BIBLIOGRAPHY (reviews)
Robert L. Pincus San Diego Union Tribune, Women’s Work, ,Bonded by Nature, Bergman,
Foosaner, McCormack , Brooke. February 7, 2008
Suzi Gablik Resurgence, Mystery of Color, September-October 2004
Peter Selz Art in America, July 2003, Ciel Bergman at R.B. Stevenson Gallery
Joe Szarek The Rio Grande Sun, May 22, 2003, Coyote Artist: Seek the Beautiful or Perish
Guy Cross THE Magazine, Santa Fe’s Monthly Magazine of the Arts, April 2003, The Universe of: Painter Ciel Bergman
Robert L. Pincus The San Diego Union-Tribune, Night and Day, Up Front, November 21, 2002, Nature’s Present Tense
Chris Bache IONS Noetic Sciences Review, March-May 2002, Stepping Into the Fire
Richard Tobin THE Magazine, June 2000, Ciel Bergman, Antidote
Robert L. Pincus The San Diego Union-Tribune, Night and Day, Visual Arts, January 27, 2000, Reaching for the Sky
Richard Tobin THE Magazine, December 1998, pg. 41, The Art of Drawing
Marilyn Moyle The Davis Enterprise, December 10, 1998, pg. 14, Ciel Bergman, The Artist’s Journey
Steven Jenkins Art Week, November 1998, Ciel Bergman: Before New Mexico/After California, Paintings and Drawings, 1980-1998
Diana Armitage THE Magazine, March 1998, Trees and Faces
Nancy Doll Women/Beyond Borders, exhibition catalogue, Santa Barbara Contemporary Art Forum, 1996
John de Heras Verde Que Te Quiero Verde, exhibition catalogue, a collaborative exhibition, Universities of Madrid and Castilla-La Mancha, Spain, and California State University at Long Beach, California, 1995-1996
Thomas H. Garver Flora: Contemporary Artists and the World of Flower, exhibition catalogue, Woodson Museum, 1995
Ciel Bergman Just Friends, exhibition catalogue, Berkeley Art Center, 1994
Sandy Ballatore Crosswinds, Vol. 5, No. 10, September 1993, Reconnecting Art, Ciel Bergman
Laura Funkhauser Seattle Weekly, March 24, 1993, Art Has No Gender
Laura Funkhauser Vision Art Quarterly, fall 1993, Eco Trip: Embracing Nature, Seattle Area
Frank McEntire Catalyst Magazine, February 1992, Sticks and Stones – The Artist as Shaman
Richard P. Christensen Desert News, Salt Lake Center Newsletter, February 16, 1992, “SLAC Delivers Timely Spiritual Message”
Betty Klausner The Independent, October 1, 1992, pg. 37, Healing Through Beauty, The Art of Ciel Bergman
Ciel Bergman The Santa Barbara News-Press, Scene, View From Here, February 28, 1992, The Split Between Culture and Nature
Jerry A. Schefcik Issues of Water, exhibition catalogue, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 1992
Edward Leffingwell Dreams and Shields, Spiritual Dimensions in Contemporary Art, exhibition catalogue, Salt Lake Art Center, 1992
Ann Skiold The Santa Barbara Independent, June 6-13, 1991, Ten of Our Own
Joan Crowder The Santa Barbara News-Press, Scene, June 7, 1991,
Surrounded by Mysterious Pasts and Presences
Heather S. Lineberry Challenging Myths – Five Artists, exhibition catalogue, Bakersfield Art Museum, 1991
Melinda Johnson The Santa Barbara News-Press, August 25, 1990, UCSB Report
Joyce Hanson The New City-Chicago Bi-Weekly, September 13, 1990, Can Art Save the World
Jeff Abell The New Art Examiner, Chicago, December 1990, Cultural Imperatives in the Ecological Age
Roger Hurlburt The Sun Sentinel News, Boca Raton, FL, November 1990, New Galleries Draw Attention to Boca
Josef Woodard The Independent, February 2, 1989, The Better Sex
David Floria Revelations – The Transformative Impulse in Recent Art
John Perreault exhibition catalogue, Aspen Art Museum, 1989
Suvan Geer The Los Angeles Times, September 22, 1989, Galleries
Ben Marks Art Week, September 30, 1989, The Black-and-White Overturned
Mary Esbaugh Hayes The Aspen Times, July 13, 1989, Revelation in the Aspen Museum
Edward Goldman Art Talk, Dennis Leon and Ciel Bergman at Dorothy Goldeen Gallery (over a Los Angeles radio station)
Joan Crowder The Santa Barbara News-Press, December 1, 1989, Chock-Full of Artistic Adventure
Pamela Hammond Art News, Los Angeles, December 1989, Ciel Bergman, Dorothy Goldeen
Joan Crowder The Santa Barbara News-Press, Scene, July 31, 1987, Bowers Exhibit at CAF for the Vandal In Us All
Joan Crowder The Santa Barbara News-Press, August 6, 1987, Installation of Trash: Disturbing Statement
Josef Woodard The Independent, August 20, 1987, Atonal Convergence
Suzanne Muchnic The Los Angeles Times, August 22, 1987, The Sensuality of Judy Dater Amid The Charms of Santa Barbara
Kathryn Diage Warren Diversity and Presence, Women Artist Faculty of the University
Melinda Wortz of California, exhibition catalogue, 1987
Tillie Olsen Women’s Sensibilities, exhibition catalogue, Warm Gallery, 1986
Julie Yanson, Betsy Damon
Joan Crowder The Santa Barbara News-Press, April 1986, Cheryl Bowers Germinates Seeds of New World
Betty Klausner X-Change, Celebrating Art Made Out of the Mainstream, exhibition catalogue, Santa Barbara Contemporary Forum, 1985
Pamela Hammond New Directions in California Painting, exhibition catalogue, Visual Arts Center, Anchorage, AK, 1985
Kenneth Baker The San Francisco Chronicle, May 29, 1985, New Paintings in Search of a Purpose
Bill Anderson The Santa Barbara News and Review, June 20, 1985, Curating a Scene
Michael Kampen The Santa Barbara News-Press, July 9, 1985, By The Sea
Isabel Anderson Art Week, October 1, 1983, Running Big Risks
Charles Shere National Watercolor Invitational, exhibition catalogue, University of Wisconsin, 1983
Robert L. Pinkus The Los Angeles Times, September 30, 1983, The Galleries, Downtown
Tom Krumpak Designers West, November 1983, Paint, Passion and the New Image
Alfred Jan Images and Issues, November/December 1983, Cheryl Bowers
Sarah Kent Time Out, London, England, May 21-27, 1982, Visual Art
George W. Neubert Fresh Paint – 15 California Artists, exhibition catalogue, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1982
Thomas Albright Art News, September 1982, Fresh Paint
Suzan Boettger The San Francisco Chronicle, June 1982, Fresh Paint, New Fingerprints
Cathy Curtis Art Week, July 17, 1982, Fresh Paint, Questioning a Premise
Robert Atkins The California Magazine, September 1982, Galleries
Charles Shere The Oakland Tribune, October 1982, Bowers Art Re-emerges with Seasoned Clarity
William Wilson The Los Angeles Times, September 18, 1981, Galleries, Downtown
Anne Gilbar The Santa Barbara Magazine, Fall 1981, Living Art in Santa Barbara
Charles Shere The Oakland Tribune, April 1980, New Cheryl Bowers’ Painting Ranks with California’s Best
Thomas Albright The San Francisco Chronicle, April 30, 1980, Three Artists Who Challenge Convention
Robert Atkins The Bay Guardian, Night and Day, May 12, 1980, Cheryl Bowers
James Wood Art Week, December 13, 1980, Records of China
Richard Ames The Santa Barbara News-Press, November 29, 1980, Bowers’ Show a Departure
Suzanne Muchnic The Los Angeles Times, February 23, 1979, Art Walk
Christina Madden Art Week, March 10, 1979, Exploration of Self
Gerrit Henry Art News, April 1979
Edgar Buonaguirio Arts, June 1979
Charles Shore The Oakland Tribune, May 1978, Cheryl Bowers Paints from the Inside Out
Edward Leffingwell 18 Bay Area Artists, exhibition catalogue, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, 1976
Mary Stofflet Three Bay Area Artists, exhibition catalogue, University of California Riverside, 1976
William Wilson The Los Angeles Times, May 1976, Grim Portrait of Bay Area
Charles Shere The Oakland Tribune, June 1976, Oakland, 1976
David Weinstein Art Week, June 1976, Seven Oakland Artists
Mary Stofflet-Santiago Art Week, May 1976, Cheryl Bowers and Sandra Taylor
Thomas Albright The Art Gallery Magazine, February 1976, Mythmakers
The Whitney Biennial, exhibition catalogue, The Whitney Museum of American Art, 1975
Alfred Frankenstein The San Francisco Chronicle, August 1975, Winners for Sure
Judith Dunham Art Week, August 1975, 1975 S.E.C.A. Exhibit, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Suzanne Foley 1975 S.E.C.A. Exhibit, exhibition catalogue, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1975
Interstices, exhibition catalogue, San Jose Museum of Art, 1975
Charles Shere The Oakland Tribune, April 1974, Choose History or What’s Happening
Cecile McCann Art Week, May 4, 1974, Bay Area Studio Sampling
Robert Keil Art Week, October 5, 1974, Cheryl Bowers in Search of Centeredness
Charles Shere The Oakland Tribune, October 3, 1974, Cheryl Bowers Paints with Knowing Visi
Thomas Albright The San Francisco Chronicle, October 5, 1974, The Search for Mythology
Paul Allman The Berkeley Gazette, June 30, 1973, Art Who.
Charles Shere The Oakland Tribune, June 3, 1973, Cheryl Bowers’ Art in Berkeley
Joanne Dickson Art Week, September 29, 1973, Cheryl Bowers, Works on Paper
Charles Shere The Oakland Tribune, October 9, 1973, Berkeley Artist’s Work is Suite of Tone and Texture
BOOKS
Lucy R. LippardUndermining, A Wild Ride Through Land Use, Politics, and Art In The Changing West, The New Press, 2013, pg 179
Roshi Joan SutherlandAcequias and Gates, Miscellaneous Writing on Koans, illuminations throughout the publication, 2015
John K Grande, Esko Nummelin, Dr. Peter Selz, curator, PIA HOVI-ASSSAD, ECO-ARTArt and Nature, Pori Art Museum, Pori, FinlandTammerprint Oy, Tampere, 2012
Gass/ZimbardoFifty Years of Bay Area Art, The SECA Awards, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Press, 2011, pg 53
Nancy F. Cott Feminists Who Changed America 1963-1975, Univ.Ill. ,Press, Editor, B.J. Love, 2006, pg 39
Peter Selz Art and Politics in California, UC Press, 2005
Suzi Gablik The Reenchantment of Art, Thames & Hudson, New York, NY, 1991
Henry Hopkins California Painters, Chronicle Books, San Francisco, CA, 1989
Elinor Gaddon The Once and Future Goddess, the Goddess Within: A Source of Empowerment for Women
Sylvia Moore (ed) Yesterday and Tomorrow: California Women Artists; Art & Spirituality: Eight Women, Midmarch Press, New York, NY, 1989
Thomas Albright Art in the San Francisco Bay Area 1945-1980, University Press, UC Berkeley, 1985
The California Art Review, Second Edition, pgs. 98, 228 and 229,
American References, Chicago, IL, 1989
Who’s Who in American Women, 1998
Who’s Who in American Art 1989
MAGAZINE FEATURES
Suzi GablikResurgence, The Mystery of Color, September/October 2004
Chris Bache IONS Magazine, Stepping Into The Fire, Transformation of Consciousness (photograph of painting to accompany text), March/May 2002, No. 59
Sandy Ballatore Crosswinds, Reconnecting Art, Vol. 5, No. 10, New Mexico’s News Monthly, interview by Sandy Ballatore, September 1993
Elizabeth Darby Junkin Buzzworm, The Environmental Journal, Nature’s Vanguard, Vol. II, No. 5, The Works of Ciel Bergman, William Lesch, Ana Medieta and James Balog Explore the Boundaries of Environmental Art, September/October 1990
Mary Beth Nelson Southwest Art, The Moving Spirit: Artists Offer Signposts Toward the Preservation of the Earth, pgs. 60-64, April 1990
Anne Simkinson Common Boundaries, Women When the World Began, pg. 20, May/June 1989
Images & Issues, Contemporary Art Review, Vol. 3, No. 6, work reproduced on cover of magazine, May/June 1983
Ciel Bergman Images & Issues, Equal Time, pg. 4, September/October 1983
VIDEO
Eve Reynolds Women in Contemporary Art, interview, host Cecelia Davidson, for PBS Broadcasting, Producer Reynolds taped at Continental Cable vision, Marina Del Rey, CA, 1989
Rachel Rosenthal Painting images projected over-scale as set for L.O.W. in Gaia, a performance by artist Rachel Rosenthal, Los Angeles, New York and Documenta, Germany, 1989
Cheryl Bowers Sea of Clouds What Can I Do, produced by artist to run concurrent with the exhibition of the same name
LECTURES / SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS / UNPUBLISHED PAPERS
1999 Abrams Lecture & Prize, UCSB Women’s Center, Santa Barbara, CA
1993 Notes on a Pilgrimage to Beauty, The Sacred in the Arts, A Conference and Celebration Transcending Contemporary Taboos: Reawakening to Beauty, Wonder and Sacred Values Through the Arts, Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York, NY
1992 Cultural Imperatives in the Ecological Age, College Art Association, panelist (first public reading of Ecological Degradation and the Cultural Repression of Beauty), Chicago, IL
The Heart of Helping, Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City, UT
Ecological Degradation and the Cultural Repression of Beauty, Brigham Young University, UT
1991 Beauty Conferred: Dr. James Hillman, Jungian analyst; Ursula K. LeGuin, poet essayist; Suzi Gablik, artist, author; Julian White, pianist, composer; Cheryl Bowers, professor, painter – Scottish Rite Auditorium, Pacifica Graduate Institute, San Francisco, CA (on tape)
Artlink Symposium: Sea of Clouds by Ciel Bergman, Wasteland by David Hanson, Toward a Post-Columbian World by Lucy Lippard, The Reenchantment of Art by Suzi Gablik, Phoenix Community Alliance, AZ
1990 Woman: Image & Image Maker, a three-day colloquium celebrating Women’s History Month with Dr. Eira Patnaik, Professor of English Studies, Rollins College, Florida; Ann Deavere Smith, author/artist/professor; Sandra Cisneros, writer/lecturer; Sandra Shotlander, playwright/actress/director, Australia – College of Arts and Lectures, Department of Foreign Languages, and Department of Women’s Studies, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Cultural Imperatives in the Ecological Age, with Robert Janz, painter/performance; David Hanson, photographer; Mierle Ukeles, sculptor/performance; critic Suzi Gablik – Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
The Heart of Helping, papers by Jack Kornfield, Ph.D.; Sam Naifeh, Jungian analyst; Arthur Coleman, Jungian analyst; Yvonne Rand, Zen priest; Cheryl Bowers, painter – Fort Mason Conference Center, C.G. Jung Institute, San Francisco, CA
Cultural Imperatives in the Ecological Age (panel), Suzi Gablik, guest speaker, with painters Othello Anderson, Ciel Bergman, and photographer David Hanson – Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL
Borders and Bridges, MACAA 1990 Conference, panel on Environmental Sculpture: Specific References, Helen Escobedo, Thomas McCauley, Nobuho Nagasawa, Ciel Bergman – University of Arizona, Tucson
1989 In High Gear/Survival in the ’90s, panelist; Chair Margaret Lazzari, Southern California Women’s Caucus for the Arts, Los Angeles
Artist Activists: A Woman’s Art for the Transformation of Culture, Chair Dr. Elinor Gaddon, Women’s Caucus for the Arts, College Art Association, San Francisco, CA
1988 Women When the World Began, symposium with Marija Gimbutas, Professor European Archaeology, UCLA; Lucy Lippard, art critic; Mayumi Oda, serigrapher; Dr. Sylvia Brinton Perera, Jungian analyst; Dr. Nor Hall, psychotherapist/author; Dr. Betty De Shong, Jungian analyst; Maia Aprahamian, composer of opera; Cheryl Bowers, painter/professor, UCSB; C.G. Jung Institute, San Francisco, CA
1987 A Fifteen Year Survey, Scripps College, evening slide lecture, Claremont Graduate School, CA
1986 Seaside, a public lecture series, “Gates to the Ocean: The Paintings of Cheryl Bowers,” School of Architecture and Allied Arts, University of Oregon, Eugene
1982 Invited keynote speaker, M.F.A. Commencement, University of California, Berkeley
1981 Co-created with Sam Erenbert, The Actual Symposium: Change Persistence in Creativity and Culture, May 8, 9, 10, by Santa Barbara Contemporary Art Forum. Grants by the National Endowment for the Arts and Santa Barbara Neighborhood Arts Project, a discourse between Dr. Jose Arguelles, art historian; Dr. Niccolo Caderni, theoretical physicist; Leslie Labowitz, performance artist; Dr. Richard Hecht, historical theologian; Dr. Michael Moerman, anthropology; Chick Strand, independent filmmaker; Gene Youngblood, author/lecturer on electronics/communication revolution. Review: Art in America, The Actual Symposium, Dr. Peter Selz, UCB, November