B. 1955
Lives and works in Chicago, IL
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND COOPERATIVE PROJECTS
2007
Daniel Hug Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2006
Foundation Musee d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg, LU
2005
Daniel Hug Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (with Remy Zaugg, B. Wurtz, Adrian Schiess)
Galerie Susanna Kulli, Zurich, Switzerland (with Adrian Schiess and Heimo Zobernig)
2004
Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, IL
General Store, Milwaukee, WI (with Heimo Zobernig)
2002
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (with Stephen Prina)
Galerie Michael Hall, Vienna, Austria (Gaylen Gerber / Helen Mirra)
The Suburban, Oak Park, IL
2000
Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen, Bremen, Germany (with Joseph Beuys;
continued with Lynda Benglis, Kirsten Stoltmann, Jonathan Monk, Rachael Lackowicz, Johannes Wohnseifer: continued with Pierre Alechinsky: continued with Klauke)
1999
Chicago Project Room, Chicago, IL
The Suburban, Oak Park, IL (with David Robbins; continued with "Software ‘99", organized by David Muller and Three Day weekend)
Hermetic Gallery, Milwaukee, WI (with Adrian Schiess; continued with "Painty": David Kaiser, Lisa Shafir, Scott Spec, Niel Whitacre; continued with pretendTV)
1998
Monash University Galleries, Melbourne, Australia
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Chicago Project Room, Chicago, IL
1997
Galerie Susanna Kulli. St. Gallen, Switzerland
Chicago Project Room, Chicago, IL (Amy Wheeler and Mari Eastman with Gaylen Gerber; continued with Charlie Cho; continued with Helen Mirra)
1996
Lisson Gallery, London, England
1995
American Fine Arts, Co. New York, NY (with Roy Arden)
1994
Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY (with Joe Scanlan)
1992
Michael Kohn Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Wooster Gardens, New York, NY
The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1991
Founding of the Anonymous Museum, Chicago, IL
Robbin Lockett Gallery, Chicago, IL
1990
Le Case d’Arte, Milan, Italy
Wolff Gallery, New York, NY
Shedhalle, Zurich, Switzerland
1989
Galerie Nachst St. Stephan/Rosemarie Schwarzwalder, Vienna, Austria
Robbin Lockett Gallery, Chicago, IL
1988
Wolff Gallery, New York, NY
Robbin Lockett Gallery, Chicago, IL
1987
Grey Art Gallery and Study Center at New York University, New York, N
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2007
"Paradox and Practice: Architecture in the Wake of Conceptualism", University Art Gallery, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA (cooperative project with Dorit Margreiter)
"Conditions of Display", The Moore Space, Miami, FL (cooperative project with Remy Zaugg)
"Figures in the Field: Figurative Sculpture and Abstract Painting from Chicago Collections", The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL (cooperative project with Sherrie Levine)
"On Platforming", Locust Projects, Miami, FL (Cooperative project with Paul Drueke, Nicholas Frank, General Store and John Russell)
2005
"Le Genie du Lieu", Musee des Beaux-Arts, Dijon, France (cooperative project with 15th century Swiss primitive painting)
"States of Art Criticism", The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, (cooperative project with Ariella Budick, Lynne Cooke, James Elkins, Dave Hickey, Stephen Melville, Michael Newman and James Panero.
"The Early Show", White Columns, New York, NY
"Off-Key", Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland, (cooperative project with Stephen Prina)
"Asenseur pour Rio", FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon, France (cooperative project with Cecile Bart, Pedro Cabrita Reis, Dominique Ghesquire, Federico Guzman, MP & MP Rosado, Allen Ruppersberg)
2004
"Nothing Compared to This (ambient, incidental, and minimal tendencies in recent art) The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH (cooperative project with Heimo Zobernig)
"Voice of Site: Tokyo - Chicago - New York" - Tokyo Gaijutsu Daigaku Chrinretsu-kan Exhibition Hall, Tokyo, Japan
"The Center is Anywhere", The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
"Drunk vs. Stoned", Gavin Brown’s Enterprise at Passerby, New York, NY (cooperative project with Adrian Schiess)
2003
Tom Friedman, Gaylen Gerber, Joe Scanlan, Daniel Hug Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"Subject Index". The Pond, Chicago, IL (cooperative project with Cindy Loehr)
2002
"Northern Fundamentalisms of the New Order", Charlottenborg Exhibition Hall, Copenhagen, Denmark, (cooperative project with M&Co.)
"Ideal Avalanche", The Pond, Chicago, IL (cooperative project with Stephen Prina)
"A Szin Onallo Elete / Color: A Life of Its Own, Mucsarnok –Kunsthalle Budapest
"Pressing", Objectif, Antwerp, Belgium (cooperative project with Kris Fierens)
"Plat & Form: The Portable Hermetic Gallery", Haas Art Center, Eau Claire, WI (cooperative project with Nicholas Frank; with Milhaus)
2001
"SoundVideoImagesObjects", Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, IL (cooperative project with Mary Dunning)
"To The Trade", DiverseWorks, Houston, TX (cooperative project with John White Cerasulo)
"People See Painting", Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
2000
"La Biennale de Montreal 2000", Montreal, Canada
"Subject Picture", the optimistic, Chicago, IL (cooperative project with Jesse Chapman)
"Words-Objects-Acts", Museum of the City of Skopje, Skopje, Macedonia (cooperative project with Chris Smith and Sarah Price)
"Selected Works by:" Galerie Susanna Kulli, St. Gallen, Switzerland (cooperative project with John Armleder)
"To Infinity and Beyond: Editions for the Year 2000", Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York, NY
1999
"Kunst in der Stadt III", Kunsthaus, Bregenz, Austria (cooperative project with Kay Rosen)
"Selected works: Armleder, Fleury, Gerber, Hirschhorn, Mosset, Rockenschaub, Schiess", Galerie Susanna Kulli, St. Gallen, Switzerland
"Locked Groove", Doozer collaborative, Chicago, IL (cooperative project with David Robbins)
1998
Galerie Evelyne Canus, La-Colle-sur-Loup, France (cooperative project with Adrian Schiess)
"Les objects contiennent l’infini", Ecole Superieure des Beaux-Arts de Tours, Tours, France
1997
"Gaylen Gerber/James Casebere", Site Gallery, Sheffield, England
"About Painting", Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY
"Heaven", P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, NY
"New Works", Feigen Gallery, Chicago, IL
"100 Photographs", American Fine Arts, Co., New York, NY
1996
"DEAD PAN", Kunstverein Munich, Munich, Germany
"SCREEN", Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, NY
"Plane Speak-Contemporary Abstraction", Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
"Art in Chicago: 1945-1995", Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
"Superconcentrated", TBA Exhibition Space, Chicago, IL
1995
"Pictura/Immedia, Malerie in der 90er Jahren", Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria, traveled to Kunsthalle Budapest, Budapest, Hungary
"25 AMERICANS, Painting in the 90’s", Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI (cooperative project with John Currin)
"Being There", Paolo Balducci Gallery, New York, NY (juxtaposed with Alfred Stieglitz)
"Painting", Domaine De Kerguehennec Center D’Art Contemporain, Locmine/Bignan, France
"Ideal Standard Summertime", Lisson Gallery, London, England
Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
"Die Moderne Oder Die Uverwindung Eines Begriffs", Institute fur Museologie, Vienna, Austria
1994
"After and Before", The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
"Gaylen Gerber, James Welling, Angela Grauerholz", Galerie Nachst St. Stephan/Rosemarie Schwarzwalder, Vienna, Austria
"PRAXIS", Domaine de Kerguehennec, Centre D’Art Contemporain, Locmine/Bignan, France
"Painting", Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
1993
"New Conceptual Work", Feigen Gallery, Chicago, IL
"Drawings: Abstrakte Malerie Zwischen Analyse und Synthese", Galerie Nachst St. Stephan/Rosemarie Schwarzwalder, Vienna, Austria
"Works on Paper", Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY
"De la Main a la Tete, l’Object Theorique", Domaine de Kerguehennec, Centre D’Art Contemporain, Locmine/Bignan, France
"Range of Colors", White Columns, New York, NY
1992
"Documenta IX", Kassel, Germany,
"Abstrakte Malerie Zwischen Analyse und Synthese, Galerie Nachst St. Stephan/ Rosemarie Schwarzwalder, Vienna, Austria,
"From America’s Studio: Drawing New Conclusions", Betty Rymer Gallery, Chicago, IL
1991
"David Cabrera/Gaylen Gerber/Mitchell Kane", Trans Avante-Garde Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"Improvements ? on the Ordinary", Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
Galerie Anselmo Alvarez, Madrid, Spain
1990
"Mentalitaten un Konstructionen in Arbeiten auf Paper", Galerie Nachst St. Stephan/Rosemarie Schwarzwalder, Vienna, Austria
"Strategies for the Last Painting", Wolff Gallery, New York, NY, traveled to Feigen Gallery, Chicago, IL
"Drawings", Nathalie Karg Gallery, New York, NY
"Drawings", Paula Allen Gallery, New York, NY
1989
Robbin Lockett Gallery, Chicago, IL
"Problems with Reading Rereading", Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
"Material Matters", Art Center Gallery, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL
"Chicago Works: Art from the Windy City", Bruce Gallery, Edinboro, traveled to The University Pennsylvania, Erie, PA
"Mediated Knot", Robbin Lockett Gallery, Chicago, IL (co-curator)
"Prima Vision, Milano Internationale d’Arte contemporanea, Milan, Italy,
1988
"Drawings", Robbin Lockett Gallery, Chicago, IL
"Looking Out", Rockford Art Museum, Rockford. IL
"Tim Ebner/Gaylen Gerber/Allen McCollum", Ricky Renier Gallery, Chicago, IL
1987
"New Chicago: Quiet and Deliberate", Tangeman Fine Arts Gallery, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
"Nourishment", Beacon Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
Center for Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
"Wet Paint", Robbin Lockett Gallery, Chicago, IL
"July" Wolff Gallery, New York, NY
"Invitational", Damon Brandt Gallery, New York, NY
"The Non-Spiritual in Art/Abstract Painting 1985???", 341 West Superior Street, Chicago, IL
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2006
Seil, Gabrielle. "Be the Mudam’s Guest", Art Revue, October 10, 2006, Pages 64–68, (photo)
Richard-Reisen, Sophie. "(Re)decouverte de la Collection", Le Jeue, October 10, 2006, (photo)
Kampianne, Harry. "Mudam Premiere! Eldorado", Art Actual, Sept/Oct 2006, page 69, (photo)
Kochelkorn, Rene. "Kunstidentifikation, Diskursebene und Macht", Telblatt August 8, 2006, (photo)
Mosar, Christian. "La Salete au Musee", D’letzebuerger/land, July 14, 2006, 527/2006, (photo)
Trembley, Nicolas. "Court Appearance", Artforum Diary, artforum.com, July 5, 2006 (photo)
Carre, Gaston. "Le Sacred u Mudam", D’land, July 3, 2006, pages 13 & 16 (photo)
Ardenne, Paul. "Ouvefture du Mudam", Art Press 326, Sept 2006, pages 14-18, (photo)
Rolland, Marie-Laure. "Exposition Gaylen Gerber au Musee d’Art Moderne", d’Wort, October 6, 2006, page 17, (photo)
Botzler, Uli. "Zu Gast in Kunstbau", Telcran, no 28, 2006 (photo)
Jen, "Ein Offenes Haus der Gegenwart", Tageblatt, 513/2006, July 3, 2006, (photo)
Hansen, Josee. "Can’t Wait", D’Land, July 23, 2006, pages 6 & 7, (photo)
Rondeau, James. "Gaylen Gerber", Foundation Musee d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg, LU , exhibition catalog
Goldstein, Ann. "Best of 2005", Artforum, December 2005, XLIV, No.4, pages 246-247 (photo)
Grabner, Michelle. "States of Art Criticism: Art Papers drops in as Chicago Sizes up", Art Papers, January – February 2006, pages17-18 (photo)
2005
Pirotte, Philipe, Rondeau, James. "Off-Key", exhibition catalog (photo)
Yood, James. "Gaylen Gerber", Artforum, January 2005, page 187 (photo)
Henkes, Alice. "Welche Sprache spricht Kunst", Der Bund, June 3, 2005 page 15, (photo)
Tobler, Konrad. "Immer am Rand der Sprache", Berner Zeitung BZ, June 6, 2005, page 125-126, (photo)
2004
Massera, Jean-Charles. "A discussion then an e-interview", Fundamentalisms of the New Order", pages 40-41, 110, 296, 300, 329 (photo)
Deemarias, Charles. "Nothing Compared to this (ambient, incidental and new minimal tendencies in recent art)", exhibition brochure
Weiss, Rachael. "From Place to Place", Hixson, Kathryn. " Site Specific", A History of the Renaissance Society 1990-2001, pages 18-19, 58-59, 80, 263 (photo)
Artner, Alan G. "Gaylen Gerber", Chicago Tribune, Friday, October 8, 2004, section 7, page 27
Frank, Nicholas. "The Suburban: the Next Five Years", The Suburban - The Early Years, Pages 15, 22 - 25 (photo) (forthcoming in 2004)
2002
Rondeau, James. "Gaylen Gerber with Stephen Prina", Focus brochure: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Artner, Alan. "Gaylen Gerber dulls art’s cutting edge", Chicago Tribune, Thursday, February 4, 2002, (photo)
Grabner, Michelle. "Gaylen Gerber with Stephen Prina at the Art Institute of Chicago", Art/Text, Summer 2002, pages 88-89, (photo)
Finch, Leah. "Gaylen Gerber and Stephen Prina", New Art Examiner, May-June 2002, page 92 (photo)
2000
Thompson, Nato. "Out in the Cold with Gaylen Gerber", New Art Examiner, November 2000, Vol. 28 No. 3, pages17-21, 69 (photo)
McLaughlin, Bryne. "The Montreal Biennale", Canadian Art, Fall 2000, Vol. 17 No. 3, pages 38- 44 (photo)
Milevska, Suzane. "Words, Objects, Acts, and the Correlation Between Them", exhibition catalog, pages 6, 16, 23 (photo)
Gale, Peggy. "Every Time", La Biennale de Montreal 2000, exhibition catalog, pages 62 - 65, 147, 152 (photo)
1999
Kob, Edelbert. Sagmeister, Rudolf. Sans, Jerome. Schrock, Petra. "Naturally Art – KUNST IN DER STAT III" exhibition catalog, pages 36-39, 186 (photo)
1998
Bitterli. Konrad. "Interview with Gaylen Gerber", Monash University Galleries, exhibition catalog (photo)
Grabner, Michelle. "Gaylen Gerber: Chicago Project Room" frieze, issue 40, page 91, (photo)
Artist Pages, "Gaylen Gerber and Helen Mirra", White Walls, Issue 40, Spring 1998, pages 110-127 (photo)
Bryan, Edgar. "Gaylen Gerber, Chicago Project Room", Cakewalk, winter 1999, page 59 (photo)
Przybilla, Carrie. "Gaylen Gerber" High Museum of Art, exhibition catalog
Artist Pages, "Gaylen Gerber", Z international Art, No. 4, 1998, Sydney, Australia (photo)
Zacharopolous, Denys. "Les Objects contiennent l’infiniti", exhibition catalog, (photo)
Flash Reviews, "Gaylen Gerber, Chicago project room", http://www.interact.com./~lott 33/flashreviews
Zdonovics, Olga. "Gaylen Gerber: Chicago project room", The New Art Examiner, May 1998, pages 47-48 (photo)
Epperlein, Beate. "Monochrome Malerei: zur Unterschiedlichkeit des Vermeinlich Ahnlichen", Verlag fur Moderne Kunst Nurberg, 1997, pages 96, 205, 235 (photo)
Cullum, Jerry. "Artificially achieved perfection", The Atlanta Journal Constitution, Weekend Preview, Friday April 10, 1998, page Q7 (photo)
Artner, Alan G. "Obfuscation an issue in the work of Gaylen Gerber", Chicago Tribune, Friday, February 27, 1998, section 7, page 7 (photo)
Camper, Fred. "Look Back in Irony", Chicago READER, February 27, 1998, section 1, page 30-31 (photo)
1997
Frank, Nicholas. "BYOB/Mari Eastman and Amy Wheeler are at Chicago project room", Art Papers, Nov./Dec. 1997, volume 21, issue 6, pages 44 (photo)
Macoci, Roxana. Murphy, Diana. Sinaiko, Eve. ‘NEW art" Harry N. Abrams, Inc. pages 54-54, 1997 (photo)
Grabner, Michelle. "Chicago Project Room, Chicago March 22-april 13, 1997", Art/Text 58, 1997, page 86-87, (photo)
Aletti, Michael. "About Painting" the village VOICE, July 22, 1997, VOICE CHOICES, page 3
Halle, Howard. "About Painting, Part I", Time Out, New York, Issue 97, July 31- August 7, 1997, page 41
1996
Niklas, Claudia. "Ein Bild ist mehr als ein flaches Ding" Suddeutsche Zeitung, volume 12, July 1996
Dattenberger, Simone. "Gegen die Blumenwand rennen", Munchener Merkur, number 125, 12, June 1996
Sonna, Birgit. " Kunst-Tips", Suddeutsche Zeitung, vol 10, July 1996
Gerald, Fitz, Lash, Mike, Walker, Hamza. "Superconcentrated", exhibition catalog, (photo)
Schjeldahl, Peter "Screen", the village VOICE, February 13, 1996, page 77
1995
Weibel, Peter. "Painting in the 90’s: Between mediated visuality and visual context", exhibition catalog; PICTURA IMMEDIA: Malerei in der 90er Jahren, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria (photo)
Dreher, Thomas. "Antiquiertheit der Malerei?", exhibition catalog; Pictura Immedia, Malerei in der 90er Jahren, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria
Zacharopoulos, Denys. "Praxis, Une exposition de peinture", Domaine de Kerguehennec, exhibition catalog (photo)
Sobel, Dean. "What’s wrong with this picture?" Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI, exhibition catalog; "25 AMERICANS; Painting in the 90’s" (photo)
Green, Alison. "Towards the Real: New Abstraction in America", Vytvarne Umeni, special issue no. 1&2, pages 165-67 (photo)
Auer, James. "Seductive and Sensational", Milwaukee Journal/Sentinel, September 10, 1995
1994
Levin, Kim. "Gaylen Gerber/Joe Scanlan", Choices, the village VOICE, December 27, 1994, page 8
Smith, Roberta. "Gaylen Gerber/Joe Sanlan", Art in Review, The New York Times, December 16, 1994, page C 36
Borchhardt-Birbaumer, Brigitte. "Gerissen Gefugetes und Graues", Weiner Zeitung, April
Kruntorad, Paul. "Wildschwein. Schinkenrolle, Abstraktion" Der Standard, May 6, 1994
Zacharopoulos, Denys. "de la Main a la Tete, l’Object Theorique", exhibition catalog, (photo)
"Galerie Nachst St. Stephan", Die Press, Vienna, April 7, 1994
"Gaylen Gerber, Angela Grauerholz und James Welling", Vernissage, Vienna, April, 1994
Artner, Alan. "Two Decades in time is enough for Renaissance Society show", Chicago Tribune, April 6, 1994, page 9
Glatt, Kara. "Renaissance Society finds its place in time", Hyde Park Herald, April 6, 1994, page 9
1993
Artner, Alan. "Sharp conceptual show dares to be different", Chicago Tribune, January 22, 1993, section 7, page 56
Bouloutzas, Antonis. "Domaine de Kerguehennec--the unknown magnitude", Arti, November/December, volume 17, pages 67-95
---- "From the hand to the head, the theoretical object", Arti, November/December, volume 17, page 96
"A conversation with Denys Zacharopoulos and Antonis Bouloutzas", Arti, November/December, volume 17, pages 97-113
Arning, William. "Range of Colors", exhibition catalog, (photo)
1992
Hoet, Jan. Zacharopoulos, Denys. Tazzi, Pier Luigi. Documenta IX , exhibition catalog,, volume 1,2, pages 149, 196-197
Avgikos, Jan. "I know but when you ask me I don’t", The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, exhibition catalog
Kirshner, Judith Russi. "Gaylen Gerber", Artforum, Summer, volume XXX, no 11, page 114
Snodgrass, Susan. "Gaylen Gerber at the Renaissance Society", Art in America, July, page 114
Hixson, Kathryn. "Gaylen Gerber", Arts Magazine, May, not circulated
Wilk, Debra. "Gaylen Gerber: The Renaissance Society", New Art Examiner, May, volume 19, number 9
Myers, Terry R. "Route 66 to Kassel"
Fortt/Myers Publication, number 1, June
Adcock, Craig. "Gaylen Gerber", Tema Celeste, May/June
Glatt, Cara. "Painting demands patience from viewers", Hyde Park Herald, February 19, page 19
Hanson, Henry. "Art works", Chicago Magazine, April, volume 41, number 4, page 22
Schonborn, Philipp. "Abstrakte malerei Zwischen Analyse und Synthese", exhibition catalog, pages 16, (photo)
Artner, Alan. " Gerber paintings bring opposites to light", Chicago Tribune, February 7, section 7, page 67
Scanlan, Joe. "Focus on Painting", Newsletter: The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Winter, pages 1-2
1991
Scarle, Adrian. "Art: Preview" Time Out (London) November 20 & 21, page 41
Sonitsch, Lonnette. "Curiouser and Curiouser", Exeter, Summer, volume 1, number 3, pages 12-21
Peterman, Dan. "Improvements ? on the ordinary", Randolph Street Gallery, exhibition catalogue (photo)
Artner, Alan. "Group show ponders purpose for painting", Chicago Tribune, January 18, section 7, page 65
Palmer. Laurie. "Gaylen Gerber", Artforum, March, number 6, page 135
Hixson, Kathryn. "Gaylen Gerber in Neutral", Flash Art, June 18, number 159, pages 116-117
Hixson. Kathryn. "The Subject is the Object, The Legacies of Minimalism", New Art Examiner, May, pages 29-33
1990
Ostrow, Saul. "Repetition and Replication: Strategies for the Last Painting" exhibition essay
Hixson, Kathryn. "Gaylen Gerber", exhibition essay (photo)
McCracken, David. "Gallery Scene", Chicago Tribune, December 28, page 58
Kalina, Richard. "Gaylen Gerber at Jamie Wolff Gallery", Teme Celeste, July/October, number 26, page 65
Decter, Joshua. "Gaylen Gerber", Arts Magazine, September, volume 65, number 1, page 94
Muhr, Peter. "Gaylen Gerber", Flash Art, March/April, number 151, page 156
-----. "Gaylen Gerber at Galerie Nachst St. Stephan, Wein", Artis, February, page 50
1989
Hixson, Kathryn. "Gaylen Gerber", Arts Magazine, November, volume 64, number 3, page 111
Barckert, Lynda. "Gaylen Gerber", New art Examiner, October
Scanlan, Joe. "Problems with Reading Rereading’, Artforum, September, volume 28, number 1, page 151
Artner, Alan. "Gaylen Gerber and his Grays: The Ultimate Neutrality", Chicago Tribune, June 8, section 5, page 9
McCracken, David. "Monochrome Paintings Provoke Question", Chicago Tribune, June 16, section 7, page 60
McCracken, David. "Artists Share Thoughts on Warhol Exhibit", Chicago Tribune, August 4, section 7, page 54
Gamble, Alison. "The Myths that Work: Beneath the Surfaces of Chicago Art", New Art Examiner, May, page 22-25
Fernandes, Joyce. "Chicago Works: Art from the Windy City", Bruce Gallery, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, Erie Art Museum (exhibition essay)
Hixson, Kathryn. "Gaylen Gerber", Arts Magazine, October, volume 62, no 2 page
1988
Hixson, Kathryn. "Cool, Conceptual, Controversial", New Art Examiner, May, volume 15, number 9, pages 30-33
Artner, Alan. " Gaylen Gerber" Chicago Tribune, June 2, section 5, page 11B
Brown, Daniel. "New Chicago: Quiet and Deliberate", Dialogue, July/August, volume 11, number 4, pages 39-40
McCracken, David. "Still Lifes Show They Can Move the Viewer", Chicago Tribune, June 24, section 7, page 58
1987
Bonesteel, Michael. "Medium Cool: New Chicago Abstraction", Art in America, December, volume 75, number 12
Westerbeck, Colin. "Pendant’s Progress", Chicago READER, July 10, section 1, pages 38-43
SELECTED GRANTS AND AWARDS
2000
Individual Artist Fellowship, The ArtCouncil, New York
1999
Artists Fellowship, The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation
Artslink, CEC International Partners (NEA and The Kettering Fund)
1998
Chicago Artists International Fellowship, Department of Cultural Affairs
1994
Artist Fellowship, NEA/Arts Midwest