Published Writing
“Weiss has pushed
the question of perforation further than ever before by beginning to disrupt the fixed logic of uniform repetition. Look at
the lower registers of Protector V (Veil), for example, where the sculpture begins to unravel. The governing order breaks
down, structure is besieged. The barrier leaks.”
— on Rachel Mica Weiss, 2024
Commissioned Texts
“Structure, Besieged,” essay for Rachel Mica Weiss: Cyclicalities, New York: Carvahlo Park, 2024.
“How Wondrous to Watch Ourselves,” in Amy Bennett: Shelter, exhibition catalogue, New York: Miles McEnery, 2024.
Updated artist entries for Hans Werner Holzwarth, ed., Modern Art (Cologne: Taschen, 2024). (forthcoming)
“Clare Grill: Wich Language,” press release, Los Angeles: M+B, 2024.
“Rachel Jacobs,” in Archive Connection, website text, Pasadena: Sam Francis Foundation, 2023.
“Painting of a Minor Key,” in Veronika Pausova: Fast Moving Sun, exhibition catalogue, Calgary: Esker Foundation, 2023.
“One and Three Grounds,” in Matt Kleberg: Grotto, exhibition catalogue, Houston: Josh Pazda Hiram Butler, 2023.
“Joani Tremblay: Intericonicity,” press release, New York: Harper’s Chelsea 512, 2023.
“Lumin Wakoa: Alive,” press release, New York: Harper’s Apartment, 2022.
“Lily Stockman: A Green Place,” press release, London: Almine Rech, 2022.
Alina Tenser and Fawn Krieger, exhibition catalogue, New York: Hesse Flatow, 2022.
“Alina Tenser: A Particular Kind of Embrace,” press release, New York: Hesse Flatow, 2022.
“Fawn Krieger: Mouth of the Cave,” press release, New York: Hesse Flatow, 2022.
“Like the Way Art Always Was” in Suzy Spence: Like Racing Smoke, exhibition catalogue, New York: Sears Peyton, 2022.
“Withness,” in Loie Hollowell: Recalibrate, exhibition catalogue, New York: Pace, 2021.
“To Turn, Obliquely,” in Leon Polk Smith: Prairie Moon, exhibition catalogue, New York: Lisson, 2021.
“The Persistence of Images,” in Henni Alftan, exhibition catalogue, New York: Karma, 2020. Second printing, 2023.
“Painting Opacity,” in Betty Parsons: Heated Sky, exhibition catalogue, New York: Alexander Gray, 2020.
“Friendship is a Solitude Split in Two,” in Un Art Autre, exhibition catalogue, London: Lévy Gorvy, 2019.
“Kevin Beasley,” “Sam Gilliam,” in Vitamin T: Threads and Textiles in Contemporary Art, Rebecca Morrill and Louisa Elderton (eds.), London: Phaidon Press, 2019.
“Huma Bhabha,” “Clare Twomey,” in Vitamin C: Contemporary Art, Ceramics and Clay, Rebecca Morrill and Louisa Elderton (eds.), London: Phaidon Press, 2017.
Book Project
Beside Painting is a scholarly monograph about American painter Sam Francis that examines abstract painting as a relational practice through the lens of the perceptual paradigms Francis engaged from 1950 to 1970: phenomenology, the psychology of aviation, and psychedelia. Based on extensive archival research, this book proposes painting as a non-hierarchical space of experimentation that encodes both Francis’s own embodied experience and the core principles of the perceptual models that he sought out as he moved through discrete bodies of work.
Peer-Reviewed Texts
“Sam Francis, Impairment, and the Embodied Experience of Difference,” in Suzanne Hudson and Tanya Sheehan (eds.), Modernism, Art, Therapy (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2024).
“Space Without Place: Francis’s Travel Paintings,” in Natalie Adamson (ed.), In Focus: Around the Blues 1957–60 by Sam Francis, Tate Research Publication (July 2019).
“The New Arts Society: Failed Radicals,” Getty Research Journal 11 (2019), 81–106.
“Sculpted Glyphs: Egypt and the Musée Charles X,” Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide 13, no. 1 (Spring 2014). A digital humanities project funded by the Mellon Foundation. Won the Nineteenth Century Studies Association Article Prize, 2015.
Interviews
“Ronald Davis,” Studio International, February 2024.
“Within Reach” with Brendan Fernandes, Brooklyn Rail New Social Environment, December 2023.
“Revisiting 5+1” with Howardena Pindell and Adger Cowans, Brooklyn Rail New Social Environment, February 2023.
“Angela Heisch,” Studio International, August 2021.
“John Van Hamersveld,” ifacontemporary, February 2015.