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REVIEWS/ARTICLES/INTERVIEWS
10/19/23 NYSD Staff, “Pink Muse,” an exhibition of works by Helen Frankenthaler and Watercolors by Debra Drexler.” New York Social Diary, https://www.newyorksocialdiary.com/pink-muse-an-exhibition-of-works-by-helen-frankenthaler-and-watercolors-by-deborah-drexler/
Sept. 2022 Abhishek Sing, “Conversation with Debra Drexler”, Thira Magazine, https://thira.co/conversation-debra-drexler/
June, 2022 Jonathan Goodman, “Debra Drexler at Ann Kendall Richards and ART SHE SAYS”, Tussle Magazine, https://www.tusslemagazine.com/debra-drexler
August Front Room Conversations: Kathleen Vance in Conversation with Debra Drexler https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bbaGm2IUFM
2/28/21 Live @ The MACC Abstraction X3 - A conversation with the artists, Produced by Maui Arts and Cultural Center, YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bbaGm2IUFM
2/27/2020 Claire Selvin, “Armory Week 2020: Here is your Cheat Sheet to the Fairs”, Artnews
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/armory-show-new-york-2020-art-fairs-1202679149/
2/2020 Peggy Cyphers, Guest Editor, New Observations Magazine, Issue 134, pgs. 28 and 32
7-2017. Jonathan Goodman, “”Galkyd, Galkyd, Presents the Best of Today’s Abstraction", Whitehot Magazine, https://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/presents-best-today-s-abstraction/3717
7-26-17 Angela Groom, “Galkyd! Galkyd! at Gallery Gary Giordano, Arte Fuse, https://artefuse.com/2017/07/26/galkyd-galkyd-at-gallery-gary-giordano-125125/
2017 James Kalm, “Debra Drexler: Earth to Sky at Van Der Plas Gallery, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NV2OswcuW5c
Spring, 2016 Rasa Fournier, “Life in the Abstract: Debra Drexler’s large-format, meditative pieces”, Go Kailua, pgs 42-45
11-15-2015 David Goldberg, “An Examination of Abstract Art,” ¨Honolulu Star Bulletin
11-10-2015 Noe Tanegawa. “Welcome to the Sentient World: The New Abstraction” Hawai’i Public Radio. http://hpr2.org/post/welcome-sentient-world-new-abstraction#stream/0
10-2015 Van Der Plas Gallery, “River’s Edge: Debra Drexler,” exhibit catalog. Essay by Robert Edelman
10-15-2015 Brenna Kischuk, “Artist Debra Drexler on the Power of Painting.” The Ange, http://theanglemag.com/look/artist-debra-drexler-on-the-power-of-painting/
10-15-2015 Paul Behnke. “Studio Visit with Debra Drexler.” Structure and Imagery http://structureandimagery.blogspot.com/2015/10/studio-visit-w-debra-drexler.html?spref=fb
1-2-2015 Jamie Martinez, “Paper Trails at Van Der Plas Gallery.” Arte Fuse. http://artefuse.com/2015/01/02/paper-trails-at-van-der-plas-gallery/
11-17-2013 David Goldberg, “Dual art show compares, contrasts isles with mainland.” Honolulu Star Advertiser
8-9-2013 Sara Roffino, “Fridge Fair’s Debut on LES recalls Neighborhood’s DIY Heyday, Artinfo, http://www.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/900171/fridge-report
3-29-2013 Rachel Corbet “Fridge Offers Chill Vibe American Idol Finalist, Artinfo, http://www.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/884721/fridge-fair-promises-chill-vibe-american-idol-finalist-for
11-18-2012 Joleen Oshiro, “Luminosity Stirs Sunny Artist’s Work”, Honolulu Star Bulletin,
11-14-2012 Mindy Pennybacker, “Firebird: A Painter talks about darkness, light and community.” Honolulu Weekly, http://honoluluweekly.com/entertainment/2012/11/firebird/
10-31-2012 James, Cave, “Full Solar Circle”, Honolulu Weekly, http://honoluluweekly.com/hotpicks/2012/10/full-solar-circle/
12-2011 Marcia Morse, “Three Lessons from Artists who Teach, Artery New York City, http://www.arterynyc.com/2011/12/three-lessons-from-artists-who-teach-2/
7-2010 Michael Carter, “Reflecting Pools, Tribes Magazine, http://www.tribes.org/web/2010/06/25/reflecting-pools/ (review of Shadow Play)
4-2010 “Out of Hawai’i”, HI Arts Magazine, issue 8, Spring, 2010 http://hiartmagazine.com/8-spring-10/Out%20Of%20Hawaii/out_of_hawaii.htm
2009 “Shadow Play”, Exhibition Catalog, HP Garcia Gallery, New York, NY, Essay by Lisa Paul Streitfeld (freelance critic: Sculpture Magazine, and New York Times)
1-10-2009 Senz’Anima:l’ultimo paradiso. Monstra Collettiva, Arte:go, http://www.arte.go.it/eventi/2009/e_0154.htm
1-28-2009 Stella Kasian, “Last Paradise Without Soul Alla Primopianio Living Gallery, http://www.teknemedia.net/magazine_detail.html?mId=6230
4-29-2008 Olympia Lambert, “Jumping into Pool Art Fair”, Art Cal Zine –Armory Show Week 2008 Coverage, http://zine.artcal.net/armory2008/contributor/olympia_lambert/
4-28-2008 Jacquelyn Lewis, “Relaxing at Pool, Bustling at Bridge”, Art Info, http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/27236/relaxing-at-pool-bustling-at-bridge/
4-11-2008 Ben Davis, “Art in Flux”, Art Info, http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/reviews/davis/davis4-11-08.asp
Jan/Feb, 2006 Kate Hickey, “Lost in Paradise: Honolulu in Berlin”, New York Arts Magazine, Volume 11, No. 1/2, http://www.nyartsmagazine.com/lost-in-paradise-honolulu-in-berlin-kate-hickey/
7-30-2006 Lesa Griffith, “’Wanderings’ in New York a Dream for UH Students”, Honolulu Advertiser, Honolulu, Hi
8-13-2005 Jacquelyn Carberry, “UH Students Exhibit Art in New York”, Honolulu Star Bulletin, Honolulu, HI
2-10-2006 David Wheeler, “The Arts in Academe” The Chronicle of Higher Education
May/June, 2005 Molly Klienman, “Debra Drexler: Resuscitating Gauguin”, New York Arts Magazine, Volume 10, No. 5.
http://www.nyartsmagazine.com/debra-drexler-resuscitating-gauguin-molly-kleiman-2/
Spring, 2004 Marcia Morse, “Gauguin’s Zombie”, The Contemporary Pacific, Volume 16, Number 1
2004 “High Art and Low Life,” Catalogue of Exhibition, Gallery 210, University of Missouri, St. Louis
June, 2003 Marcia Morse, “Debra Drexler-Gauguin’s Zombie at the Maui Arts and Cultural Center’s Schafer International Gallery”, Artweek Magazine, Los Angeles, California (name featured on cover review and photo page 22)
April/May 03 Rita Goldman, “Gauguin’s Zombie”, Centerpiece Magazine, Maui Arts and Cultural Center, (color photo cover, photo page 2, article and color photos pages 22-27)
6-25-2003 Paul Janes-Brown, “’Gauguin’s Zombie’: Fresh Perspectives on a Body of Work”, The Maui News, Maui, Hawai’i (review and color photos)
2002 “Gauguin’s Zombie”, Exhibition Catalogue, Honolulu Academy (now Honolulu Museum, Honolulu, HI
10-24-2002 Joleen Oshiro, “Gauguin Walks Again”, Honolulu Star Bulletin, Honolulu, HI, (review and color photographs)
10-2-2002 Marcia Morse, “Modernism and Mousepads”, The Weekly, Honolulu, HI (review and photographs)
9-29-2002 Victoria Gail-White, “Gauguin’s Zombie”, The Honolulu Advertiser, Honolulu, HI (review and photographs)
9-19-2002 Mary Kaye Ritz, “Follow in the Footsteps of Gauguin’s Zombie, If you Dare", The Honolulu Advertiser, Honolulu, HI (feature article and color photographs)
CITATIONS IN BOOKS
Heather Waldroup. Gauguin’s Challenge: New Perspectives After Postmodernism, “Re-Possessing Gauguin: Material Histories and the Contemporary Pacific,”Norma Broude, editor, Bloomsbury, 2018. (accepted for publication)
Sarah Juliet Lauro. The Transatlantic Zombie: Slavery, Rebellion and Living Death. “Textual Zombies in the Visual Arts: The Zombification of Paul Gauguin”: pages 178-186. Rutgers University Press, 2015.
Lucy Lippard, On the Beaten Track: Tourism, Art, and Place, New York: The New Press, 1999