Press

Click on links below to download PDFs of the following reviews:

• Kenneth Baker, “Back to the Past at Western Union,” San Francisco Chronicle, December 27, 1991

• Ray Beldner, “The San Francisco Bay Area: Ten Artists on Their Way Up,” Art West, January, 1995

• William Corbett, “Cover Story: Entering Komater's Harem,” artsMEDIA Magazine, February 15-March 15, 2001

• Cover story, Gallery Guide, Boston/New England, February 2001

• Beth Goldberg, “Through the Looking Glasses: Female Identity De- and Reconstructed in Bay Area,” Visions Art Quarterly, Spring/Summer, 1995

• Robert Glück, “Cell,” essay accompanying online solo installation, Marjorie Wood Gallery, May/June 2003

• Robert Glück, “Jack & Mack,” essay accompanying solo exhibition at Mercury 20 Gallery, August 2019

• Glen Helfand, “Critics’ Pick: ‘Hairy Bodies,’” ARTFORUM Online, February, 2005

• Shawn Hill, “Refracted Intimacies,” Bay Windows, February 15, 2001

• Mary Hull Webster, “Manipulated Desires,” Artweek, July 21, 1994

• Steven Jenkins, “For Your Eyes Only,” Bay Area Reporter, March 27, 1997

• Steven Jenkins, “Up Close & Personal: Chris Komater's ‘Allegory’ at Sweetow,” Bay Area Reporter, October 9, 1997

• Cate McQuaid, “Beauty Gets a Makeover..,” Boston Globe, February 8, 2001

• Christopher Millis, "On and Off the Street," Boston Phoenix, February, 2001

• Harry Roche, “Critic's Choice: ‘High Noon,’” San Francisco Bay Guardian, October 27, 1993

• Scott Ruescher, "The Bear Body: Komater's Boston Exhibit, Reviewed," ArtsEditor, March 2001

• Donna Schumacher, “Chris Komater,” Art Papers, September/October, 1997

• Kathleen Shields, “Chris Komater,” Parallaxis; Fifty-Five Points to View, pp 75, 128, 1997

• Robin Tremblay-McGaw, “What's More Crude Than a Curl? The Photographs of Chris Komater,” Lipstick Eleven, Issue #2, 2001