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Jonathan Lasker

Born1948 in Jersey City, NJ
EDUCATION
1975-77School of Visual Arts, New York
1977California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
AWARDS
1987National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grant
1989New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship Grant
1989National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grant
ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
1981Landmark Gallery, New York
 Gunnar Kaldewey, Düsseldorf, Germany
1984Annette Gmeiner, Kirchzarten, Germany
 Tibor de Nagy, New York
1986Michael Werner, Cologne, Germany
 Tibor de Nagy, New York
 Massimo Audiello, New York
1987Michael Werner, Cologne, Germany
 Anders Tornberg, Lund, Sweden
1988Massimo Audiello, New York
 Gian Enzo Sperone, Rome, Italy
1989Massimo Audiello, New York
1990Michael Werner, Cologne, Germany
 Anders Tornberg, Lund, Sweden
1991Gian Enzo Sperone, Rome, Italy
 Schmidt-Markow, St. Louis, MO
 Annette Gmeiner, Stuttgart, Germany
 Lars Bohman, Stockholm, Sweden
 Sperone Westwater, New York
1992Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pensylvania, Philadelphia, PA
 Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
 Baumgartner Galleries, Inc., Washington, D.C.
 Eugene Binder, Dallas, TX
1993Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, Holland
 Rhona Hoffman, Chicago, IL
 Bernd Klüser, Munich, Germany
 Sperone Westwater, New York
1994Galerie Buchmann, Basel, Switzerland
 Lars Bohman, Stockholm, Sweden
1994Bravin Post Lee, New York
1995Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid, Spain
 L.A. Louver, Venice, CA
1996Sperone Westwater, New York
1997Velge et Noirhomme, Brussels, Belgium
 Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
 Galerie Kienzle und Gmeiner, Berlin, Germany
 Galleria Milleventi, Turin, Italy
 Schmidt Contemporary Art, Saint Louis, MO
1997-98Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Holland; Kunstverein St. Gallen im Kunstmuseum, St. Gallen, Switzerland, "Jonathan Lasker: Paintings 1977-1997"
1998Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, England
 ART C. association art contemporain, Ville d'Issoire, France
 Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid, Spain
1999Sperone Westwater, New York
1999-2000The Forum for Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO; The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada; Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, MA; Birmingham Museum of Art, AL, "Jonathan Lasker: Selective Identity, Paintings from the 1990s"
2000Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, "Jonathan Lasker: Oeuvres Récentes"
2001Galleri Lars Bohman, Stockholm, Sweden
2002The Art Show, Booth A5, Sperone Westwater, New York
Galerie Thomas Schulte, “Four Large Scale Works,” Berlin.
Galleri Wang, Oslo, Norway.
2003Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, “Jonathan Lasker”, Madrid
Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin.
Kunstsammlung Nordhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1981Landmark Gallery, New York
 Tony Shafrazi, New York
 Novo Gallery, New York
 Patrick Verelst, Antwerp, Belgium
1982Landmark Gallery, New York, "Tenth Anniversary Exhibition"
1983Tibor de Nagy, New York, "On An Intimate Dimension"
 Hamilton Gallery, New York, "New Biomorphism and Automatism"
1984Tibor de Nagy, New York, "Fact and Fiction"
 Gabrielle Bryers, New York, "Jonathan Lasker/Renee Lynch"
 Proctor Art Center, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
 Hadler Rodriguez Gallery, New York
198555 Mercer Gallery, New York, "2. Smart Art, Too," Joseph Masheck, Curator
 Cash/Newhouse Gallery, New York, "Final Love," Collins & Milazzo, Curators
 Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, "Smart Art: New Work from NY," Joseph Masheck, Curator
 Postmasters Gallery, New York, "Paravision," Collins & Milazzo, Curators
 Wolff Gallery, New York, "Abstract Painting"
 Tibor de Nagy, New York, "Summer Exhibition"
 Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany, "Kölner Herbstsalon"
 Sherry French Gallery, New York, "Abstract/Issues," Steven Madoff, Curator
 Wacoal Art Center, Tokyo, Japan, "Vernacular Abstraction"
 Tibor de Nagy, New York, "Cult and Decorum," Collins & Milazzo, Curators
 Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York
1986Annette Gmeiner, Kirchzarten, Germany, "Drawings"
 Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
 Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA; Klein Gallery, Chicago, IL, "Abstraction/Abstraction," Elaine King, Curator
 Margo Leavin, Los Angeles, CA, "Paravision II," Collins & Milazzo, Curators
 Tony Shafrazi, New York, "What It Is," Wilfried Dickhoff, Curator
 American Fine Arts Co., New York, "Modern Sleep," Collins & Milazzo, Curators
 Tibor de Nagy, New York, "The Kaldewey Press"
 Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, "The Intuitive Line"
1987Rathbone Gallery, Russell Sage College, Albany, NY, "The Shape of Abstraction"
 Laurie Rubin, New York, "Interstices," Jonathan Seliger, Curator
 The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., "Fortieth Biennial Exhibition of Painting," Ned Rifkin, Curator
 Postmasters Gallery, New York
 Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT, "Post-Abstract Abstraction," Eugene Schwartz, Curator
 Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL; Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA, "Cal-Arts: Skeptical Belief(s)"
 Massimo Audiello, New York
 Annette Gmeiner, Stuttgart, Germany, "Meine Maler"
 Michael Werner, Cologne, Germany
 Mayor Rowan Gallery, London, England, "New York, New Art"
1988Saatchi Collection, London, England, "N.Y. Art Now"
 Lang & O'Hara, New York
 Rooseum, Malmo, Sweden, "Art at the End of the Social," Collins & Milazzo, Curators
 University of North Texas, Denton, TX; J. B. Speed Museum, Louisville, KY; Alberta College of Art, Edmonton, Canada; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH; Richard F. Brush Gallery, St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY; Santa Fe Community College, Gainesville, FL, "Hybrid Neutral," Collins & Milazzo, Curators
 The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Thomas J. Watson Library, New York, "The Kaldewey Press"
 Kunstverein Hochrhein e.v., Villa Berberich, Bad Säckingen, Germany, "Schwarzwaldbild"
 White Columns, New York, "Benefit Exhibition"
1989Shea & Beker, New York, "Diagrams & Surrogates," Saul Ostrow, Curator
 Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Holland, "Horn of Plenty," Gosse Oosterhof, Curator
 Emily Lowe Gallery, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY, "The Pellizzi Collection"
 Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery, Salzburg, Austria, "The Silent Baroque," Christian Leigh, Curator
 Galleria Regionale di Palazzo Bellomo, Siracusa, Italy, "Specchi Ustori," Demetrio Paparoni and Michelangelo Castello, Curators
 Daniel Newburg, New York, "Drawings"
1990Marc Richards Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, "Spellbound," Christian Leigh, Curator
 Scott Hanson Gallery, New York, "Token Gestures," Collins & Milazzo, Curators
 Anders Tornberg, Lund, Sweden
 Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT, "Mythic Moderns," Jude Schwendenwien, Curator
 Nicole Klagsbrun, New York, "Benefit Exhibition"
 Joensuu Art Museum, Joensuu, Finland, "Maailmat, Worlds '90 International Art Show"
 Daniel Weinberg, Los Angeles, CA, "Benefit Exhibition"
 Tony Shafrazi, New York, "The Last Decade: American Artists of the 80's," Collins & Milazzo, Curators
 Pace Gallery, New York, "Painting Alone," Rainer Crone and David Moos, Curators
 Philippe Briet, New York, "Clyfford Still: A Dialogue," Alan Jones, Curator
 New York Public Library, Gottesman Exhibition Hall, New York, "On Paper: The History of an Art"
 Tibor de Nagy, New York, "Fortieth Anniversary Exhibition"
1991Wolff Gallery, New York and Feigen, Inc., Chicago, IL, "Strategies for the Next Painting," Saul Ostrow, Curator
 Grossman Gallery, School of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, "Between Intuition and Reason, Saint Clair Cemin/Jonathan Lasker"
 Usdan Gallery, Bennington College, Bennington, VT, "Hybrid Abstract," Joshua Decter, Curator1
 Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy, "Anni Novanta," Renato Barilli and Pier Giovanni Castagnoli, Curators
 Perry Rubenstein, New York, "The Thing," Vik Muniz, Curator
 Sperone Westwater, New York
 Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., "New Acquisitions"
 Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC, "Art on Paper"
 John Good, New York, "La Metafisica della Luce," Demetrio Paparoni, Curator
 Sidney Janis, New York, "Conceptual Abstraction"
 Matthew Marks, New York, "Benefit Exhibition"
1992Max Protetch, New York, "Stubborn Painting: Now & Then," Ruth Kaufman and Mike Metz, Curators
 Sandra Gering, New York, "Shades of Difference," Shirley Kaneda, Curator
 Galerie nächst St. Stephan, Vienna, Austria, "Abstract Painting Between Analysis and Synthesis"
 Dayton Art Institute & Museum of Contemporary Art, Wright State University, Dayton, OH, "The City of Influence: Ross Bleckner, Peter Halley, Jonathan Lasker," Barry Rosenberg, Curator
 P.S.1 Museum, Long Island City, New York, "Slow Art: Painting in New York Now," Alana Heiss and Warren Niesluchowski, Curators
 Museo Regione Autonoma Della Valle d'Aosta, Aosta, Italy, "Theoretically Yours," Collins & Milazzo, Curators
 Schmidt Contemporary Art, Saint Louis, MO, "Abstract Painting 1992"
 Documenta Halle, Kassel, Germany, "Documenta IX"
 Rolf Ricke, Cologne, Germany, "Kinder! Macht Neues!"
 Sperone Westwater, New York
 Morat Institut Für Kunst Und Kunstwissenschaft, Freiburg, Germany, "Kunstprodukt Heimat," Klaus Merkel, Curator
 Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
 Annina Nosei, New York, "Who's Afraid of Duchamp, Minimalism, and Passport Photography?," Collins & Milazzo, Curators
 Galleria Galliani, Genoa, Italy
1993Ruth Bloom, Santa Monica, CA, "The Brush Stroke"
 Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., "The Permanent Collection Revisited"
 Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France, "New York on Paper"
 Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy, and Guggenheim Museum Soho, New York, "Drawing the Line Against AIDS"
 Pamela Auchincloss, New York, "Color"
 Sammlung Götz, Munich, Germany, "New York Painters"
 Baumgartner Gallery, Washington, D.C., "New Moderns," Joseph Masheck, Curator
 Art Museum of the Americas, Washington, D.C., "Off the Mall: Inside Washington's Foremost Art Galleries"
 Raymond Bollag, Zurich, Switzerland, "Zeichnungen Setzen Zeichen, Kunstler Der Documenta IX"
 Galerie nächst St. Stephan, Vienna, Austria
 Grolier Club, New York, "The American Livre de Peintre"
 Sperone Westwater, New York, "The Spirit of Drawing"
 Galleria D'Arte Moderna, San Marino, San Marino Republic, "Italy-America: Abstraction Redefined," Demetrio Paparoni, Curator
 Paolo Goyannes, Paris; Tennisport, Long Island City, NY, "Jours tranquilles à Clichy," Alain Kirili, Curator
 Sperone Westwater, New York, "Summer Exhibition"
1994Bardamu Gallery, New York, "Possible Things," Vik Muniz, Curator
 Todd Gallery, London; John Hansard Gallery, University of Southampton, England, "Choice, Chance and Irony"
 Hayward Gallery, London, England, "Unbound: Possibilities in Painting," Greg Hilty and Adrian Searle, Curators
 Galerie De L'École Des Beaux-Arts, Lorient, France, "Le Temps D'Un Dessin," Phillippe Briet, Curator
 Thread Waxing Space, New York, "Written /Spoken/Drawn in Lacanian Ink"
 Bravin Post Lee, New York
 Rhona Hoffman, Chicago, IL, "Painting"
 Charles Cowles, New York, "About Color"
 Galeri F15 Alby, Moss, Norway, "8 Rooms for Paiting," Gertrud Sandquist, curator
 Sperone Westwater, New York, "Summer Exhibition"
 U.C.L.A. at the Armand Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, "The Assertive Image: Artists of the Eighties from the Eli Broad Family Foundation"
 Robert Miller, New York, "Abstract Works on Paper"
 Schmidt Contemporary Art, Saint Louis, MO, "On Paper"
 Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, FL, "Abstraction: A Tradition of Collecting"
 Galleries Caterina Fossati, Eva Menzio, Giovanni Rimoldi, Turin, Italy, "American Paining Now"
 Galleria Carini, Prato, Italy, "Tutti Questi Mondi"
1995Sperone Westwater, New York, "Emblems and Contours"
 Museo De Arte y Diseño Contemporaneo, San Jose, Costa Rica, "Mesotica (the America non-Representativa)"
 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, "Repicturing Abstraction"
 Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Houston, TX; Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Alberta College of Art, Edmonton, Canada; Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE; U.C.L.A. at the Armand Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA; Madison Art Center, Madison, WI; Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables, FL; Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL; Frederick R. Weisman Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, "Critiques of Pure Abstraction," Mark Rosenthal, Curator
 Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland, "ARS 95 Helsinki"
 Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg, "Swinging Sixties, Sparkling Nineties"
 Barbara Farber, Amsterdam, Holland, "Architecture of the Mind," David Moos, Curator
 Kunstverein Rheinland-Westpfalen, Dusseldorf, Germany; Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany, "Das Abenteuer Der Malerei," Raimund Stecker and Martin Hentschel, Curators
 Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas, Venezuela, "Transatlantica: The America Europa Non-Representativa," Jacob Karpio and Ruth Auerbach, Curators
 Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany, "Positionen: Beobachtungen Zum Stand Der Malerei In Den 90er Jahren"
 Sperone Westwater, New York, "Summer Exhibition"
 Contemporary Art Museum, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL; Wolfson Galleries, Miami-Dade Community College, Miami, FL; Robert Hull Fleming Museum, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, "Refab-Painting Abstracted, Fabricated and Revised," Shirley Kaneda and Rochelle Feinstein, Curators
 Charles Cowles, New York, "Under Glass"
 Deutsches Haus, Columbia University, New York, "More Hysteria Please," Josefina Ayerza, Curator
 Manfred Baumgartner, Washington, D.C.
 Centre National D'Art Contemporain, Grenoble, France, "Morceaux Choisis Du F.N.A.C."
 Kunstverein St. Gallen im Kunstmuseum, St. Gallen, Switzerland, "Color and Paint"
 L.A. Louver, Los Angeles, CA
1996Friederich Petzel, New York"Screen," Joshua Decter, Curator
 Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, and Salzburg, Austria, "Pratiques Abstraites"
 Monika Sprüth, Cologne, Germany, "Malerei II"
 Placio de Velazquez, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain; Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany; Museu d'Art Contemporani, Barcelona, Spain, "Nuevas Abstracciones," Enrique 66 Juncosa, Curator
 Rolf Ricke, Cologne, Germany, "Form Als Ziel Mündet Immer In Formalismus"
 Sperone Westwater, New York, "Summer Exhibition"
 Gotland Konstmuseum, Gotland, Sweden, "The New York Scene"
 Robert McClain, Houston, TX, "Investigations: American Abstraction"
 Kunsthalle Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, "Playpen & Corpus Delirium"
 Forum for Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO, "Reconditioned Abstraction," Martin Ball, Curator
 Bravin Post Lee, New York
 MacDonald Stewart Art Center, University of Ontario, Guelph, Canada, "New York Abstraction," David Moos, Curator
 Baumgartner Galleries, Washington, D.C., "12 Years After: Jonathan Lasker, Thomas Nozkowski, Gary Stephan"
 LaGuardia Hall, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY, "The New Narrative Abstraction," Maria Rand, Curator
1997Musée d'Art Moderne, St. Étienne, France, "Abstraction/Abstractions-Géometries Provisoires," Eric De Chassey and Camille Morineau, Curators
 Baumgartner Galleries, Washington, D.C., "New York On Paper"
 Bernd Kluser, Munich, Germany
 Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY, "After the Fall: Aspects of Abstract Painting Since 1970," Lilly Wei, Curator
 Bertha & Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, Hunter College, New York, "Turning the Corner: Abstraction at the End of the Twentieth Century"
 Sperone Westwater, New York, "Summer Exhibition"
 Peter Stuyvesant Foundation, Amsterdam, Holland, "Groi in de Collectie"
 Johnson Community College Gallery of Art, Overland Park, KS, "Essential Gestures "
 Berufsvereinigung Der Bilden Künstler Voralsberg, Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn und Taxis, Bregenz, Austria, "Licht Raum . . . Schwarz"
1998Mark Müller, Zurich, Switzerland, "Sensation der Farbe"
 Museum of American Art of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA, "Pop/Abstraction," Sid Sachs, Curator
 White Columns, New York, "Raise the Roof: Benefit Exhibition"
 Gallerie Evelyne Canus, La Colle-Sur-Loup, France, "Painting Objectives," Shirley Kaneda, Curator
 Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, "Connections and Contradictions: Modern and Contemporary Art from Atlanta Collections," Genevieve Arnold, Curator
1999Villa du Parc, Annemasse, "Peinture, démarches actuelles,"
 Schmidt Contemporary Art, St. Louis, "Mixed Bag: Summer Group Show"
 Johnson County College, Gallery of Art, Overland Park, KS, "In Site: Constructing the JCC Collection"
 Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, "Abstraction"
2000Jan Weiner Gallery, Kansas City, "Universal Abstraction 2000"
 Sala de Exposiciones del Palacio Episcopal, Málaga, Spain, "Paisajes de la colección en Málaga. Colección de Arte Contemporaneo, Fundacion la Caixa"
 Museo d'Arte della Citta di Ravenna, Ravenna "Arte Americana; Ultimo Decennio"
 Eugene Binder, New York, "small abstract paintings and sculpture"
 Michael Hue-Williams Fine Art, London, "Painting, I Love"
 Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, "Post Pop"
 Marcel Sitcoske Gallery, San Francisco, "Lasker, Marcaccio, Usle"
 Timothy Taylor Gallery, London
 Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
2001Kevin Bruk Gallery, Miami, "New paintings"
 Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, The Centre of Contemporary Art, "American Art from the Goetz Collection, Munich"
 Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, "Between Language and Form"
Nusser & Baumgart Contemporary, Munich, “Choose Your Partner”
Colby College Museum of Art, Maine, “Drawn From a Family”
Galerie Mark Müller, Zurich
2003“Inaugural Groupshow,” Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, May 21-June 7.
2004"Co-Conspirators: Artist and Collector, The Collection of James Cottrell and Joseph Lovett," Orlando Museum of Art, July 24- October 31, 2004.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1981Welch, Douglas, "Jonathan Lasker," Arts Magazine, January, illus: "Sceptre," color, p. 2
 Smith, Roberta, "Group Exhibition at Tony Shafrazi," Village Voice, 21 October
1982Apfelschnit, Carl, "Bwanna's Nightmare," Bomb, no. 4, illus: "Bwanna's Nightmare," b/w, p. 48
1984Ratcliff, Carter, Fact & Fiction, catalogue essay for exhibition at Tibor de Nagy Gallery, illus: "Nature Study," color
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1985Carrier, David, "Painting into Depth: Jonathan Lasker's Recent Art," Arts Magazine, January, illus: "Strawberry Fields," "Nature Study," color, "Ascension," b/w, pp. 142-144
 Cameron, Dan, "The Groundhog Report," Arts Magazine, February, p. 96
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1986Jones, Alan, "Cult of Decorum," New York Talk, January, illus: "Large Weather," b/w, p. 67
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1987Seliger, Jonathan, "Interstices," Arts Magazine, March, illus: "An Argot For The Supreme Being," color, pp. 66 - 69
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 Martinsson, Sten, "Jonathan Lasker at Anders Tornberg," Malmo Kvallsposten, 19 November, illus: "Tribal Publicity," b/w
 Zeylon, Hakan, "Jonathan Lasker at Anders Tornberg," Skanska Dagbladet, 18 November, illus: "The Aberrant Future," b/w
 Wachtmeister, Marika, "Jonathan Lasker at Anders Tornberg," Sydsvenska Dagbladet, 12 November, illus: "To Regain Virginity," b/w
 Mueller, Cookie, "Art and About," Details, February, pp. 69-70
 Barbiero, Daniel, "The Fortieth Corcoran Biennial," New Art Examiner, Summer, pp. 30-31
 Unauthored, Jonathan Lasker: Paintings 1986-1987, catalogue for exhibition at Anders Tornberg, illus.: "Tribal Publicity," "Kinds of Love," "The Aberrant Future," "Ego Worship," "Eye Sex," "To Manufacture Transcendence," color
1988Rantanen, Mari, "Interview with Jonathan Lasker," Helsingin Sanomat, 21 February, illus: "Popular Psyche," color, p. A16
 Zinsser, John, "Plotting Self-Doubt: The Paintings of Jonathan Lasker and Tom Nozkowski," Arts Magazine, May, illus: "Rogue Modernity," color, pp. 82-83
 Huebler, Douglas, John Miller, Stephen Prina, et al., CalArts: Skeptical Belief(s), catalogue essays for exhibition at Renaissance Society and Newport Harbor Art Museum, illus: "The Age of Plastic," b/w, p. 4
 Mahoney, Robert, "Jonathan Lasker at Massimo Audiello," Arts Magazine, Summer, p. 108
 Hatton, Brian, "N.Y. Art Now 2," Flash Art, Summer, p. 142
 Collins & Milazzo, Gary Indiana, Hybrid Neutral, Modes of Abstraction and The Social, catalogue essays for travelling exhibition, illus: "Compound Beliefs," b/w, p. 45
 Rantanen, Mari, "Interview with Jonathan Lasker," Taide Magazine, August, illus: "The Conscious Subconscious," "Contemporary Tribalism," "Primordial Teenage," "Double Play," color, pp. 38-42
 Brüderlin, Markus, Schwarzwaldbild, catalogue essay for exhibition at Kunstverein Hochrhein, illus: "A Week's Work in the Schwarzwald," color
 Zinsser, John, "Jonathan Lasker at Massimo Audiello," Art in America, November, illus: "The Realm of the Quaint," color, pp. 179-180
 Wachtmeister, Marika, "Fran Elverk Till Konst Museum, Rooseum," Femina Magasin, December, illus: "Today's Universe," color, pp. 120-124
 Morera, Daniela, "N.Y. Art," L'Uomo Vogue, December, pp. 141-144
1989Oosterhof, Gosse, Dan Cameron, Horn of Plenty, catalogue essays for exhibition at Stedelijk Museum, illus: "Cosmic Shorthand," "Digital Affection," "Double Play," Abstract America," color, "Fake Freak," b/w
 Ostrow, Saul, Diagrams & Surrogates, catalogue essay for exhibition at Shea & Beker Gallery, illus: "The Redundant Sublime," color, p. 8
 Meloni, Lucilla, "Jonathan Lasker at G.E. Sperone," Tema Celeste, January-March, illus: "Fake Freak," b/w, p. 69
 Mammí, Alessandra, "Jonathan Lasker at G.E. Sperone," Artforum, February, illus: "Fake Freak," b/w, p. 142
 Collins & Milazzo, Hyperframes, Post Appropriation Discourse, The Yale Lectures, Volume I, Editions Antoine Candau, Paris, paperbound, 55 pp. (English text), 57 pp. (French text)
 Schwendenwien, Jude, "The Silent Baroque," Contemporanea, October, illus: "Psychic Governance," p. 89
 Collins & Milazzo, Cultural Promiscuity: A Dialogue With Jonathan Lasker, Gian Enzo Sperone Editions, paperbound, unpaginated, illus: 13 Studies for a painting entitled "Cultural Promiscuity," color
 Draxler, Helmut, "The Silent Baroque," Flash Art, October, p. 144
 Smith, Roberta, "Jonathan Lasker at Massimo Audiello," The New York Times, 27 October, p. C30
 Leigh, Christian, editor, with numerous contributors, The Silent Baroque, Thaddaeus Ropac Editions, hardbound, 288 pp., illus: "Psychic Governance," color, 6 drawing project entitled "The Ornate Psyche," b/w
 Paparoni, Demetrio, "Conversation With Jonathan Lasker," Tema Celeste, October-December, illus: "Born Yesterday," "Those of Questionable Existence," "Notes From a Wooden Computer," color, pp. 51-53
 Westfall, Stephan, "Jonathan Lasker at Massimo Audiello," Art Today (monthly video tape publication), November, vol. 1 no. 1
 Glueck, Grace, "Around Los Angeles, Private Foundations Offer Art to The Public," The New York Times, 28 December, pp. C13, C16
 Collins & Milazzo, Art at the End of the Social, catalogue essay for exhibition at the Rooseum, illus: "Contemporary Tribalism," "For A Small Country," "Beer Culture," "Today's Universe," color, pp. 184-187
 Scuteri, Rosma, "Jonathan Lasker at G.E. Sperone," Flash Art, Italian Edition, February-March, illus: "Fake Freak," b/w, p. 113
 Van Nieuwenhuyzen, Martijn, "Horn of Plenty," Flash Art, International Edition, March-April, p. 102
 Bosma, Marja, "Horn of Plenty," Contemporanea, May, illus: "Digital Affection," color, p. 94
 Holst, Lise, "Diagrams and Surrogates," Artnews, May, p. 171
 Lombardi, Angela, "Interview with Jonathan Lasker," Tema Celeste, April-June, illus: "Cosmic Vernacular," "The Realm of the Quaint," "The New Infancy," color, pp. 62-63
 Greenspan, Stuart, "Art 2,The Schorr Collection," Art & Auction, March, illus: "The New Infancy," color, pp. 138-141
 Masheck, Joseph, David Shapiro, F. Pellizzi, P. Gettinger, 1979-1989 American, Italian, Mexican Art from the Collection of Francesco Pellizzi, catalogue essays for exhibition at Hofstra University, illus: "Spiritual Entertainment," color, p. 37
 Higuchi, Shoichiro, "Artist in New York: Jonathan Lasker," Anthropos, November, illus: "Cosmic Vernacular," color, pp. 132-134
 Paparoni, Demetrio, & Michelangelo Castello, Specchi Ustori, Tema Celeste Edizioni, Siracusa, Italy, paperbound, 133 pp., illus: series of 4 drawings
1990Kaneda, Shirley, "Interview with Jonathan Lasker," Bomb, Winter, illus: "Born Yesterday," "Arcane Reasoning," "Worlds of Mutual Exclusion," b/w, pp. 16-19
 Schwendenwien, Jude, "A Thousand Words, Jonathan Lasker's Sublime Discourse," Artscribe, January-February, illus: "Today's Universe ," "Popular Psyche," "The Big Picture," color, pp. 58-61
 Masheck, Joseph, "Painting in Double Negative, Jonathan Lasker's Third-Stream Abstraction," Arts Magazine, January, illus: "Baroque Transparency," "Expressive Abstinence," "Born Yesterday," "Gutteral Antiquity," color, pp. 38-43
 MacAdam, Barbara, "Jonathan Lasker at Massimo Audiello," Artnews, February, illus: "Born Yesterday," b/w, pp. 154-155
 Collins & Milazzo, Token Gestures, catalogue essay for exhibition at Scott Hanson Gallery, illus: "After Right and Wrong," b/w, unpaginated
 Higuchi, Shoichiro, "This Side and the Opposite Side of Lasker's Screen," Idea, March, illus: "Obscure Designs," "Notes from a Wooden Computer," color, "Contemporary Tribalism," b/w, pp. 126-127
 Carrier, David, "Abstract Working Spaces: Jonathan Lasker at Massimo Audiello," Art International, Spring, illus: "Rural Geometry," color, pp. 68-70
 Kisters, Juergen, "Galerie Werner Zeigt Jonathan Lasker," Kölner Stadt Anzeiger, April 21/22
 Ratcliff, Carter, "Notes on Line," Art in America, June, illus: "Euphoric Routines," color, pp. 152-157
 Rantanen, Mari, Worlds, Maailmat '90, catalogue essay for exhibition at Joensuu Art Museum, illus: "Worlds of Mutual Exclusion," "Today's Universe," color, pp. 21-25
 Reindl, Uta, "Jonathan Lasker at Michael Werner," Kunstforum, June-July, illus: "Arcadian Sections," color, p. 312
 Schwendenwien, Jude, The Significance of Moments, catalogue essay for solo exhibition at Michael Werner Gallery, illus: "Terse Psyche," "Simple Painting," "Gutteral Antiquity," "Formalities of Self," "Standards of Expression," "Arcadian Sections," "Born Yesterday," "Infant Wisdom," "To Be A Thing," "Cosmic Self-Evidence," color
 Snitzer, Joan, "Token Gestures," Tema Celeste, July-October, pp. 68-69
 Crone, Rainer and David Moos, "Painting at a Moment," Painting Alone, catalogue essay for exhibition at Pace Gallery, illus: "The Spiritual Economy," color, p. 51
 Pincus-Witten, Robert, and Collins & Milazzo, The Last Decade: American Artists of the Eighties, catalogue essays for exhibition at Tony Shafrazi Gallery, illus: "Mantra to a Distracted God," color
 Collins & Milazzo, Hyperframes: A Post Appropriation Discourse, Volume II, Editions Antoine Candau, Paris, paperbound, 108 pp., (English text), 117 pp. (French text)
 Smith, Roberta, "Painting Alone," The New York Times, 12 October, p. C23
 Reisman, David, "Token Gestures," Artscribe, September-October, p. 88
 Schwabsky, Barry, "Forwarding Address: Abstract Painting in Some Recent Manifestations," Arts Magazine, November, pp. 96-97
 Zetterstrom, Jelena, "Spänning Rörelse: Jonathan Lasker at Anders Tornberg," Sydsvenska Dagbladet, 24 November
 Kaneda, Shirley, "Painting Alone," Arts Magazine, December, p. 84
 Unauthored, Jonathan Lasker, catalogue for solo exhibition at Anders Tornberg Gallery, illus.: 16 untitled darwings, color
 Kuspit, Donald, Artforum, December, pp. 131-132
 Balmas, Paolo, "New York, A Kaleidoscope from Outside: Jonathan Lasker at Massimo Audiello," Segno, Annual Edition, p. 36
1991Ostrow, Saul, "Painting Alone," Tema Celeste, January-February, p. 90
 Ostrow, Saul, Strategies for the Next Painting, catalogue essay for exhibition at Wolff Gallery and Feigen Inc., illus: "Some Like Love," b/w, p. 6
 Masheck, Joseph, "Haven't We Met Before? Between Intuition and Reason," catalogue essay for exhibition at the Grossman Gallery, unpaginated, illus: "Double Play," "After Right and Wrong," "The Big Picture," color
 Collins & Milazzo, "From Kitsch to Kant and Back Again," Tema Celeste, January-February, pp. 76-80
 Jones, Alan, "Carte Blanche: Books in Artists' Lives, Part II," Arts Magazine, February, pp. 25-26
 Crone, Rainer and David Moos, "Romance of the Real," Interpreting Contemporary Art, essay in an anthology. Stephen Bann and William Allen, Editors, Reaktion Books, paperbound, 229 pp., illus.: "Double Play," color, "Main Event," "The Excessive Norm," "Flowers Bomb," "Baroque Transparency," b/w
 Paparoni, Demetrio, "Le Pulsioni Dell'Arte," Riza Scienze, April, illus: "Mantra To a Distracted God," color, p. 53 and magazine cover
 Ayerza, Josefina and Lynn Crawford, "Jonathan Lasker" and "Abstracts of a Conversation with the Artist," Lancanian Ink, no. 3, illus: 6 untitled drawings, b/w, pp. 68-75 and back cover
 Kaneda, Shirley, "Painting and Its Others," Arts Magazine, Summer, p. 62
 Forstbauer, Nikolai, "Feuilleton: Liebenswerter Kunst-Irrgarten," Stuttgarter Nachrichten, 13 June, illus: "Born Yesterday," b/w
 Forstbauer, Nikolai, "Was Für Eine Grossartige Malerei," Stuttgarter Nachrichten, 24 June, illus: "Why Things Are," b/w
 Forstbauer, Nikolai, "Jonathan Lasker: Why Things Are Born Yesterday," Zyma, 24 June, illus: "Born Yesterday," "Cosmic Self-Evidence," "To Be A Thing," color, pp. 22-25
 Ericsson, Lars, "Jonathan Lasker at Lars Bohman," Dagens Nyheter, 6 September, illus: untitled oil study, color, p. B3
 Newhall, Edith, "Fall Preview," New York Magazine, 23 September, p. 62
 Sandqvist, Gertrud, "Jonathan Lasker at Lars Bohman," Svenska Dagbladet, 21 September
 Mahoney, Robert, Arts Magazine, October, p. 95
 Barilli, Renato, Jan Avgikos, et al., Anni Novanta, catalogue essays for exhibition at the Bologna Galleria d'Arte Moderna, illus: "Cosmic Self-Evidence," color, "Public Love," "Ode to a Mutt," b/w., pp. 62, 63
 Hagen, Charles, "Art in Review: Jonathan Lasker at Sperone Westwater," The New York Times, 18 October, p. C28
 Gookin, Kirby, Rainer Crone, and David Moos, "Drawing a Line Between Illusion and Reality," and "The Status of Beauty: Jonathan Lasker and the Rose," Jonathan Lasker, catalogue essays for solo exhbition at Sperone Westwater Gallery, illus: "Fake Freak," "The Politics of Reality," "Digital Affection," "Histrionic Infinity," "The Big Picture," "Euphoric Routines," "How To Be," "Some Share Eternity," "Public Love," "To Believe in Food," "The History Of The Boudoir," "Improved Expressions," "To an Object of Love," "Polite Cosmos," "The Power of Weakness," "The Division of Happiness," color; "Arcadian Sections," "Cosmic Self-Evidence," b/w
 Wheeler, Daniel, Art Since Mid-Century: 1945 to the Present, Vendome Press, hardbound, 344 pp., illus: "Today's Universe," color
 Paparoni, Demetrio, The Metaphysics of Light, catalogue essay for exhibition at John Good Gallery, illus: "Rustic Psyche," color
 Paparoni, Demetrio, "Conversation with Jonathan Lasker," Tema Celeste, Autumn, illus: "The Cosmic Vernacular," "Standards of Expression," "The Meaning of Pleasure," "Love's Rhetoric," color, pp. 88-89, cover
 Görner, Veit, "Expertentip-Etabliertes Für Einsteiger," Pan, October, illus: "Born Yesterday," color, p. 24
 Janis, Carroll, Jonathan Lasker, et al., Conceptual Abstraction, catalogue essay for exhibition at Sidney Janis Gallery, unpaginated, illus: "Arcadian Sections," b/w
 Balmas, Paolo, "Il Caso Lasker," Segno, September, pp. 20, 22-23
 Weinstein, Matthew, "Jonathan Lasker at Sperone Westwater," Artforum, December, illus: "Polite Cosmos," b/w, pp. 97-98
 Schwabsky, Barry, "Jonathan Lasker at Sperone Westwater," Arts Magazine, December, illus: "The Power of Weakness," color, p. 66
 Kaufman, Ruth, Mike Metz, Stubborn Painting, catalogue essays for exhibition at Max Protetch Gallery, unpaginated, illus: "Natural Formality," "Canaletto," "The Excessive Norm," b/w
 Richardson, Trevor, Art on Paper, catalogue essay for exhibition at Weatherspoon Art Gallery, illus: untitled drawing, b/w, p. 15
 Smith, Roberta, "Art in Review-Conceptual Abstraction," The New York Times, 27 December, p. C31
 Dietmar, Carl, Die Chronik Kölns, Kölner Stadt Anzeiger-Chronik Publications, hardbound, 600 pp., illus: "Infant Wisdom," and "To Be a Thing" in installation at Michael Werner Gallery, color
 Taeger, Alisa, "Color and Abstract Painting: Expanding the Palette," Lapis, October, illus: "Public Love," pp. 62-65
 Myers, Terry, "Jonathan Lasker at Sperone Westwater," Lapiz, November, illus: "To an Object of Love," color, p. 67
1992Johnson, Ken, "Jonathan Lasker at Sperone Westwater," Art in America, January, illus: "To an Object of Love," color, pp. 111-112
 Smith, Roberta, "Abstraction: A Trend That May Be Coming Back," The New York Times, 10 January, p. C28
 Rosenberg, Barry, and Peter Halley, The City Influence, catalogue essays for exhibition at Dayton Art Institute, unpaginated, illus: "Love's Rhetoric," "Notes From A Wooden Computer," "Rustic Psyche," "To an Object of Love," "The History of the Boudoir," color
 Feldman, Melissa, Jonathan Lasker, Paintings, 1985-1991, catalogue essay for solo exhibition at I.C.A., unpaginated, illus: "The Meaning of Pleasure," "Improved Expressions, " The Sublimation of Love," "The Realm of the Quaint," "Landscape with Blob," color
 Sozanski, Edward, "Jonathan Lasker at I.C.A.," Philadelphia Inquirer, 2 February, pp. K1, K5
 MacAdam, Barbara A., "La Metafisica della Luce at John Good," Artnews, February, pp. 128-129
 Gardner, Paul, "Do Titles Really Matter?" Artnews, February, illus: "Euphoric Routines," color, p. 97
 Mullinax, Gary, "Jonathan Lasker at I.C.A.," Willmington Journal, 2 February, illus: "Improved Expressions," b/w
 Welish, Marjorie, "Abstraction, Advocacy of," Tema Celeste, January-March, illus: "Arcadian Sections," "Rustic Psyche," color, pp. 74-79
 Carrier, David, "Afterlight: Exhibiting Abstract Painting in the Era of its Belatedness," Arts Magazine, March, pp. 60-61
 Madoff, Steven Henry, "A New Lost Generation," Artnews, April, illus: "The Division of Happiness," color, pp. 72-77
 Mahoney, Robert, "Review of Stubborn Painting," Arts Magazine, April, pp. 90-91
 Cameron, Dan, "Crtical Edge: The Outlaw Academy," Art & Auction, May, pp. 96, 98
 Liebmann, Lisa, "Documenting Documenta," Interview, June, pp. 44, 46, 48, 50
 Sandqvist, Gertrud, "Documenta Satter Reglerna Ur Spel," Svenska Dagbladet, 21 June, p.13
 Kimmelman, Michael, "At Documenta It's Survival of the Loudest," The New York Times, 5 July, p. 27
 Levin, Kim, "Jan Who? Docu What?," Village Voice, 14 July, pp. 95-96
 Murphy, Mary, "Consciousness in the Abstract," New Art Examiner, Summer, illus: "Rustic Psyche," b/w 16-20, pp. 16-20
 Collins & Milazzo, Theoretically Yours, catalogue essay for exhibition at Museo Regione Autonoma della Valle d'Aosta, 224 pp., illus: "Main Event," color
 Ricke, Rolf, editor, Kinder: Macht Neues, catalogue for exhibition at Rolf Ricke Gallery, unpaginated, illus: "Love's Rhetoric," color
 Schlagheck, Irma, "Documenta IX: Riskanter Balanceakt Mit 186 Artisten," Art, June, illus: "To Believe in Food," color, pp. 26-46
 Faust, Wolfgang Max, "Die Kunst Nach Dem Tod Der Modernen Stile: Erste Hilfe Für Besucher Der Documenta 9," Art, June, illus: "The History of the Boudoir," color, pp. 48-49, 51-53
 Hoet, Jan, Denys Zacharopoulos, Bart De Baere, Pier Lugi Tazzi, et al., Documenta IX, catalogue for exhibition in Kassel, illus: "To Believe in Food," "The History of the Boudoir," color, 619 pp.
 Dagen, Philippe, "Jonathan Lasker: Tableaux Froids," Le Monde, 17 June
 Schjeldahl, Peter, "Documenta of the Dog, "Art in America, September, pp. 77, 88-97
 Ayres, Anne, "Documenta IX, "Art Issues, September-October, pp. 34-35
 Ardenne, Paul, "Jonathan Lasker at Thaddaeus Ropac," Art Press, September, illus: "Styles of Being," b/w, p. 91
 Levi, Paolo, "Giovani Informali," Capital, July, illus: "To Win at Art," color, pp. 182-184, 186
 Kunz, Martin, "U.S.A.-Blickpunkt Eastcoast," Kunstforum, no. 119, illus: "To Believe in Food," "The History of the Boudoir," color, pp. 168, 381
 Collins & Milazzo, Who's Afraid of Duchamp, Minimalism, and Passport Photography?, catalogue essay for exhibition at Annina Nosei Gallery, unillustrated, 31 pp.
 Schwarzwälder, Rosemarie, editor, Abstract Painting Between Analysis and Synthesis, catalogue for exhibition at Galerie nächst St. Stephan, paperbound, 155 pp., illus: "Theoretical Pleasure," color, "Hark," b/w
 Goetz, Stephan, American Artists in Their New York Studios: Conversations about the Creation of Contemporary Art, Daco-Verlag Guenter Blaese, hardbound, 176 pp., illus: untitled drawing, b/w
 Adcock, Craig, "Documenta IX," Tema Celeste, Autumn, pp. 84-86
 Paparoni, Demetrio, "L'Arancia e il Suo Succo, L'Astrazione Tra Realtá e Simulazione," Tema Celeste, April-June, illus: "The Cosmic Vernacular," color, p. 59
 Beatrice, Luca, "Theoretically Yours," Tema Celeste, Autumn, p. 101
 Smolik, Noemi, "Kinder Macht Neues," Artforum, December, p. 105
 Mitchell, Charles Dee, "Jonathan Lasker Epitomizes a New Wave of Abstract Painters," The Dallas Morning News, 8 December, illus: "The Happiness of Nations," color, pp. 1C, 3C
1993Collins & Milazzo, "Culturele Ontmaskering, Een Vraagesprek Met Jonathan Lasker," Metrpolis M, February, illus: "Improved Expressions," "Some Like Love," "The Happiness of Nations," color, "The Unlearning," "Painting for an Invisible Generation," "Styles of Being," "Nice N.Y.C.," b/w, pp. 20-25
 Blotkamp, Carel, "In Praise of Painting (Crisis? What Crisis?)," Huttenloecher, Lasker, Van Meerendonk, catalogue essay for solo exhibition at Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, illus: "Cosmic Self-Evidence," "Infant Wisdom," "How To Be," "Reasonable Painting," "Some Share Eternity," "The Ecstasy of Logic," "Painting for an Invisible Generation," "When Dreams Work," color, hardbound, 94 pp.
 Unauthored, The Brushstroke: Painting in the 90's, catalogue for exhibition at Ruth Bloom Gallery, illus: "Arabesque Quotations," color
 Wesseling, Janneke, "Het Spook Van De Netvlieskunst," NRC Handelsblad, 12 February, illus: "How To Be," b/w, p. 4 of cultural supplement
 Masheck, Joseph, Modernities: Art-Matters in the Present, Penn State Press, hardbound, 304 pp., illus: "Spiritual Entertainment," b/w
 Pinchbeck, Daniel, "Openings," Art & Antiques, April, illus: "Ode to Basketball,"color, p. 21
 Danto, Arthur, "Art After the End of the Art," Artforum, April, illus: "Invective Decor," color and b/w, cover, pp. 3, 62-69
 Jansen, Bert, "Witte De With Doet Persoonlijk Verslag Gevolgde Route," Het Financieele Dagblad, 6 March, illus: "How To Be," "Some Like Love," b/w, p. 13
 Jacobs, Cornee, "Hedendaagse Abstracte Schilders in Witte de With," Utrechts Nieuwsblad, 23 February, illus: "Some Like Love," b/w
 Iles, Vera, "Kunst of Geen Kunst, dat is De Vraag Niet," Elsevier, 18 February, illus: "How To Be," color, p. 94
 Welling, Dolf, "Op Zijn Hondjes Kijken in Witte de With," Rotterdams Dagblad, 16 February
 Suetoe, Wilma, "Is De Schilderkunst Uuitgetput En Voorbij?," De Volkskrant, 18 February
 Wiens, Ann, "On View: Jonathan Lasker at Rhona Hoffman Gallery, " New Art Examiner, May, illus: "Selective Identity," b/w, pp. 36-37
 Hoenjet, Frank, "Huettenloecher, Lasker and Van Merendonk," Forum International, May-August, p. 132
 Crone, Rainer, and David Moos, Jonathan Lasker, Telling the Tales of Painting: About Abstraction at the End of the Millenium, Edition Cantz, hardbound, 189 pp., illus: 60 oil studies, color
 Paparoni, Demetrio, "The Self-Regulation of the System," Italy-America: Abstraction Redefined, catalogue essay for exhibition at Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, illus: "Digital Affection," color, 175 pp.
 Sonna, Birgit, "Aktuell in Münchener Gallerien: Jonathan Lasker at Bernd Klüser," Sueddeutsche Zeitung, 15 June
 Spadano, Lucia, "Interview with Demetrio Paparoni," Segno, Summer, p. 36
 Schwarz, Arturo, "Una Mostra Da Non Perdere," Segno, Summer, pp. 37-39
 Carrier, David, "Italia/America, L'Astrazione Ridefinita," Segno, Summer, illus: "Digital Affection," color, p. 35
 Neri, Louise, editor, "Cherchez la femme Peintre (an Inquiry)," Parkett, no. 37, p. 143
 Larson, Kay, "Jonathan Lasker at Sperone Westwater," New York Magazine , 11 October, p. 82
 Plagens, Peter, "The Soho Scene Lights Up: Jonathan Lasker at Sperone Westwater," Newsweek, 11 October, illus: "The Value of Pictures," color, p. 58
 Liebman, Lisa, "Art: Cool Kid. Jonathan Lasker at Sperone Westwater," The New Yorker, 18 October, p. 20
 Joyner, Will, "Is It Art? Just Ask Any Child," The New York Times, 12 November, pp. C1, C6
 Rainwater, Robert, The American Livre De Paintre, catalogue essay for exhibition at the Grolier Club, illus: drawing for "Not a First," b/w, p. 26
 Hixson, Kathryn, "Jonathan Lasker at Rhona Hoffman Gallery," Forum International, October-November, illus: "Natural Order", b/w, p. 135
 Kuspit, Donald, "Jonathan Lasker at Sperone Westwater," Artforum, December, illus: "Reverse Society," b/w, p. 80
 Cameron, Dan, Book Review of "Jonathan Lasker: Telling the Tales of Painting," Artforum, December, p. 73
 Welish, Marjorie, Arthur Danto, and Rainer Crone, New York Painters, catalogue essays for exhibition at Sammlung Goetz, illus: "Inlet," "The Trophies," "Cave Painting," "Standards of Expression," "Infant Wisdom," b/w, "Cosmic Self-Evidence," "Invective Decor," twelve untitled studies, color, 73 pp.
 Trimarco, Angelo, "Italia/America, L'Astrazione Ridefinita," Tema Celeste, Autumn, illus: "Digital Affection," color, pp. 68-69
1994Searle, Adrian, Unbound: Possibilities in Painting, catalogue essay for exhibition at Hayward Gallery, illus: "Public Love," "Natural Order," "Reverse Society," "Styles of Being," color, cover, pp. 66-71
 Cork, Richard, "Painting is Back in the Picture," The London Times, 8 March, illus: "Public Love," b/w, p. 35
 Lillington, David, "Zeitgeist," Time Out, 9-16 March, p. 2
 Graham-Dixon, Andrew, "Sort of, Almost, In a Way, Nearly," The Independent, 15 March, p. 15
 Januszczak, Waldemar, "A State of Confusion," The London Times, 13 March, illus: "Styles of Being," color, pp. 28-29
 Packer, William, "Unbound: Possibilities in Painting," Financial Times, 15 March
 Briet, Philippe, Le Temps D'Un Dessin, catalogue poem for exhibition at École Des Beaux Arts De L'Orient, unpaginated, illus: untitled drawing, b/w
 Bonami, Francesco, "Jonathan Lasker: Meaning Can Happen," Flash Art, May-June, illus: "The Value of Pictures," "Natural Order," "The Outsides Are In," color, pp. 94-95
 Milner, Catherine, "A Brighter Picture," London Times Magazine, 29 January, illus: "Public Love," color
 Batchelor, David, "Behind a Painted Smile: Unbound at the Hayward Gallery", Frieze, May, illus: "Public Love", b/w, pp. 18-21
 McKay, Ian, "Back to Basics," The Sunday Times, 23 March
 Carrier, David, The Aesthete in the City: The Philosophy and Practice of America Abstract Painting in the 1980's, Penn State Press, hardbound, 290 pp., illus: "Ascension," "Nature Study," "Strawberry Fields," b/w
 Monteil, Anne Marie, "Wenn Ungleiches Den Diskurs Versucht: Jonathan Lasker in der Galerie Buchmann," Basler Zeitung, 14 June, illus: "How to Be Unique," color
 Paparoni, Demetrio, L'Astrazione Ridefinita, Tema Celeste Editions, paperbound, 112 pp., illus: "Rustic Psyche," "Digital Affection," color
 Plagens, Peter, "Crisis in the Contemporary," Art & Auction, June, pp. 76-78, 113
 Cameron, Dan, "Crisis in the Contemporary: A Response," Art & Auction, June, pp. 79, 113
 Archer, Michael, "Unbound," Art & Text, May, illus: "Public Love," b/w, p. 85
 Godfrey, Tony, Chance, Choice and Irony, catalogue essay and interviews for exhibition at Todd and John Hansard Galleries, illus: "The Politics of Reality," color, p. 72
 Dannatt, Adrain, "Painting by Numbers,Three Painting Shows," Flash Art, Summer, pp. 120-121
 Anonymous, The Assertive Image, catalogue essay for exhibition at Armand Hammer Museum of Art, illus: "Contemporary Tribalism," color, p. 11
 Kildahl, Merete, "Malerei, Kropp Og Rom," Moss Dagblad, 3 June, p. 28
 Stafne, Anne Lise, "Kropp Rom-Og Dialog," Aftenposten, June 5
 Blom, Ina, "Maleriet Som Sted Pa F15," Aftenposten, 17 June, illus: "Life Can Be Beautiful," b/w
 Sandberg, Lotte, "Maleriet Lever Pa Jeloy," Dagbladet, 20 June
 Lillington, David, "Unbound," Metropolis M, June, illus: "The Pride of Being," color, pp. 52-53
 Birnbaum, Daniel, "Jonathan Lasker at Lars Bohman," Dagens Nyheter, 16 September, illus: "Real Imaginary," color, p. B3
 Saltz, Jerry, "A Year in the Life: Tropic of Painting," Art in America, October, illus: "Terms of Reality," color, pp. 100-101
 Ocvirk, Otto, Robert Stinson, et al., Art Fundamentals, hardbound, 336 pp., W.C.S. Brown & Benchmark Press, illus: "The Division of Happiness," color
 Ostrow, Saul, Jonathan Lasker: A Pre-Fab View, catalogue essay for solo exhibition at Bravin Post Lee, 36 pp., illus: "Heath," "The View from Home Plate," "5 of Sapdes," "Land O'Goshen," "Crystal Falls," "Sceptre," "Greek," "An Intrusion of Dawn," "Pre-Fab View," "Procession," "Heart in a Whirl," "Lemon Smash," color
 Van Den Heeg, Eric, "Interview with Jonathan Lasker," Material, October, illus: "Reverse Society," b/w
 Rosenthal, Mark, "Critiques of Pure Abstraction: Jonathan Lasker," Atelier, July, illus.: "Born Yesterday," "The Happiness of Cannibals," color, cover, p. 98
 Francis, Mary Ann, "Chance, Choice and Irony," Untitled, Summer, p. 23
 Unauthored, American Painting Now, catalogue for exhibition at Galleries Fossati, Menzio and Rimoldi, illus.: "The Politics of Reality," untitled oil study, color
 Soave, Lorenzo Pittore, Tutti Questi Mondi, catalogue for exhibition at Galleria Carini, illus.: "How To Be," color
 Schjeldahl, Peter, and W. Jackson Rushing, Abstraction: A Tradition of Collecting in Miami, catalogue essays for exhibition at the Center for Fine Arts
1995Bankowsky, Jack, "Talk with Klaus Kertess: The Art of the Matter, Curating the Whitney Biennial," Artforum, January, pp. 71-104
 Shaw, Brittain, "Critiques of Pure Abstraction: Blaffer Exhibit Puts Abstraction in Modern Light," Houston Chronicle, 28 January, pp. 1-4
 James, Eric, "Critiques of Pure Abstraction: Blaffer Gallery Goes Abstract," Houston Daily Cougar, 1 February
 Ayerza, Josephina, Editor, "Written, Spoken, Drawn in Lacanian Ink," Lacanian Ink, Winter, illus: untitled drawing, b/w, p. 95
 Schjeldahl, Peter, "On a Lasker," Jonathan Lasker, catalogue essay for solo exhibition at Soledad Lorenzo Gallery, 38 pp., illus: "The Divergence of Truth and Beauty," "Articulate Ecstasy," "Natural Order," "Expression of an Uncertain Universe," "Interpretive Painting," "The Consciousness of Animals," five untitled oil studies, color
 Danvila, Jose Ramon, "Jonathan Lasker at Soledad Lorenzo: Tecnica Directa, Directa Pintura," El Punto de las Artes, 3-9 February, illus: "The Consciousness of Animals," b/w
 Florez, Fernando Castro, "Jonathan Lasker at Soledad Lorenzo Gallery: Una Pintura en Busca de Divergencias," Diario 16, 3 February, illus: "The Divergence of Truth and Beauty," b/w
 Arkio, Tuula, and Maaretta Jaukkuuri, Ars 95 Helsinki, catalogue essays for exhibition at Museum of Contemporary Art, illus: "Reverse Society," color, pp. 72-73
 Ericsson, Lars O., "Ars '95: Valrdskonsten Till Helsingfors," Dagens Nyheter, 17 February, p. B3
 Fechner-Smarsly, Thomas, "Ars '95: Standort Bestimmung in Helsinki," Neue Bildende Kunst, February, pp. 42-45
 Fechner-Smarsly, Thomas, "Ars '95: Periphere und Perfide Idyllen,"Frankfurter Rundschau, p. 7
 Rosenthal, Mark, Critiques of Pure Abstraction, catalogue essay for traveling exhibition, unpaginated, illus: "The Happiness of Cannibals," color
 Schiche, Ericka, "Critiques of Pure Abstraction: Abstract Divorce," Public News, 22 February, p. C12
 Jimènez, Pablo, "Jonathan Lasker at Soledad Lorenzo Gallery: Esplendores De La Pintura," ABC Cultural, 24 February, illus: "The Consciousness of Animals," b/w
 Serraller, Francisco Calvo, " Jonathan Lasker at Soledad Lorenzo Gallery: Pintar en frio," El Pais, 25 February, illus: "The Divergence of Truth and Beauty," b/w
 Melrod, George, "Openings: Exploring Nature and Line as Metaphor," Art & Antiques, February, illus: "The Happiness of Nations," color, pp. 29-30
 Schels, Evelyn, "Heiter in den Untergang," Elle (German Edition), February, illus: "The Outsiders Are In," "Moral Fantasia," "The Value of Pictures," color, pp. 84-88
 Danto, Arthur, H. Ashley Kistler, et al., Repicturing Abstraction, catalogue essays for exhibition at Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, illus.: "mantra to a Distracted God," color, pp. 46-47
 Dreher, Thomas, "Antiquiertheit Der Malerei?," Pittura Immedia, catalogue essay for exhibition at Kunstlerhaus Graz, illus: "The Politics of Reality," b/w, pp. 27-35 
 Goldberger, Paul, "The Art of His Choosing: Klaus Kertess Curates the 1995 Whitney Biennial," The New York Times Magazine, 26 February, pp. 30-38
 Pagel, David, "Jonathan Lasker at L.A. Louver: Lasker's Own Purposeful Purposelesslness," Los Angeles Times, 2 March, p. F4
 Rubinstein, Raphael, "Counter Resolution: Jonathan Lasker Approach to Abstraction" Art in America, April, illus: "Hermeneutic Picture," "5 of Spades," "The Realm of the Quaint," "Interpretative Painting," "Expressions of an Uncertain Universe," "Articulate Ecstasy," color, pp.84-89
 Freedman, Lynn, editor, Independent Curators Incorporated, producer, Critiques of Pure Abstraction, introductory videotape accompanying touring exhibition
 Olmo, Santiago B., "Color y Forma, Orden y Caos-Entrevista con Jonathan Lasker," Lapis, April, illus: "Expressions of an Uncertain Universe," "The View from Home Plate," "Lemon Smash," "Pre-Fab View," "The Consciousness of Animals," "Articulate Ecstasy," "Heart in a Whirl," "Natural Order," two untitled oil studies, color, pp. 56-63
 Risatti, Howard, "On View: Repicturing Abstraction," New Art Examiner, April, illus: "Mantra to a Distracted God," b/w, pp. 32-33, 57
 Valjakka, Timo, "Letter from Helsinki: Art to Finnish," Artforum, May, pp. 27-28
 Berger, John, et al., Das Abenteuer Der Malerei, catalogue essays for exhibition at Kunstverein Rheinland-Westfalen and Württembergischer Kunstverein, illus: "The Kissed and the Missed, "Moral Highlights," "Articulate Ecstasy," color, pp. 165-167
 Moos, David, and Philip David Zelazo, Architecture of the Mind, catalogue essays for exhibition at Barbara Farber Gallery, unpaginated, illus: study for "The Eternal Silence of Infinite Space," color
 Van De Velde, Paola, "Architecture of the Mind," Courant Nieuws, 25 April
 Gayer, John, "Ars 95 at Helsinki," C Magazine, Summer, pp. 35-36
 Ostrow, Saul, "Un Ensemble Fragmenté: La Peinture Abstraite Après le Modernisme," Art Press, no. 16, illus: "5 of Spades," "Scotties's Wasteland," "Lemon Smash," color, p. 158
 Stolz, George, "Jonathan Lasker at Soledad Lorenzo," Artnews, September, illus: "The Divergence of Truth and Beauty," b/w, p. 160
 Finckh, Gerhard, and Ralf Dank, Positionen-Beobachtungen zum Stand der Malerei in den 90er Jahren, catalogue essays for exhibition at Folkwang Museum, illus: "Infant Wisdom," "Standards of Expression," "Invective Décor," "How to Be Unique," "Artistic Painting," five untitled oil studies on paper, color, pp. 39-49
 Kaeppelin, Olivier, "Jonathan Lasker: Public Love," Morceaux Choisis, catalogue essay for exhibition of new F.N.A.C. acquisitions at Centre National d'Art Conteporain, Grenoble, illus: "Public Love," b/w, pp. 119-120
 Basualdo, Carlos, and Virginia Perez-Ratton, Mesotica, catalogue essays for exhibition at Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporaneo, San José, Costa Rica, illus: "Permanent Expressions," color, p. 41
 Krause, Manfred, "Meilensteine Im Labyrinth Der Malerei," Westdeutsche Allgemeine, 23 June, illus: "Infant Wisdom," "Artistic Painting," b/w
 Wintzenburg, Ludwig, "Kunst Positionen Der Beliebigkeit," Neue Ruhr Zeitung, 23 June
 Luddemann, Stefan, "Malen Als Kühle Artistik," Neue Osnabrucker Zeitung, 27 June, illus: "Artistic Painting," b/w
 Krause, Manfred, "Totgesagte Leben Länger," Westdeutsche Allgemeine, 4 July, illus: "Artistic Painting," b/w
 Kampmann, Matthias, "An Der Grenze Des Mediums," Westfalischer Anzeiger, 5 July, illus: "Artistic Painting," b/w, p. 6
 Willems, Sophia, "Vom Mehrwert Der Malerei Heute," Westdeutsche Zeitung, 12 July
 Struck, Kristina, "Beobachtungen Zur Malerei," Evangelische Wochenzeitung für Das Rheinland, 16 July
 Müller, Sabine, "Positionen In Der Malerei In Den 90er Jahren," Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, 20 July
 Jäger, Frans Den Hartog, "Zoeken Naar Waar Verf En Illusie Elkaar Raken," NRC Handelsblad, 21 July
 Shah, Anita, "Der Maler Und Sein Double," Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 25 July
 Wolgamott, L. Kent, "Critiques of Pure Abstraction at Sheldon Museum," Lincoln Journal Star, 26 November, p. 13H
1996Paparoni, Demetrio, "Conversation with Jonathan Lasker," Tema Celeste, Spring, illus: one untitled drawing, "The Eternal Silence of Infinite Space," "Swank Sadness," "Winter Abstraction," color, pp. 48-51
 Knight, Christopher, "Critiques of Pure Abstraction: Curatorial Concept in Search of an Enemy," Los Angeles Times, 11 February
 Milazzo, Richard, "L'indifferenziata e inumana ultima cosa," Tema Celeste, Spring, p. 35
 Milazzo, Richard, Joey T. Lamb and R.T. Vullo, "According to What: A Column about Art and the Kitchen Sink," Artnet, 16 March, illus: "The Eternal Silence of Infnite Space," "Moral Fantasia," "When Trees Become Flowers," "Nearly Soul," color
 Servetar, Stuart, "Jonathan Lasker at Sperone Westwater, " New York Press, 10-16 April, p. 89
 Karmel, Pepe, "Jonathan Lasker at Sperone Westwater, " New York Times, 19 April, p. C22
 Unauthored, "Jonathan Lasker at Sperone Westwater," The New Yorker, 22 April
 Juncosa, Enrique, Arthur Danto, and Demetrio Paparoni, Nuevas Abstracciones, catalogue essays for exhibition at Reina Sofia, 175 pp., illus: "Reverse Society," "Public Love," "To Believe in Food," color
 Benjamin, Andrew, What is Abstraction?, Academy Editions, paperbound, 64 pp., illus: "Expressions of an Uncertain Universe," "Infant Wisdom," "Natural Order"
 Briand-Picard, Claude, Christophe Cuzin, Antoine Perrot, "Interview with Jonathan Lasker," Peindre?, Positions Press, paperbound, pp. 156
 Rivero, Tahia, Ruth Auerbach, Maria Luz Cardenas, Raphael Rubinstein, Fernando Castro Florez & artists' statements, Transatlantica, The America Non Representiva, catalogue essays for exhibition at Museo Alejandro Otero, illus: "Libidinous Prehistory," color, pp. 60-61
 Le Thorel-Daviot, Pascale, Petit Dictionnaire des Artistes Contemporains, Bordas Press, paperbound, 287 pp., illus: "The Ecstasy of Logic," color
 Unauthored, Jonathan Lasker, catalogue for 1993 and 1996 exhibitions at Sperone Westwater, New York, illus: "Sensible Arrangement," "Winter Abstraction," "Swank Sadness," "Supplemental Reality," "When Trees Become Flowers," "Nearly Soul," "The Value of Pictures," "The Outsides Are In," "Reverse Society," "Between Theory and Reality," "The Pride of Being," "Moral Fantasia," color, unpaginated
 Greene, David A., "Screen at Friedrich Petzel Gallery," Art+Text, May, pp. 80-81
 Moos, David, Jonathan Lasker, et al., Art & Design No. 48: Painting in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, paperbound, 92 pp., illus: "The Divergence of Truth and Beauty," "The Consciousness of Animals," "Let Us Become Ultimate," "Supplemental Reality," color, frontispiece, pp. 6, 7, 10-13, 54-63
 Clowes, Jody, "Critiques of Pure Abstraction," Isthmus, 7 June
 Adams, Brooks, "The Abstract Century," Art in America, July, pp. 59-60
 Wiese, Heidi, "Schnönheit ist Wieder Eraubt: 'Abstrakte Malerei Heute'," Westfälen-Blatt, 26 July
 Stiftel, Ralf, "Die Schönheit Kehrt Zurück: Die Kunsthalle Bielefeld," Westfälischer Anzeiger, 26 July, illus: "To Believe in Food," b/w
 Lüddemann, Stefan, "Kühle Bildstrategien: Abstrakte Malerei Heite," Neue Osnabrüker Zeitung, 27 July, illus: "Public Love," b/w
 Strecker, Manfred, "Unbeschweert Malen: 'Abstrakte Malerei Heute'," Neue Westfälische Zeitung, 27 July
 Stachelhaus, Heiner, "Die Malerei ist Tot-Es Lebe die Malerei: Bielefeld Zeigt die 'Neuen Abstrakten'," Neue Ruhr Zeitung, 31 July
 Osborne, Lawrence, Peter Astrom, The New York Scene 1996, catalogue essays for exihibition at Gotland Konstmuseum, illus: "Symmetrical Diversion," color, p. 10
 Unauthored, "Abstrakte Malerei Heute-Neuvas Abstracciones," Bielefeld der Spiegel, 1 August, illus: "To Believe in Food," b/w, p. 20
 Thiede, Veit-Mario, "Alles ist Möglich: Abstrakte Malerei Heute," Main Echo, 2 August
 Müller, Michael-Georg, "Geschüttelte Farben und Grosse Formate: 'Abstrakte Malerei Heute'," Neue Westfälische Rundschau, 2 August
 Zimmer, Klaus, "Das Erlebnis der Form ist den Künstlern Wichtig: Künsthalle Bielefeld Zeigt 'Abstrakte Malerei Heute'," Cellesche Zeitung, 6 August
 Thiede, Veit-Mario, "An Rosa Schokolade Glauben: Eine Ausstellung in Bielefeld," Trierischer Volksfreund, 10-11 August
 Unauthored, "Die Malerei der Unbegrenzten Mölichkeiten," Aktuelle Kunst, illus: "Public Love," "To Believe in Food," b/w
 Moszynska, Anna, "New York Round-Up," Untitled, Summer, p. 8
 Moos, David, Donna De Salvo, Forces of the Fifties, catalogue essays for exhibition at Wexner Center, illus: "Expressions of an Uncertain Universe," b/w, p. 35
 Burgi, Bernhard, Playpen & Corpus delirium, catalogue essay for exhibition at Kunsthalle Zürich, illus: "Rural Geometry," b/w, pp. 42-43
 Godfrey, Tony, Melissa Larner, et al., The 20th Century Artbook, Phaidon Press, hardbound, 512 pp., illus: "Public Love," color
 Mitchell, W. J. T., R. Feinstein, S. Kaneda, C. Van Schoonbeck, Re: Fab, catalogue essays for exhibition at University of South Florida, illus: "Chimerical Seasons," "Medium Exaltation," color, pp. 18, 20
 Paparoni, Demetrio, "L'astrazione Ridefinita," Tema Celeste, Autumn, illus: "Rustic Psyche," "Digital Affection," color, pp. 38-39
 Danto, Arthur, "The Pure, The Impure and The Non-Pure," Tema Celeste, Autumn, illus: "To Believe in Food," "Public Love," color, p. 52
 Kellein, Thomas, Hans-Michael Herzog, A. Danto, E. Juncosa, Abstrakte Malerei Heute-Nuevas Abstracciones, catalogue essays for exhibition at Kunsthalle Bielefeld, illus.: "To Believe in Food," "Public Love," color, pp. 22-23
 Watkin, Mel, Martin Ball, Reconditioned Abstraction, catalogue essays for exhibition at Forum for Contemporary Art, St. Louis, 20 pp., illus: "Permanent expressions," b/w, "Selective Identity," color
 Silva, Eddie, "Reconditioned Abstraction: The Irony Curtain," Riverfront Times, 27 November-3 December, p. 1
 Duffy, Robert W., "Reconditioned Abstraction: It's Abstract All Right," St. Louis Post Dispatch, 1 December
1997De Chassey, Eric, Camille Morineau, Abstraction/Abstractions: Géometries Provisoires, catalogue essays for exhibition at Musée d'Art Moderne, 224 pp., illus: "Animal Progress," "Second Nature," "When Trees Become Flowers," "The Kissed and the Missed," color
 Polsky, Richard, Art Market Guide: Contemporary American Art, The Marlit Press, paperbound, 250 pp.
 Rubinstein, Rapahel, Peintures Croisées, L'Harmattan Press, paperbound, 186 pp., illus: "Expressions of an Uncertain Universe," b/w
 Paparoni, Demetrio, "Jonathan Lasker," Il Corpo Parlante dell'Arte, Castelvecchi, Rome, Italy, paperbound, illus: "The Picture of Discretion," color, pp. 100-108
 Paparoni, Demetrio, "L'astrazione ridefinita: verso il terzo millennio," Il Corpo Vedente dell'Arte Castelvecchi, Rome, Italy, paperbound, illus: "Little Fatty," color, pp. 48-61
 Domino, Christophe, "Abstraction/Abstractions: L'Abstraction Derrière La Grille," Beaux-Arts, February, illus: "When Trees Become Flowers," color, p. 26
 Protzman, Ferdinand, "Pushing the Envelope & Drawing on It: NY on Paper," The Washington Post, 1 March, illus: untitled drawing, b/w, p. C2
 Archer, Michael, Art Since 1960, Thames & Hudson, paperbound, 224 pp.
 Georgia, Olivia, Lilli Wei, After the Fall: Aspects of Abstract Painting Since 1970, Vol. 1, catalogue for group exhibition at Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, 191 pp., illus: "Beat the System," color
 Georgia, Olivia, David Carrier, Peggy Cyphers et al., After the Fall: Aspects of Abstract Painting Since 1970, Vol. 2, catalogue of responses to exhibition at Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, 59 pp.
 Buci-Glucksman, Christine, "Vers Une Post-Abstraction," Rue Descartes 16, April, pp. 54-62
 Rubinstein, Raphael, "Le Sens Plastique de la Peinture," Rue Descartes 16, April, pp. 67-71
 Millet, Catherine, "Geometries Provisoires," Art Press, April, illus: "When Trees Become Flowers," b/w, pp. 80-82
 Cotter, Holland, "An Era Still Driven To Abstraction: Review of 'After the Fall: Turning the Corner'," New York Times, 11 April, p. C24
 Danto, Arthur C., Demetrio Paparoni, and Mario Perniola, "Style, Narrative and Post-History-A Conversation," Tema Celeste, May-June, pp. 40-47, 106-110
 Rey, Stephane, "Jonathan Lasker at Velge et Noirhomme," L'Echo, 6 June
 Rollin, Pierre-Olivier, "La Peinture Selon Jonathan Lasker: Galerie Velge et Noirhomme," Le Vif/L'Epress: Weekend, 13 June, illus: 1997 untitled oil study on paper, color, p. 53
 Popelier, Bert, "De oppervlakten van Lasker: Jonathan Lasker at Velge Noirhomme," Tijd Cultuur, 16 June
 Paparoni, Demetrio, "Ein Neues Verstaendnis von Abstraktion," Noema, June-July, pp. 42-47
 De Chassey, Eric, "Jonathan Lasker at Thaddaeus Ropac: L'Abstrait Hybride," L'Oeil, July/August, illus: "For the Eye of the Beautiful beholder," color, p. 15
 Patrick, Keith, "Editorial," Contemporary Visual Arts, #15, Summer, pp. 13-15
 Moszynska, Anna, Peter Schjeldahl, et al., The Age of Modernism: Art in the Twentieth Century, Hatje Verlag, hardbound, illus: "Artistic Painting," b/w, p. 217
 Dynes, Wayne R., Turning the Corner: Abstraction at the End of the Twentieth Century, catalogue essay for exhibition at Hunter College, New York, illus: untitled study, b/w
 Gourvil, Olivier, Eric de Chassey, Jonathan Lasker, Raphael Rubinstein, et al., Tableau Territoires Actuels, École Régionale Des Beaux-Arts de Valence, paperbound, 93 pp. illus: "When Trees Become Flowers," "Sensible Arrangement," "Live Life Live," b/w
 Schwabsky, Barry, The Widening Circle: Consequences of Modernism in Contemporary Art, Cambridge University Press, paperbound, 230 pp.
 Buci-Glucksman, Christine, "Une Abstraction Impure: de Marcel Duchamp à la Cartographie," Trans #4, pp. 122-130
 Ostrow, Saul, Essential Gestures, catalogue essay for exhibition at Johnson County Community College Gallery of Art, unpaginated, illus: "Stable Aberrance," color
 Slesin, Suzanne, "Frame Work," Hose and Garden, September, illus: "The Picture of Discretion," color, p. 213
 Springenschmid, Ingo, Licht Raum . . . Schwarz, catalogue essay for exhibition at Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn und Taxis, illus: installation view of "Inlet," "The Trophies," "Invective Décor," color
 Muller, Brian, "Abstraction/Abstractions: Géometries Provisoires," Flash Art, October, p. 77
 Schmidt, Jürgen, "Aus der Not Eine Tugend Gemacht," Westfalen-Blatt, 28 November, illus: "The Eternal Silence of Infinite Space," b/w
 Morisse, Wolfgang, "Jonathan Lasker in der Kunsthalle: Farbig, Festlich und Humorvoll," Die Glocke, 28 November
 Britsch, Eckkhard, "Jonathan Lasker at Kunsthalle Bielefeld: Malerei von Eingefrorener Spontaneitat," Neue Westfälische Zeitung, 29 November, illus: "For the Eye of the Beautiful Beholder," color
 Thorson, Alice, "New Realities of Abstraction at Johnson County Community College," The Kansas City Star, 30 November, pp. L1, L7
 Unauthored, "Jonathan Lasker Gemälde 1977-1997," Live, 1 December, illus: "Love's Rhetoric," color
 Unauthored, "Jonathan Lasker: Abstrakt & Heftig," Tips, 1 December, illus: "Love's Rhetoric," color
 Schmidt, Jürgen, "Jonathan Lasker in der Kunsthalle: Weg Aus der Sackgasse Gefunden," Westfalen-Blatt, 1 December, illus: "For the Eye of the Beautiful Beholder," b/w
 Unauthored, "Jonathan Lasker: Gemälde 1977 Bis 1997," Bielefelder Spiegel, 1 December
 App, Volkhard, Redaktion Kulturspiegel, 3 December, nine-minute radio broadcast on NDR1
 Wallmann, Jürgen P., "Mosaik," Mittwoch, 3 December, one-hour radio broadcast on WDR3, Cologne, Germany
 Lingemann, Susanne, "Mit Bass, Schlagzeug und Gitarre," Art, December, illus: "It's A Free Country," "Nearly Soul," "Today's Universe," "Simple Painting," "5 of Spades," color, pp. 88-91
 Hindry, Ann, "Interview with Jonathan Lasker: Painting, Impersonality, Critique," Art Press, December, illus: "Believe in Everything," "Why People Are Nice," "A Fine Day in the Wrong Universe," "The Art of Good Appearance," "Psychic Governance," color, pp. 20-25
 Fischer, Jim, "New Art on Display at Johnson County Community College: Essential Gesture," The Campus Ledger, 4 December, p. 4B
 Lettmann, Achim, "Die Linie Wird Zur Fläche: Die Bielefelder Kunsthalle Zeigt Jonathan Laskers Abstrakte Malerei," Westfälischer Anzeiger, 4 December, illus: "Formidable Embodiment," b/w
 Kreis, Elfi, "Jonathan Lasker at Kienzle & Gmeiner: Am Anfang der Endlosschleife," Der Tagesspiegel, 6 December, illus: "That It May End," b/w, p. 28
 Hoffmans, Christiane, "Jonathan Laskers Erste Deutsche Einzel-Austellung: Kunsthalle, Bielefeld," Die Welt am Sonntag, 7 December, illus: "To Belive in Food," b/w
 Imdahl, Georg, "Ein Gefühlsausbruch findet nicht statt," Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 12 December, illus: "Confessions of a Groundhog Fancier," b/w, p. 44
 Unauthored, "Bielefeld: Ölgemalde die Schockieren," Prisma, 13 December, illus: "Popular Psyche," color
1998Daniel, Jeff, "Reality and Abstraction: Blurring the Lines," St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 18 January, p. D4
 Van de Velde, Paola, "Groot Overzicht Jonathan Lasker in Stedelijk," De Telegraaf, 11 February, illus: "Simple Painting," b/w, p. T13
 Thorson, Alice, "Art to Art Talk with David Moos," The Kansas City Star, 12 February, p. F6 
 Schumacher, Rogier, "Goede Schilderkunst is Altijd Conceptueel: Jonathan Lasker at the Stedelijk Museum," Het Patrool, 17 February, illus: "Nature Study," b/w
 Wesseling, Janneke, "Overzicht Van Abstracte Schiderijen in Het Stedelijk Museum: Lasker Worstelt Met de Gordijnen," NRC Handelsblad, 25 February, illus: "It's A Free Country," b/w
 Van Beek, Willem, "Jonathan Lasker: Eerste Solo-Tentoonstelling in Ons Land," Kunstbeeld, March, illus: "Illinois," "5 of Spades," "Sensible Arrangement," color, pp. 22-24
 Süto, Wilma, "Lasker Blaast de Schilderkunst Brutaal Nieuw Leven in: Jonathan Lasker at the Stedelijk Museum," Volkskrant, 2 March, illus: "Public Love," b/w
 Lütticken, Sven, "Culturele Promiscuïteit: Jonathan Lasker, Het Sacrale en Het Banale," De Witte Raaf, March/April, illus: "How To Be," "The Ecstasy of Logic," b/w, pp. 22-23
 Dank, Ralf, "Kompromisslose Kunst," St. Gallen Nachrichten, 23 April, p. 45
 Unauthored, "Preview: Traveling Exhibitions," Artforum, May, p. 63
 "Kunstmuseum: Jonathan Lasker," Terzett, May, illus. "Today's Universe", "To Believe in Food," b/w, p. 13
 "Malerei ist meine Sprache," St. Gallen Tagblatt, 2 May, p. 14Kultur
 Mack, Gerhard, "Sprachnot und Perfektion," Kultur, 4 May, p. 11
 "Paintings 1977 bis 1997," Anzeiger, 5 May
 Schaufelberger, Peter E., "Kunst aus dem Selbstbedienungsladen," Südkurier, 7 May
 Mack, Gerhard, "Malen nach dem Zufallsprinzip," Extra, 8 Mai, p. 69
 Mack, Gerhard, "Jonathan Lasker im Kunstmuseum," Kunst-Bulletin, June, illus. "Today's Universe," color, p. 43
 "Nonchalance im Steinbruch der Moderne," Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 5 June, p. 46
 Kliner, Dion, "After the Disasteroid," Flash Art, Summer, illus. "They Do Not Exclude," color, p. 113
 Buci-Glucksman, Christine, "Vers une Post-Abstraction," Parachute, July-August-September, illus: "Assertive Existence," b/w, p. 47
 Unauthored, "Sperone Westwater: Summer Group Exhibition," New York Contemporary Art Report, June, illus: "Exclusive Existence," color, p. 81
 Kaeppelin, Olivier, Michel Bulteau, Jonathan Lasker, essays and interview for solo exhibition at the ART C. association art contemporain, Ville d'Issoire, paperbound, 88 pp., illus: 30 paitings, color
 Arnold, Genevieve, Connections and Contradictions: Modern and Contemporary Art from Atlanta Collections, catalogue for exhibition at the Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University, illus: "The Aesthetics of Argument," b/w, p. 6
 Gilbert, David, "Interior Design's Guide to Fall in New York," Interior Design, September, illus: "Lives of Perpetual Wonder," color, p. 56
 Bourbon, Matthew, "Sperone Westwater," New York Arts Magazine, 25 October, illus.: "Lives of Pepetual Wonder," b/w, p. 47
 Hinson, Tom E., Cleveland Collects Contemporary Art, catalogue for exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, 1998, paperback, illus: "False Transcendence," color, p.117
 Power, Kevin, Jonathan Lasker, essay for solo exhibition at Soledad Lorenzo Gallery, paperbound, 43 pp., illus: "Precise Love," "Modern Weeping," "If Pebbles Were Boulders," "A History of Common Moments," "Things Have Reason," " Were 8 On This Side," "Competitive Exclusion," color, pp. 16-28, four untitled drawings, b/w, pp. 26-27
 Polzer, Brita, "Kunst: Avantgarde-Mode/Kinder-museum/Jonathan Lasker," Mirabelle, no. 11 [November?], p. 10
1999Jones, Alan, "Giuseppe Capogrossi," Tema Celeste, January-February 1999, illus.: "Between Theory and Reality," p. 86
 Auping, Michael, David Moos, Jonathan Lasker: Selective Identity Paintings from the 1990's, catalogue essays for solo retrospective exhibition at The Forum for Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO; The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada; Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, MA; Birmingham Museum of Art, AL, published by Birmingham Museum of Art, 103 pp., illus.: 22 paintings, 13 oil paintings, color
 Siegal, Katy, "Jonathan Lasker: Selective Identity," ArtForum, Vol. XXXVIII, No. 1, September 1999, p. 40
 Bois, Yve-Alain, Enrique Juncosa, Rosalind Krauss, et al., Abstraction, Gesture, Ecriture; paintings from the Daros Collection, Edited by Peter Fischer, 1999, Alesco AG, pp. 134-142
 Daniel, Jeff, " Osver and Lasker are contemporary companions," St. Louis Post-Dispatch, October 10, 1999, p. 6
 Silva, Eddie, "Still Life," The Riverfront Times, October 13-19, 1999, p. 56
 Zimmer, Mallarie N.,"Selective Identity," Intermission Visual Art, October 1999, p.19
 "Jonathan Lasker," The New Yorker, 8 November, 1999, p. 18
 Ebony, Dabid, " David Ebony's Top Ten; Jonathan Lasker at Sperone Westwater," Artnet.com, 27 November 1999
2000Edelman, Robert G., "Abstract New York," Artnet.com, 11 November 1999
 Thorson, Alice, "Eye of the collector," The Kansas City Star, October 1999, pp. 1-3.
 "Lasker's long reach," The Art Newspaper, Vol. X, No. 97, November 1999, p. 70
 Daniel, Jeff, "Jonathan Lasker; Forum for Contemporary Art," ARTnews, Vol. 98, no. 11, December 1999, p.176
 Moszynska, Anna,"Jackson Pollock; Revisited," contemporary visual arts, issue 22,1999, pp.46-53
 Thorson, Alice," Driven to Abstraction," The Kansas City Star, 16 January, 2000, pp. J1, J4.
 Kastner, Jeffrey, "Jonathan Lasker; Sperone Westwater," Artnews, Vol 99, No. 2, February 2000,p. 163 
 Gofrey, Tony, "Jonathan Lasker: the dialectics of touch," contemporary visual arts, issue 28,pp.22-27
 Arte Americana; Ultimo Decennio, exhibition catalogue, 2000, Museo d'Arte della
 Citta di Ravenna/Edizioni Gabriele Mazzotta, p. 79 & 80
 "Jonathan Lasker," Tema Celeste retrospective, excerpt from "Codici di gestualità, Jonathan
 Lasker," conversazione con Demetrio Paparoni, January 1990, Summer 2000, p. 151
 Schwabsky, Barry, "Jonathan Lasker," Artforum, September 2000, p. 175 
 Bonetti, David, "Gallery Watch," San Francisco Examiner, October 12, 2000, C-11
 Baker, Kenneth, "Odd Abstractions," San Francisco Chronicle, 28 October 2000, p. D2
 Gian Enzo Sperone; Torino, Roma, New York; 35 Anni di Mostra tra Europa e America, 2000, p. 370, 402-403, 456
 da Warhol al 2000, Palazzo Cavour, Regione Piemonte, exhibition catalogue, 2000, p. 73
2001Smolik, Noemi, "Stories from the Dictionary of Modernism," American Art from the Goetz
 Collection, Munich, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, The Centre of Contemporary Art, exhibition catalogue, 24 May - 2 September 2001, pp. 42-45
“Green on Greene,” exhibition catalogue, Sperone Westwater, New York, 2001.
Yablonsky, Linda, “Green on Greene,” Time Out New York, 22-29 November 2001, p. 58.
Ryan, David, “Visible Thoughts, An Interview with Jonathan Lasker,” Art Papers Magazine, September – October 2001, pp. 28-33.
2002“Paparoni, Demetrio, Lasker, Paintings 1977-2001,” Alberico Cetti Serbelloni Editore, 2002.
“Drawn From a Family,” exhibition catalogue, Colby College Museum of Art, Maine, 2002.
2003“Thick and Thin,” discussion with Lasker, Dunham, Federle, Griffin, Koether, Prietò, Relyea, Winters and Yuskavage, introduced by Robert Storr, Artforum, April 2003, pp. 174-179, 238.
Siegel, Katy, “Jonathan Lasker, Palacio Velázquez, Reina Sofia,” Artforum, May 2003, pg. 69.
“Jonathan Lasker: 1977-2003: Pinturas, Dibujos, Estudios,” exh. cat., Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, 5 June – 7 September, 2003.
PUBLICATIONS BY THE ARTIST
1981Cave Pictures. A book of drawings by Jonathan Lasker and poetry by Everett Potter. Published by the Kaldewey Press, Düsseldorf, Germany
1986Untitled essay. Effects Magazine, winter issue
 After Abstraction. Published in What It Is, catalogue for exhibition at Tony Shafrazi Gallery
1987Abstraction After Itself. Essay published in Corcoran Gallery of Art Biennial catalogue
 Falling In Lava. Essay published in Eugene Leroy, catalogue for exhibition at Musée d'Art Moderne Villeneuve d'Asco
1988Racing Form. Essay published in Journal of Contemporary Art, volume 1/number 2
1989Not A First. A book of drawings by Jonathan Lasker and poetry by John Ashbery. Published by the Kaldewey Press, Poestenkill, NY
1991Pariahs. Essay published in An Anthology of Statements: White Columns, Collins & Milazzo, Editors
1994Willelm De Kooning: Paintings for the Living. Published in Jong Holland, issue #1/94
 Beauty in the Age of Roadkill. Published in 99, Turn of the Century Magazine, fall issue
1995Plastic Made Perfect: Measuring Mondrian: New Math. Published in Artforum, September
1996Sleep and Poetry: The Consciousness of Animals. Essay published in Art & Design no. 48: Painting in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
1998Jonathan Lasker: Complete Essays, 1984-1998. Published by Edgewise Press, New York, Paris, Turin, paperbound, 62 pp.
1999Essays, 1984-1998. Essays published in Likovne Besede Artwords, no. 47-48, Mai1999, Slovenia, pp. 57-69, 86-87.
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
 Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
 Birmingham Museum of Art,Birmingham, AL
 The British Library, London, England
 Casino Luxembourg, Forum for Contemporary Art, Luxembourg
 The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
 De Peter Stuyvesant Stichting, Amsterdam
 Eli Broad Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
 Fond National d'Art Contemporain, Paris, France
 Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
 La Fondación Caja de Pensiones, Madrid
 High Museum, Atlanta, GA
 Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
 MIT-List Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge, MA
 Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
 Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Seville, Spain
 Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
 New York Public Library, New York
 Wacoal Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
 Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, KS

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