti-Masculine, Kim Light Gallery, curated by Bill Arning, Los Angeles, CA.

Perverse/Nature, Mincher/Wilcox Gallery, San Francisco, CA.

Why Painting? Susan Cummings Gallery, curated by Bill Berkeson, Mill Valley, CA.

Still Lives, Zen Center Hospice Guest House, San Francisco, CA.
1991 Mincher/Wilcox Gallery, San Francisco, CA.

Situation, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA (catalogue).

Selections: San Francisco/Bay Area, The Drawing Center, New York, NY.
1990 Que Overdose! Mincher/Wilcox Gallery, curated by Nayland Blake, San Fancisco, CA. (brochure)

San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, (traveled to Columbia), San Francisco, CA.
1988 Nightmare on Valencia Street, Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA.

Crocker – Kingsley Annual, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA.
1987 Connections, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA.

Art Expositions
2004 AADA Art Fair, New York, NY: P·P·O·W Gallery.
2003-1998 San Francisco International Art Exposition, San Francisco, CA: Rena Bransten Gallery.

The New York Armory Show, New York, NY: Rena Bransten Gallery.
2003-2000 Chicago International Art Exposition: Rena Bransten Gallery.
2002 Miami International Art Exposition: Rena Bransten Gallery.

Public Commissions
University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA.

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA.

Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA.


Bibliography


2006

2000


1999

1998

Little, Carl, “Brett Reichman at P·P·O·W,” Art in America, January 2006, pg 121.

Bonetti, David, "Painting Show Evokes Movements," San Francisco Examiner, January 07, 2000, pg C7 .

"Dove va l'arte Duemila?", Tema Celeste, November-December 2000, no 76.

Sciaccaluga, Maurizio. “Chimatelo Godzilla” (Call it Godzilla), Tema Celeste, October-December 1999, pp. 42-51, 98-100.

Bonetti, David. “International Art Fair Dazzler,” San Francisco Examiner, October 2, 1998, pp. C1, C12.

Curtis, Cathy. “Art Reviews: Pieces of Theater in Light, Shadow,” Los Angeles Times, July 14, 1998, p. F3K.

Helfand, Glen. “Hot Stuff: Aesthetic Relief in LA,” Bay Area Reporter, August 13, 1998, vol. 28, no. 23, pp.38-41.

Knaff, Devorah. “Cheap and Tawdry – or is it art,” Orange County Register, July 12, 1998, p. 28.

1997 Berk, Amy. “A Conversation with Brett Reichman,” ArtWeek, September 1997, vol. 28, p. 9.

Porges, Maria. “Reviews: Brett Reichman, Rena Bransten Gallery,” Artforum, September 1997, XXXVI, no. 1, p. 130.

Bonetti, David. “The Young at Art,” San Francisco Examiner, June 18, 1997, p. C1, C9.

Friedman, Roberto. “Gallery Hop,” Bay Area Reporter, April 17, 1997, p. 46.
1995 Bonetti, David. “Looking at Art in a Different Light,” San Francisco Examiner, January 11, 1995, p. B1, B5.

Duncan, Michael. “Queering the Discourse,” Art in America, July 1995, p. 27-31.

Friedman, Roberto. “Different (Brush) Strokes,” Bay Area Reporter, January 19, 1995, p. 1, 43.

Galloway, Munro. “Manifest Disney: l’Eden Selon Disney: Culture Pop et Peinture,” Art Press (special issue on painting), p. 163-166.
1994

Baker, Kenneth. Review, San Francisco Chronicle, June 11, 1994, p. B4.

Bonetti, David. “Exploring the Beauty of Beauty,” San Francisco Examiner, June 1, 1994,
p. B3.

1993 Tager, Alisa. Tema Celeste, Winter 1993, p. 82.

“Goings on About Town,” The New Yorker, November 15, 1993.
1992 Baker, Kenneth. “How Culture Defeats Nature,” San Francisco Chronicle, June 4, 1992, p. E1, E4.

Bonetti, David. “Still a Metaphor for Life?” San Francisco Examiner, April 17, 1992, p. C2.

Bonetti, David. “’Healing,’ ‘Nature,’ Get Group Treatment,” San Francisco Examiner, May 29, 1992, p. D11.

Ewert, Mark and Mitchell Watkins. Ruh Roh!, Issue One, December (published by Feature, New York and Instituting Contemporary Ideas.
1991 Bonetti, David. “Childlike Show Reveals Artits’s Hidden Elf,” San Francisco Examiner, November 29, 1991.

Out/Look, Fall, p. 1.

Watten, Barrett. “Camp Mythologies,” ArtWeek, December 5, 1991.
1990 Abbott, Steve, “Gay Iconography ‘In Context’,” Bay Area Reporter, September 20, 1991.
1989 Baker, Kenneth. “Painter’s Show: Fobbo Boffo,” San Francisco Chronicle, March 4, 1991.
1986 Helfand, Glen. “Connecting with Four Emerging Local Artists,” San Francisco Sentinel, February 6, 1991.

Lecture
2001 Graduate Lecture Series, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA.

Guest Lecturer, The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA.

Guest Lecturer, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA.
1999 Guest Lecturer, The Armand Hammer World College, Las Vegas, NV.
1998 Guest Lecturer, The Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA.

Graduate Lecture Series, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA.

Guest Lecturer, "Day Without Art", University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA.
1995 Graduate Lecture Series, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA.

Guest Lecturer, Noon Lecture Series", University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA.

Grants
2001 San Francisco Art Institute, Faculty Development Grant
1999 Art Council Grant, San Francisco, CA