"Most of them are working in styles that seem derived from William Eggleston and/or Nan Goldin, with Roe Ethridge and Pete Riesett taking an exceptionally clear-eyed, weirdly reverent view of the everyday..."
- Vince Aletti, from The Village VOICE review of Bystander

"...still-life photos that question the sacred, profane, or mundane status of objects, like Pete Riesett's diminutive plastic snowman in a Snowman in a Red Field, 2001..."
- Martha Schwendener, from ARTFORUM review of Bystander

"There are still lifes from Pete Riesett, side-by-side shots of suburban dining room cabinets in which the good china is interspersed the souvenir tchotchkes".
- Holland Cotter, from The New York Times review of Bystander

"Pete Riesett's photographic documentation of domestic tableaux of refrigerator magnets collected from tourist locations and other low art collecting pursuits present cultural cliche as cumulative pathos".
- Tom McGlynn, from the catalogue essay, Surface Considerations