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We began a series of real estate ventures in the Bay Area and then, later, in Marysville and Sacramento. We designed and built a house on Honcut Creek, Butte County.
Reich continued to paint and draw in all the environments we encountered during this long, often difficult period of transition.
He kept working, but he was no longer in the midst of an art world as he had been in Sacramento and the Bay Area, and this was not a consistently productive period for him. He was working mainly in abstraction, but did some striking portraits.

Prison

In the late 1980s and 1990s, Reich was hired to teach watercolor and pastel drawing at Folsom and other state prisons.
The effect of the prison world and other personal factors was to send Reich into an expressionist period, unusual for him.


Play of Silence, 1994

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Untitled, 1989

Victoria Dalkey reported that he demonstrated drawing and watercolor techniques for the inmates by doing “spontaneous, surreal works that reflected on his emotional states…a kind of visual diary…notations of his experiences in a stark and inhospitable environment.”
Reviewing a show at the Sakato Garo in Sacramento in 2005, Dalkey tried to puzzle out the meaning of what she took to be symbolic images. She saw the human psyche in the rudimentary houses and humans’ animal element in a black horse. She spotted Reich’s collection of gimcracks and gewgaws in some of the pictures and said they created an air of “whimsical reverie.”

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