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ArtScope, New England’s Culture Magazine, December 2008 Edition, Review of Thoreau Reconsidered at the Concord Art Association, Concord, MA by Roanna Forman. Full color reproduction of A Walking Life, page 30
Hunger Mountain Review, “Winter Walk” reproduced on the cover. Winter 2008 Edition.
Air Fare Art Review: Burlington International Airport, Seven Days: Vermont’s Independent Voice, Review by Marc Awodey, June 11, 2008
“Modern Ripples From Walden Pond”, The New York Times, Review by Benjamin Genocchio, January 22, 2007
Art Forum. Com, Critics Picks, Thoreau Reconsidered, June, 2007, By Colby Chamberlain
Sculpture Magazine, Capsule Review, Thoreau Revisited, Summer 2007
The Burlington Free Press, “Public Art Team Chosen, Painter Gottsegen and Landscape Architect Boyle to Head Design Effort”, May 9, 2007
The Burlington Free Press, “South Burlington to Choose Public Art Winner”, May 1, 2007
The Burlington Free Press, “Public Art Competition Draws Great Interest”, April 30, 2007
The Pelican Press, “KBG Annual x2”, April 9, 2007, page 6B with color reproduction
The New Colonist, A Web Magazine about city living. 02/28/2007: "South Burlington Launches Public Art Initiative"
Vermont Sunday Magazine, November 12, 2006, “Dan Gottsegen, Paintings at the Vermont Arts Council”, by Anne Galloway.
The Standard Times, New Bedford, MA, June 1, 2006, Coastin’ Section, Page 12. Review “The Lay of the Land”.
Vermont Standard, March 2, 2006, Page C1. “Woodstock Artist Blends Nature, Art In His Work”, By Richard Radford
ARTSMEDIA, May/June 2005, Reproduction of “Where The Wood Drake Rests”, page 4.
The Lowell Sun, May 5, 2005, page S8. By Nancy Tuttle, “Stepping Out At The Galleries”, with color reproduction.
Lowell Sun, June, 2005, Review by John Greenwald, Review of the Whistler Hous Museum Show
New American Paintings, number 13, December, 1997. The Open Studio Press, Wellesley, MA. Three paintings reproduced in color on two-page spread, pg. 42-43.
California Wild Magazine, Fall 1997, pages 10-18. “Soaring with the Hawks” by Peter Steinhart Click here to read an excerpt from this article.
For the full article on the California Wild web site click here.
Artweek, June 1996, volume 27, Number 6. Review of Natural Phenomena: Exploring the Wonders of Nature by Mary Hull Webster
Diablo Arts Magazine, April - June,1996, page 26. Reproduction page 27. Article by Matt Peiken.
The Oakland Tribune, Monday, April 1, 1996, page B5. “Natural’ Selection’ ‘Natural Phenomena” Exhibit Takes A Powerful Look At The Order And Beauty Of Nature. Review by Jolene Thym
The Contra Costa Times, Friday, April 5, 1996. Time Out Section, page 1. Works Capture Birds Of Prey. Article by Anita Amirrezvani
The Walnut Creek Journal, April 11, 1996, page 1. Art Takes On Natural Look At Bedford, Exhibit Explores the Forces of Nature. Article by Andrew Gordon
The Ledger Dispatch, Antioch, California, April 10, 1996, page C1. Exhibit Casts Nature in A Different Light, Review by Laura Orella
The Rossmoor News, April 10, 1996, page 1.
The Chico Enterprise-Record, January 29, 1995. page 3B. Review by Michele French.
The Chico New and Review, February 2, 1995. page 38. Review by Mabrie Ormes (with installation photograph).
The Concord Transcript, Thursday, September 29, 1994. page 5A Review by Kristin Bender.
The Contra Costa Times, Friday, September 16, 1994. page 22. Review by Carol Fowler.
Zyzzyva, The Last Word in West Coast Artist and Writers, Volume 9, Number 3, Fall, 1993. Self-portrait on page 68.
Pacific Raptor Report, Winter 1991: Cover Illustration.
The San Francisco Chronicle, June 8, 1988: "Off the Studio Wall" Review by Kenneth Baker.
Artweek, April 26, 1988: Review by Mark van Proyen
The Pacific Sun, June 19-25, 1987: Review by Rebecca Solnit
The San Francisco Chronicle, July 25, 1986. Review by Kenneth Baker
Catalogue Hoyt National Drawing and Painting Show, New Castle, PA. 1984
Catalogue Western Region Print, Painting, and Drawing Exhibition, Southern Oregon State College, Ashland, OR. 1984
From California Wild Magazine, Fall 1997, Soaring With The Hawks, by Peter Steinhart:
"...What is it about hawks that stirs us? Every hawk watcher has an answer: freedom, power, the grace of their flight. But one suspects that there is a deeper meaning, something that reaches back to the tradition that hawks have access to the heavens. It is, says Fish <the Golden Raptor Observatory Director>. "the big view, the broad view. I think people climb mountains because (hey get a broad view of their lives. I'm sure everybody on Hawk Hill who looks up at a raptor is doing a reflective exchange, thinking what it would be like to be up there looking down."
What the hawk would be seeing down below is the clash between nature and urbanity—between belonging and alienation. At least some hawk watchers see it this way. For eight years, Dan Gottsegen, an artist, has been a GGRO volunteer bander. He had been painting hawks in some pictures, but those pictures didn't seem right and never left his studio. Then he began to think more about what drew him to the birds.
"I've been thinking about diaspora and migration," he says. Each generation in Gottsegen's family has moved to a new place. It's a very California experience, for most Californians have come from somewhere else. "California and the West are particularly rootless," says Gottsegen. "My generation in this country has been trying to find a sense of place/'
He thinks hawks have that sense of place. "Even though hawks move and migrate and they are above a place, at the same time, they are so much of a place. When you've banded a hawk and are holding it, you're aware that they have a pure intention, unencumbered by doubt." He believes that purity of intention is what a human would have if he or she felt a real connection to place.
In many of Gottsegen's paintings, hawks have become emblems of human migration, but in at least one, he has managed to paint this hawkish purity of intention, this sense of belonging. He had a series of dreams that recalled the story of Jacob in the Bible. The story tells how God commanded Isaac to move into a new land, and how, years later, his sons Jacob and Esau contended for his favor. Jacob was sent by his father to Pandamariin to find a wife, and on the way, lie slept on the ground, with stones for a pillow. He dreamt of a ladder with angels ascending; to heaven and descending again, "and Behold, the Lord stood above it and said I am the Lord God.... The land whereon thou liest. to thee I will give it and thy sccd. And behold I am with thee and will keep thee in all places wither thou goest. and will bring thee again into this land."
The way Gottsegen dreamt and painted it he slept on a pillow ot hawk feathers. and those were hawks soaring into the heavens and diving earthward. And he awoke to hear the voice say, "This will be your place."