"Pleasants has continued to explore the subject of house and home by constructing simple structures out of

straw, bamboo, clay, jute and in one exquisite gesture, marigolds rooted in topsoil atop stacked bales of grass.

These pieces embody a more complex metaphor of whatwe understand as home." -Laura Hoptman, catalog essay

"Pleasants has gone beyond the finger wagging of most political art by making his audience acknowledge the

aesthetic sincerity and complexity of these works. Spare and beautiful, the pieces call to mind a Shaker

sensibility. Though non-functional, they incorporate functional aspects of the home environment to question

our preconceptions of what constitutes a house, shelter, or sanctuary." -Paula Owen, ArtPapers

"Plastic Memory" Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post Jan.2, 2004.

“Thirty Years: Three Decades of New Art at Second Street Gallery”, Catherine Malone, C’ville Magaqzine,

December, 2003.

“Preview” NC Museum of Art, Jan/Feb 2001 Introspective Installations.

“In the Dark on Guardhouses” Raleigh News and Observer, October 23, 2000.

"Interiors" catalog essay, published by the North Carolina Museum of Art, July 2000.

"Carbon and Oxygen" Second Street Gallery, catalog essay, Laura Hoptman, curator, Museum of Modern Art, April, 1999.

"Un/Common Ground; Virginia Artists 1996" Art Papers, July/August, 1996. Dinah Ryan.

"Richmond offers common ground for uncommon show" The Daily Progress, Charlottesville, VA, April 18, 1996.

p. D1. Ruth Latter.

"Un/Common Art" Style Weekly March 12, 1996, p. 27. Paulette Roberts-Pullen.

"Virginia Unites on 'Un/Common Ground' Daily Press Newport News, VA, March 10, 1996. Mark St. John

Erickson.

"Committed to Memory"; Richmond Times Dispatch, March 5, 1996. Sibella C. Giorello.

"Un/common Ground" Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, catalog essay, Julia Boyd. March, 1996

"Craig Pleasants: Dwelling" ArtPapers, July/August, 1995. Paula Owens.

"Footnotes for an argument in favor of marginal housing" The Print Collector's Newsletter May/June 1995

Artist's Book Beat, p. 72 Nancy Princenthal.

"A Meditation on homelessness" Hard Times, Richmond. February-March, 1995.

"Art in View" review V magazine, March 1995. Ann Weinstein.

"Dwelling" The Progressive, 1995

"Les visiteurs" La Marseillaise February 3, 1995. Angelique Schaller.

"Pleasants constructs commentary and more" The Richmond Times Dispatch, February 2, 1995.

p. D5 CeCe Bullard.

"Artist hopes to open minds with homelessness exhibit" The News and Advance, Lynchburg, Virginia,
January 27, 1995, C1. Theresa D. Boyes.

"De l'art de regarder Marseille" Le Monde January 26, 1995. Philippe Dagen.

"Un Art Engagé?" TakTik January 1-8, 1995. Yves Gerbal.

Les Visiteurs Catalogue, Musee d'Art Contemporain, Marseille. January, 1995. Philippe Vergne.

"The Three Little Pigs" Umbrella magazine December, 1995 vol. 17, no. 3/4

"The Three Little Pigs" The Print Collectors Newsletter November/December 1994, Artist's

Book Beat, p. 194 Nancy Princenthal

"Options 93" review ArtPapers September/October, 1993. p.41. Megan Hamilton.

"Beds a metaphor for plight of homeless" Richmond Times-Dispatch, April 13, 1993, CeCe

 Bullard.

"Which Old House" Style Weekly, May 10, 1993, Paulette Roberts-Pullen.

"Options 1993" Catalogue, Washington Project for the Arts January, 1993, Don Russell,

Angela Adams.

"It's Politically Correct, but Is It Art?" Washington Post, January 31, 1993 Paul Richard.

"Good Works" City Paper, February, 1993 Rex Weil.

"Artist as Activist" Style Weekly, September 1, 1992 Paulette Roberts-Pullen.

"No Vote for the Homeless" Throttle Magazine, September-October, 1992. Karrie Mills.

"Contingencies" Caprice, September, 1992, p.43. Harriet Zinnes.

"Voice Centerfold Choices" Village Voice, June 16, 1992. Kim Levin.

"Sculpture Show Bounces with Life", Charlottesville Observer, May 1992. Stephen Marguiles.

"In the eye of the beholder" The Baltimore Sun, April 19, 1992.

"Home" Baltimore City Paper, April 15, 1992. Eileen Murphy.

"Sculpture featured in May show", Charlottesville Observer Magazine, April 30 - May 6,

1992.

"Home uneven home" Baltimore City Paper, May 15, 1992.

"'Home' isn't quite where the heart is" The Baltimore Sun, May 5, 1992. John Dorsey.

"Home", Washington Review , Vol. XVII, No. 6, April/ May 1992. Lee Fleming.

"Where the Heart Is", The Washington Post, February 29, 1992. Mary McCoy.

"A Home With A View", The Washington Post, Weekly February 27, 1992. p.1.

Home, catalogue, Arlington Arts Center, January 1992. Judy Byron et. al.

"Craig Pleasants", Art Papers, November-December 1989.

"Clarity and Displacement: Craig Pleasants at the Upstairs Artspace", The Arts Journal, September 1989.

Craig Pleasants, catalogue, The Upstairs Artspace, essay by Bill Arning, August 1989.

Selections from the Artists' File, catalogue, Artists Space, November 1988.

Update 1987-1988, catalogue, White Columns, June 1988. Bill Arning.

"Mind/Matter", Voice Centerfold Choices Village Voice, January 20, 1987. Kim Levin.

"Big Art: Searching for a Complete Environment" The Chapel Hill Newspaper Sun. August 8, 1976 p.A1

Jim Beamguard.