Statement:

Biological Regionalism

As our cultures become more homogenized by mass media and consumerism, the one element that remains true to a region is its nature. Although we try to manipulate it to fit our needs, the landscape and the biological inhabitants characterize a region's nature. It has been an omnipresent influence that has affected a region's people and the culture. The knowledge describing a region's distinguishing natural elements is being lost as generations become continually disconnected from a lifestyle that relies on the landscape for survival."Biological Regionalism" is a series of paintings and videos that identify the landscape and the fish that are distinctive to a region. I envision the project creating indigenous symbols of a culture.

For the past 15 years, I have lived in Western New York and have worked on several series of paintings that investigated Cuban and American culture. Many years ago, I began reading about local history and began researching local entomology, biological cycles of regional salmonids (trout) and the role of local rivers on culture. As I acquired more information about the region, I found myself being seduced by the angling art of Henry Inman, Thomas Doughty, Winslow Homer and Thomas Cole; the fish still life of Gustave Courbet, William Chase and Emil Carlsen ; the landscape work of Martin Heade Johnson, Jose Maria Valesco and the early work of Alexis Rockman. The devotional painting approach that I incorporated in my earlier series has continued through to the present series. While the past work concentrated on issues relating to art history and elements of Cuban/American culture, the recent work continues the focus on art history while incorporating biological regionalism.

While piscatorial art and nature painting was considered a form of "high art" during the early 20th century, it no longer seems innovative in our contemporary art landscape. The connection between nature and culture seems to have been lost, as most of our social and economic reliance has moved to an urban setting. This project tries to reaffirm the lost connection by re-introducing the fish and landscape that are characteristic to a region through the use of traditional and contemporary mediums.

While the regions are specific the issues raised are universal.

MUSEUM COLLECTIONS
Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA
Frost Art Museum, Florida International University, Miami, FL
Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn ,NY
Burchfield Art Center, Buffalo, NY
Catskill Fly Fishing Museum, Livingston, NY
Castellani Art Museum, Niagara University, NY
El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY
First National Bank Collection, Johnstown, PA
Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, FL
Marine Midland Collection, Buffalo, NY
Museo Extremeno e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporaneo, Badajoz, Spain
Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL
National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson, WY
Roger Tory Peterson Institute of Natural History, Jamestown, NY
St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY
Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008 Staniar Gallery, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA
2005 El Museo Francisco Oller y Diego Rivera, Buffalo, NY
Erie Art Museum, Erie, PA
Abud Foundation for the Arts, Lawrenceville, NJ
2004 I.G.F.A. Museum, Fort Lauderdale, Fl
2002 Erpf Gallery of the Catskill Center, Arkville, NY
Roger Tory Peterson Institute of Natural History - Jamestown, NY
Buffalo Arts Studio - Buffalo, NY
2001 Adams Art Gallery - Dunkirk, NY
1999-00 Bertha V. B. Lederer Gallery - State University of New York at Geneseo, NY
Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center - Buffalo, NY
Big Orbit Gallery - Buffalo, NY
Weeks Gallery - Jamestown Community College, Jamestown, NY
1997 Sharidan Art Gallery - Kutztown University, Kutztown ,PA
Richard Brush Art Gallery - St. Lawrence University, Canton NY
Miramar Gallery - Sarasota, FL
1996 Galeria Nina Menocal - Mexico City, Mexico
Meridian Gallery - San Francisco, CA
1995 Schneider Museum of Art - Southern Oregon State College - Ashland, OR
Wayne County Council for the Arts - Lyons, NY
Castellani Museum - Niagara University, NY
Howard Yezerski Gallery - Boston, MA
1993 Mercer Gallery - Monroe Community College, Rochester, NY
INTAR Gallery - New York City, NY
1992 Olean Public Library - Olean, NY
Nina Freudenheim Gallery - Buffalo, NY
1990-91 Rockefeller Art Center - State University of New York, Fredonia, NY
Harcus Gallery - Boston, MA
Art Dialogue Gallery - Buffalo, NY
1988-89 Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art (MoCHA) - New York City, NY
Art Dialogue Gallery - Buffalo, NY
Stavaridis Gallery - Boston, MA
1986 Mercer Gallery - Monroe Community College - Rochester, NY
El Museo Francisco Oller Y Diego Rivera - Buffalo, NY

INVITATIONAL EXHIBITIONS
2006 Layers: Collecting Cuban-American Art, University of Buffalo Art
Gallery, Buffalo, NY
From Aguirre to Zuniga: The Figure in Latin American Art, Castellani Art Museum, Niagara University, NY Rockefeller Art Center - faculty exhibition - State University of New York, Fredonia, NY Art Museum, two-person exhibition, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
2005 M & T Center - "Concerning Heritage" - Buffalo, NY
Burchfield- Penney Art Center -"Abstract fron the Collection", Buffalo, NY
Burchfield- Penney Art Center -"Concerning Heritage", Buffalo, NY
2004 Burchfield- Penney Art Center-"Art on the Hyphen:Cuban-American Artist of Western New York", Buffalo, NY
2003 Museum of Art- "Museum Collection"-Fort Lauderdale, FL
2002 Burchfield-Penney Art Center - "A Second Look: Selections from Four Decades of Western New York Artists"- Buffalo, NY
Anderson Gallery - "Big Orbit Gallery: Ten Years of Spin on Western New York Art" -Buffalo, NY
Allyn Gallup Contemporary Art - "Boxes Boxed"- Sarasota, FL
Russell Jinishian Gallery - Union League Club - New York, NY
2001 Chautauqua Center for the Visual Arts - "Nature: Reflections from the Natural World" - Chautauqua Institution, NY
Museum of Art - "Breaking Barriers - Naples, FL
2000 Russell Jinishian Gallery- Fairfield, CT
Bronx Museum of Art - "Selections" - Bronx, NY
Atrium Gallery - "Transferred Sensibilities" - Corning Community College,- Corning, NY
1999 Conlon Siegal Gallery - Santa Fe, NM
South Shore Art Center - "Uncommon Perspectives"- Cohasset, MA
1998 Tampa Museum of Art - "Nature: Friend, Foe and the Spiritual Muse"- Tampa, FL
Tampa Museum of Art - "Breaking Barriers: Contemporary Cuban Art"- Tampa, FL
Conlon Siegal Gallery - Santa Fe, NM
PaineWebber Art Gallery - " Histories (Re) membered" - New York, NY
Museum of Art -" Breaking Barriers: Selections from the Permanent Collection" - Fort Lauderdale, FL
Concept Art Gallery - "Artists as Curators"- Pittsburgh, PA
Bronx Museum of Art - "Talk Back! The Community Responds to the Permanent
Collection - Part III"- Bronx, NY
1997 Bronx Museum of Art - "Talk Back! The Community Responses to the Permanent
Collection, Part II" - Bronx, NY
Richard Brush Art Gallery - "PAST CUBA Identity and Identification in Cuban- American Art" - St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY
Thomas Walsh Art Gallery - "PAST CUBA Identity and Identification in Cuban- American Art"- Quick Center for the Arts, Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT
Gramercy International Contemporary Art Fair, Miami, FL
Art Miami, Miami, FL
1996 Burchfield-Penney Art Center - "Toys: the Artist at Play" - Buffalo, NY
Forum Gallery - "Regional Review" - Jamestown, NY
Lucky Street Gallery - group exhibition - Key West, FL
Bronx Museum of Art - two person exhibition - Bronx, NY
1995 Adams Art Gallery - "AIR Show" - Dunkirk, NY
Philharmonic Center -" Engaged Cultures" (touring exhibition) - Naples, FL
1994 Bronx Museum of Art - "Building the Collections: Recent Acquisitions and
Selected Works from the Permanent Collection" - Bronx, NY
Hofstra Museum - "Engaged Cultures" - Hempstead, NY
Rockefeller Art Center - "Engaged Cultures" - State University of New York, Fredonia, NY
College of St. Rose -"Engaged Cultures"- Albany, NY
1993 Castelanni Art Museum - "New Additions" - Niagara University, NY
Mercer Gallery - "Gods Greatest Hits" - Monroe Community College,Rochester, NY
Art Museum - "Verging on Emergence" - University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, WI
Rockefeller Art Center - "Explorations" - State University of New York, Fredonia, NY
Harnett Gallery -"Engaged Cultures"- University of Rochester,Rochester, NY
1992 Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center - "The Second Skin" - Buffalo, NY
Burchfield Art Center - "The Nude Figure in Art from the Collection" - Buffalo, NY
Tower Fine Arts Gallery - faculty exchange exhibition - Brockport, NY
Art Dialogue Gallery - "Regional Art Exhibition" - Buffalo,NY
Forum Art Gallery - "Wit and Wisdom: Humor in Art" - Jamestown, NY
1990-91 Harcus Gallery - "Boston through the Years" - Boston,MA
"Personal Territories: Artists from the Southern Tier" - traveling exhibition Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, NY / Burchfield Art
Center, Buffalo, NY / Circle Gallery, Olean, NY /Forum Gallery, Jamestown, NY
Oxford Gallery - "Drawings and Prints" - Rochester, NY
Memorial Art Gallery - "Unique Works on Paper" - Rochester, NY
Albright-Knox Art Gallery - "Selections from Marine Midland Collection" -Buffalo, NY
Bank of Boston - "South Street Collections" - Boston, MA
Oxford Gallery - group exhibition - Rochester, NY
1988-89 Adams Memorial Art Gallery - group exhibition - Dunkirk, NY
Oxford Gallery - "The Nude" - Rochester, NY
Stavaridis Gallery - group exhibition - Boston, MA
Kipp Gallery - "Alumni Invitational Exhibition" - Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA
1987 Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center-"Western New York Invitational Slide
Registry"- Buffalo, NY
Art Dialogue - "Director's Choice Exhibition"- Buffalo, NY
Oxford Gallery - "Recent Works: Jose Cruz and Alberto Rey" - Rochester, NY
Bethune Gallery - "An Awe-Inspiring Show of Visual Thespians" - Buffalo, NY
Art Dialogue - "Art Parts Invitational Exhibition" - Buffalo, NY
1986 Oxford Gallery - "Oxford Artists" - Rochester, NY
Pyramid Art Gallery - "Artist-invite-Artist" - Rochester, NY
Sunship Communications Center - "Artist and Models Annual Invitational Exhibition" - Buffalo, NY
1985 Bethune Gallery - "Politica and Art Exhibition" - Buffalo, NY
Oxford Gallery - "New Artists" - Three Person Show - Rochester, NY

JURIED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1998 Spaces - "Regional Forecast" - Cleveland, OH
1994 Anderson Gallery - "Pre-sent" - Buffalo, NY
Erie Art Museum - Erie, PA
1993 Albright Knox Art Gallery - " In Western New York 1993" - Buffalo, NY
1992 Anderson Gallery - "X Sightings" - Buffalo, NY
1990-91 Albright Knox Art Gallery - "In Western New York 1991" - Buffalo, NY
Albright -Knox Art Gallery - "Western New York Exhibition" - Buffalo, NY
1988-89 Adams Memorial Art Gallery - group exhibition - Dunkirk, NY
1987 Adams Memorial Gallery - "Performance Installation" - Dunkirk, NY
Artist Gallery of Western New York - "Dixon-Gemperlein-Rey" - Buffalo, NY
AAO Gallery - group exhibition - Best of Show - Buffalo, NY
1986 AAO Gallery - "Fourth Annual Art Expo" - Buffalo, NY
Adams Memorial Gallery - "Access to the Arts Annual Juried Exhibition" - Dunkirk, NY
1985 Artmart - "Persona" - Three Man Show - Buffalo, NY
Memorial Art Gallery - "Finger Lakes Art Competition" - Rochester, NY
Gallery at 24 - group exhibit - Bay Harbor, FL
1984 Mutiny - group exhibition - Coconut Grove, FL
Los Angeles International Art Competition - Traveling exhibition and lecture series - Los Angeles, CA
Cambria County Center for the Arts - "Cambria County Group Exhibition" - Johnstown, PA
William Penn Memorial Museum - " William Penn Memorial Museum Annual Exhibition"
-Harrisburg, PA
1983 Pittsburgh Center for the Arts - "Pittsburgh Society of Artists Exhibition" - Pittsburgh, PA
Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art - "Allied Artist 51st Annual Juried Show", Shirley Gaynor Honor Award / Honorable Mention - Johnstown, PA
Undercroft Gallery - "Undercroft Gallery Painting Exhibition" - Pittsburgh, PA
Allied Artists' Print, Photo, and Drawing Exhibition - First Prize and
Honorable Mention - Johnstown, PA
Hoyt Institute of Fine Arts - "Hoyt National Painting Show" - Grumbacher Award - New Castle, PA
Three Rivers Art Festival - group exhibition - Pittsburgh, PA
Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art - "U.S. National Art Exhibition" - Merit / Purchase Award; selected into Permanent Collection - Johnstown, PA

GRANTS/AWARDS
2006 Northern Chautauqua Community Foundation, Dunkirk, NY -
SAREP Youth Fly Fishing Program
Northern Chautauqua Environmental Fund, Dunkirk, NY - Canadaway Creek Conservation Project
2005 Northern Chautauqua Community Foundation, Dunkirk, NY
Instructional Incentive Award -State University of New York -
Fredonia, NY
Individual Development Award - State University of New York -
Fredonia, NY
2004 Scholarly Incentive Award -State University of New York - Fredonia, NY
2002 Student Assistantship Awards -State University of New York -Fredonia, NY
Individual Development Award - State University of New York - Fredonia, NY
2001 Student Assistantship Awards -State University of New York - Fredonia, NY
Individual Development Award - State University of New York - Fredonia, NY
2000 Special Opportunities Stipend - New York State Council for the Arts and Arts Council in Buffalo and Erie County, NY
1998 Scholarly Incentive Award - State University of New York - Fredonia, NY
PDQWL Development Award - State University of New York - Fredonia, NY
1995 Arts Council for Chautauqua County - Jamestown, NY
Scholarly Incentive Award - State University of New York - Fredonia, NY
1994 Classroom Scholarship Grant - State University of New York - Albany, NY
1993 Artists' Projects: New York State Regional Initiative - Pyramid Art Center, Rochester, NY and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Manhattan, NY Continuing Faculty Development Award - State University of New York - Fredonia, NY
1992 Scholarly Incentive Award - State University of New York - Fredonia, NY
1991 New Faculty Development Award - State University of New York- Fredonia, NY
1989 Professional Development Grant - State University of New York - Fredonia, NY
Scholarly Incentive Award - State University of New York - Fredonia, NY
1987 G.R.A.D. Research Grant - State University of New York - Buffalo, NY
Artist Space Grant - Artist Space, New York City, NY - exhibition funding

GALLERIES
Art Dialogue, Buffalo, NY
Chace-Randall Gallery, Andes, NY
Galeria Nina Menocal, Mexico City, Mexico
Gallup Contemporary Art, Sarasota, FL
Russell Jinishian Gallery, Fairfield, CT

REVIEWS AND MONOGRAPHS
Individual:
Renner, Kyle, "Artist Explores Humanity's Lost Connection With the Natural World", The Chautauquan Daily, Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, NY, July 30- 31, 2005.
Merkle, Karen Rene, "Ichthyologically Accurate", Erie Daily News, Erie, PA, May 26, 2005.
Huntington, Richard, " Exhibit of Regional Art has Big Range", Buffalo News, Buffalo, NY, May 9, 2005.
Jacoby-Patronski, Juliana, " Alberto Rey at Mid-Stream", Buffalo Spree, Buffalo, NY, April, 2005.
Proulx, Suzanne, "Piscatorial Investigations", ARTSCOPE, Erie, PA, Volume 7, Number 1, 2005.
Licata, Elizabeth, "Uncharted Waters", Buffalo Spree, Buffalo, NY November 2004.
Nyhuis, Philip, "Piscatorial Investigations - Best of WNY 2002 - Time in Chautauqua", Buffalo Spree, Buffalo, NY May/June, 2002.
Adams, Bruce, "Gone Fishing", Buffalo News, Gusto, Buffalo, NY October 26- November
Chauncey, Andrea," Pictorial stories from a far away land", Lamron, Geneseo, NY October 19, 2000.
Huntington, Richard, "A Rey of light, There's an icon-like quality to Big Orbit Gallery", Buffalo News, Buffalo, NY December 17, 1999.
Jackson-Foresberg, Eric, "Review: Alberto Rey, My Private Addiction to Lies". ARTVOICE, Buffalo, NY December 16-22,1999.
Plyler, Robert W.,"JCC's Alberto Rey Art Show Challenges People's Minds". Post Journal, Jamestown, NY December 10,1999.
Huntington, Richard, "Artist is working things out", Buffalo News, Buffalo, NY December 3, 1999.
Fox, Marilyn, "From old photographs, a Cuban creates identity". Reading Times/Eagle, Reading, PA November 1, 1997.
Hill, Sherri, "Alberto Rey: New Works". Sarasota Arts Review, Sarasota, FL. February, 1997.
Pignataro, Todd, "Creating a gallery of memories". Dunkirk Observer, Dunkirk, NY February 15th, 1997.
Altabe, Joan. "Solitary boats are powerful visual metaphor". Sarasota Herald- Tribune, Ticket, Sarasota, FL. January 10-16, 1997.
Black, Ophelia. "The year of living dangerously: Balsas and Madonnas", Sarasota Arts Review, Sarasota, FL. January 1997.
Moncada, Atriana. "El pincel, la lente, el cincel". Uno mas Uno, Mexico City, Mexico. March 18, 1996.
Federica Simon Miguel ."Memoria: Trabajos de Alberto Rey". MEDCOM, Mexico City, Mexico. Volume 50, March 1996.
"Alberto Rey en el Museo Schneider". El Espectador, Medford, OR. September 1995.
Courian, Christi and Arosteguy, Elena. "Realism to Abstraction: Artist display work in SOSC galleries." The Siskiyou, Ashland, OR. September 25, 1995.
Shea, Stephanie, "Artist explores his past through creation of 'cultural icons' ". Ashland Daily Tidings, Ashland, OR, September 1995
Huntington, Richard. "Reality Bites: Painter Rey challenges our habits of perception". Buffalo News, Buffalo, NY. May 19, 1995.
Worden, John. "Acts of devotion-Alberto Rey creates his Cuban Heritage in paintings of the mundane, monumenta". Democrat and Chronicle, Rochester, NY. October 20th, 1993.
Huntington, Richard. " Rey's art, too beautiful for its own good?", Buffalo News,
Buffalo,NY. September 30th,1992
Huntington, Richard. " The Persistence of Memory", Buffalo News, Buffalo, NY; November 2, 1990.
Silver, Joanne. "Painters' Object is to Examine the Symbols", Boston Herald,
Boston, MA; August 17,1990.
Sherman, Mary. "Summer Surprises on South Street", Boston Globe, Boston, MA:August 2, 1990.
Temin, Christine. "Perspectives", Boston Globe, Boston, MA; April 13,1989.
Silver, Joanne. "Gallery Scene", Boston Herald, Boston, MA; April 7, 1989.
Temin, Christine. "Romance is in the Galleries", Boston Globe,
Boston, MA; March 23, 1989.
Netsky, Ron. "Fresh Look at Expressionism", Democrat and Chronicle,
Rochester, NY; June 7, 1987.
Huntington, Richard. " Modernism Resist Fusion with Rey's Personal Symbols", Buffalo News, Buffalo, NY; May 8, 1987
"Performance Installation", Evening Observer, Dunkirk- Fredonia, NY; May 7,1987.
Giordano, Chris."At El Museo", Articles, Buffalo, NY; Spring 1986, Volume II. Boehm, Margo. " Rey and his Images 'float above' Memories", Monroe Doctrine, Rochester, NY; December 8, 1986.

Group:
(articles written which include the artist's work as part of an invitational or juried group exhibition)
Mitchell, Steve, "TRIMANIA!", Artvoice,Buffalo, NY: March 14, 2002.
Licata, Elizabeth, " A Setting Worthy of its Collection", Buffalo Spree, Buffalo, NY: March/April, 2002
Ormond, Mark, "Artists collage and box their ideasat the Mira Mar", Pelican Press, Sarasota, FL: January 17, 2002.
Bannon, Anthony, "Nine Artists Interpret their Ideas in an Exhibition on the "Natural World" , Chautauquan Daily, Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, NY: July 21-22, 2001.
Gregg, Gail, "The Unconventional Convention, The College Art Association's annual conference...", ARTnews, New York, NY April 2000.
McQuaid, Cate, "Viewing the Caribbean, in darkness and light", Boston Globe, Boston, MA; April 16, 1999.
Montminy, Judith, "Art Center show widens its world view", Boston Globe, Boston, MA; March 21, 1999.
Nelson, Roberta, "Cuban Art Exhibit Celebrates Diverse and Passionate Culture", Bradenton Herald, Brandenton, FL; September 20, 1998
Cotter, Holland,"One Museum, Five Shows and a Million Lives and Passions", New York Times, New York, NY; August 14,1998.
Tranberg, Dan, "Wide Open Places", Cleveland Free Times, Cleveland, OH; July 8-14,1998.
Litt, Steven, "Breaking the boundaries of the regionalism", The Plain Dealer, Cleveland, OH; July 5,1998.
Huntington, Richard, "Getting Crafty", Buffalo News, Buffalo,NY; June 28,1998.
Huntington, Richard, "Regional Forecast", Buffalo News, Buffalo,NY; June 12,1998.
Zimmer, William, "Echoes of the Cuban Cultural Experience", New York Times, New York, NY; February 2, 1997.
"Cuban American art exhibit opens at Walsh", Fairfield Citizen News, Fairfield, CT; January 10, 1997.
Bell, Stephen. "Seats of Power", Buffalo News Magazine, Buffalo, NY; September 22,1996
"Visitan el Corredor de la Roma". Reforma, Mexico City, Mexico. March 31, 1996.
Harrison, Helena A."Views of Cultures, Exotic and Near Home". New York Times, New York, NY. April 17,1994.
Lipson, Karin. "Defining Latino Artists by Works, Not Culture". Newsday, New York, NY. April 15,1994.
Crowley, Matthew. " It will make you think". The Post-Star, Albany, NY. January 20,1994.
Huntington, Richard. " Art without an edge 'In Western New York,' little nastiness", Buffalo News, Buffalo,NY. May 16th, 1993.
Darling, Reg. " Art at JCC's Forum Gallery shows lighter side of artists", Warren Times, Warren, PA. May 1992.
Donovan, Pat. "Assemblage of Aesthetics: In Western New York 1991", Art Voice, Buffalo, NY; Volume 2, Issue 10, May 15-18,1991.
Huntington, Richard. "Expressions Free of our Boundaries", Buffalo News, Buffalo, NY; May 12, 1991.
Licata, Elizabeth. "Personal Territory - Small Show, Wide Terrain", Buffalo News, Buffalo, NY; May 24, 1991.
Zamora, Jim Herron. "Christo's Umbrellas - Farm Workers...", Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, CA; October 7, 1991.
Meyer, Jennifer. "Spiritualism and emotion", The Leader, Fredonia, NY; November 5, 1990.
Netsky, Ron. "Fresh Look at Expressionism", Democrat and Chronicle, Rochester, NY; June 7, 1987.
"Adams Gallery Hosts 3-Man Exhibition", ARTIFACTS, Jamestown, NY; May 1987.
Netsky, Ron. "Artists Pick the Artists", Democrat and Chronicle, Rochester, NY; July 13, 1986.
"Artists' Choices", City Newspaper, Rochester, NY; July 3, 1986.
Lux, Heidi. "Artists Choose Artists - Personal Style Adds Spice to Show", Times Union, Rochester, NY; July 1986
Huntington, Richard. "Persona' Conjures Triad of Dubious Emotional Intensity", Buffalo News,
Buffalo, NY; February 26, 1986.
Netsky, Ron. "Expressionism the Watchword of the 1980's", Democrat and Chronicle,
Rochester, NY; June 8, 1985

PUBLICATIONS:
(books with essays and images about the artist's work)
2004
artwork and essays on my work in book, Dr. Lynnette Bosch, "Cuban-American Art in Miami", Lund Humphries - Ashgate Publishing, Hampshire, UK.
2002
artwork/bio included in a book, Maria Cristina Vives Gutierrez, "Memoria. Artes Visuales del Siglo XX" (Memory. Visual Artists of the 20th Century), California/International Arts Foundation, Los Angeles, CA 2002.
2001
artwork and biographical analysis included in book, Herrera, Andrea. "ReMembering Cuba: Legacy of a Diaspoa". Austin: University of Texas Press, 2001.
1994
artwork featured in a book, "New American Painting".(Opening Studios Press, Needham, MA) - curated by Elisabeth Sussman, Head Curator of the Whitney Museum, NY and Open Studio Press.

EXHIBITION PUBLICATIONS:
(exhibition catalogue or brochure from solo, invitational and juried group exhibitions)
Gracia, Jorge / Bosch, Lynette, "Negotiating Identies in Art, Literature, and Philosophy - Cuban Americans and American Culture". University of Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, 2006. http://philosophy.buffalo.edu/NEH06/index.html
Grachos, Louis, Carbone, Kristen, Dreishpoon,Douglas, "Beyond/ In Western
New York", Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY.
Drucker, Johanna, "Alberto Rey: New Naturalism", Abud Foundation for the Arts,
Lawrenceville, NY 2005.
Vanco, John, Proulx Suzanne, Bosch, Lynette, "Alberto Rey - Piscatorial
Investigations" , Erie Art Museum, Erie, PA.
Metz, Don, Bosch, Lynette, "Art on The Hyphen: Cuban-American Artists of Western
New York State", Burchfield-Center Art Center, Buffalo, NY, 2005.
Licata, Elizabeth, " Big Orbit Gallery: Ten Years of Spin on Western New York Art", Buffalo, NY
Prosek, James, " Trout Encounters", Adams Art Gallery, Dunkirk, NY
Bosch, Lynette, "Alberto Rey - Cuba: Image or Reality", Bertha Lederer Art Gallery, State University of
New York, Geneseo, NY
Drucker, Johanna, Kruck, Martin, Donaher, Sean, and Kellner, Sara, "My Private Addiction to Lies",
(exhibition catalog), Big Orbit Gallery and Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Buffalo, NY
Cusack, Nancy, " Uncommon Perspectives: Artists from the Caribbean", (exhibition catalog),
South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA.
Nieves, Marysol, "Histories (Re)membered: Selections from the Permanent Collection of the Bronx
Museum of Art", (exhibition brochure) PaineWebber Gallery, New York, NY
Channing, S., Kellner,S. and Horne, M., "Regional Forecast", (exhibition catalog), Space 101, Pittsburgh, PA, Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY, SPACES, Cleveland. OH, 1998
Santis, Jorge, "Breaking Barriers", (exhibition catalog), Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL 1998
Talley, Dan, "Silence and Darkness: Alberto Rey". (exhibition brochure), Kutztown University, Kutztown, NY 1997
Bosch , Lynette, "Crossing Borders".(exhibition catalog), St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY 1997
Bosch , Lynette, "PAST CUBA; Identity and Identification in Cuban American Art". (exhibition catalog), Thomas Walsh Gallery, Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT 1997
Marysol Nieves, "Amidst the Silence: Enrique Martinez Celaya and Alberto Rey".
(exhibition brochure), Bronx Museum of Art, Bronx, NY 1996
Markle, Greer. "Alberto Rey - Cultural Iconography". (exhibition brochure), Schneider Museum of Art, Ashland, OR. 1995
Olsen, Sandra. "Alberto Rey - The Incongruence of Memory" . (exhibition brochure), Castellani Art Museum, Niagara University, NY.
Isaacs,Susan. " 1994 Critics Residency" (catalog), Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY. 1994
Brutvan, Cheryl. " In Western New York, 1993" (exhibition catalog), Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY. May 1993.
Talley, Dan. "Alberto Rey" (exhibition catalog), INTAR, New York, NY. April,1993
Kellner, Sara. "The 2nd Skin" (exhibition brochure), Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo,NY. September,1992.
Talley, Dan. "Wit and Wisdom: Humor in Art" (exhibition catalog), Forum Art Gallery, Jamestown, NY. May 1992.
Brutvan, Cheryl. " In Western New York, 1991" (exhibition catalog), Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY. May 1991.
Talley, Dan. "Personal Territory - Artists of the Southern Tier" (exhibition catalog), Centre Gallery - Olean, NY, Forum Gallery - Jamestown, NY, Burchfield Art Center - Buffalo, NY. January, 1991.

ILLUSTRATED ARTICLES:
(articles published that were written and illustrated by the artist)
2006
(Forthcoming) "Towy River: Europe's Premier Sea Trout Fishery", Art of Angling Journal, Westborough, MA
(Forthcoming) "The Canadaway Creek: A Stream Running Through Hemlocks", Art of Angling Journal, Westborough, MA
2005
"Towy River: Europe's Premier sea Trout Fishery", Art of Angling Journal, Volume 3, Issue 2, Westborough, MA
"The Canadaway Creek: A Stream Running Through Hemlocks",Art of Angling Journal, Volume 2, Issue 4, Westborough, MA
"Searching for Solace", Buffalo Spree, Buffalo, NY, June 2005.
"The Cattaraugus Creek of western New York", Art of Angling Journal, Volume 3, Issue 1, Westboough, MA