Writing

I’ve been writing about art and culture since 2008. My exhibition reviews, interviews, and essays have been published in Artforum, Art in America, BOMB, Frieze, The Los Angeles Review of Books, and Momus, among others. This work has also been cited in recent books such as Conflict, Trauma, and the Media; Landscapes of Liminality: Between Space and Place; Anything But Mexican: Chicanos in Contemporary Los Angeles; and Emancipation's Daughters: Reimagining Black Femininity and the National Body. As a 2015–2016 and 2016–2017 Fulbright Fellow in Warsaw, I wrote about contemporary art where it intersected explicitly with the deprivations of Eastern European Communism and the rise of ultra-right-wing Polish politics. I am a 2020 Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grantee, and in 2021 I guest-edited the final thematic issue of SFMOMA’s Open Space magazine.

Selected recent publications:

“Fabiola Menchelli: Time Slips in the Darkness,” BOMB Magazine, February 26, 2025
”Rebecca Marimutu at Blue Sky,” Artforum, vol. 62, no. 3, November 2023
”Jaleesa Johnston: Knowledge in the Body,” Center for Art Research, University of Oregon, Fall 2023
”SCUMB: Justine Kurland,” BOMB Magazine, September 27, 2023
”Bonnie Lucas at ILY2,” Artforum, vol. 61, no. 10, Summer 2023
”Parts of a Landscape: The Career and Practice of Rita Robillard,” catalog essay for Rita Robillard: Time and Place, Hallie Ford Museum of Art, January 2023
”Getting Inside Srijon Chowdhury’s Head,” Art in America, October 7, 2022
”Taking Stock: A DIY Guide,” SFMOMA's Open Space, November 8, 2021
”Seeing Visual Artists: A Portland Pandemic Report,” Center for Arts Research, University of Oregon, November 1, 2021
”To Orient by Closer Stars,” SFMOMA's Open Space, October 12, 2021
”The News According to Bruce Burris,” catalog essay for Bruce Burris: A Shrine for a Shrine, Schneider Museum of Art, October 4, 2021
”Jess Perlitz's Tragicomic Practice,” Center for Arts Research, University of Oregon, September 2021
”Questioning Success: Reading and Thinking Together,” Center for Arts Research, University of Oregon, September 2021
”An Atmosphere of Threat: Betty Tompkins Interviewed by Bean Gilsdorf,” BOMB Magazine, September 24, 2021
”Tannaz Farsi: Constant Shift,” Full Bleed issue 5, June 2021
”New Images for an Old Struggle: Jacob Lawrence at Seattle Art Museum,” Variable West, May 20, 2021
”Say It With Flowers,” catalog essay for Amy Bay: Blush, Melanie Flood Projects, April 23, 2021
”Mark R. Smith: Notions at Elizabeth Leach Gallery,” Textile: The Journal of Cloth and Culture, April 6, 2021
”Wide Open Spaces: Pacifico Silano Emancipates His Gay Erotica,” Momus, November 16, 2020
”Documenting the Changing Self: Melanie Flood at Fourteen30 Contemporary,” Variable West, November 12, 2020
”Guerrilla Girls: The Art of Behaving Badly,” Another Chicago Magazine, September 30, 2020
”Storm Tharp’s Cinematic View of Everyday Life,” Frieze, September 24, 2020
”Power and Protest: A Studio Visit with Ellen Lesperance,” Full Bleed, May 21, 2020
”Katherine Bradford Dreams of Intimacy,” Frieze, May 7, 2020
”Portland’s Artist-Run Spaces Thrive Under the Radar,” Art in America, December 12, 2019
”Auspicious Conflagrations: The Heat of Women’s Anger,” Los Angeles Review of Books, November 2, 2019
”Deerhide and Polyester: Natalie Ball Crafts Monuments to Indigenous Resistance,” Art in America, September 30, 2019
”Riddles for Minds and Bodies,” Art in America, November 1, 2018
”With Regard to Cleveland,” SFMOMA's Open Space, September 27, 2018
”The Hand That Holds the Rod,” SFMOMA's Open Space, April 11, 2018
”The Best Museum in the World,” SFMOMA's Open Space, March 14, 2018
”Sewing Lessons,” SFMOMA's Open Space, February 14, 2018
”Palliative Care,” SFMOMA's Open Space, January 17, 2018
”Lutz Bacher at 3320 18th Street,” Artforum, August 29, 2017
”Sarah Lucas at Legion of Honor,” Artforum, August 20, 2017
”Justin John Greene at Jessica Silverman Gallery,” Frieze, July 18, 2017
”Sharon Lockhart: Rudzienko at Foksał Gallery Foundation,” Frieze, January 24, 2017
”Jarosław Kozłowski: Sensations of Reality and Conceptual Practices 1965–1980 at MOCAK,” Artforum, January 23, 2017
”If You Don’t Know Me By Now, You Will Never Never Never Know Me at Fundacja Arton,” Daily Serving, October 6, 2016
”This Difficulty: A Conversation with Ivo Dimchev,” SFMOMA's Open Space, September 6, 2016
”Frames and Implications: Andrea Fraser’s Official Welcome (2001–3),” CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, July 28, 2016
”De-Mo-Kra-Cja at Galeria Labirynt,” Frieze, July 15, 2016
”In-between,” exhibition catalog for Between Worlds, Arc Gallery, San Francisco, July 2016
”The Travellers at Zachęta National Gallery of Art,” Artforum, June 23, 2016
”Slavs and Tatars at Raster,” Artforum, June 13, 2016
”Alina Szapocznikow: Human Landscape(s) at Galerie Loevenbruck,” Daily Serving, May 20, 2016
”Art Beyond Art: Making Use at the Museum of Modern Art,” Warsaw, The Exhibitionist, April 26, 2016
”Quickscan NL #02 at Nederlands Fotomuseum,” Artforum, April 22, 2016
”Cesary Poniatowski: No Center No Edges at Piktogram Gallery,” Daily Serving, April 21, 2016
”Jens Fänge at Galerie Perrotin Paris,” Artforum, March 23, 2016
”Bread and Roses: Artists and the Class Divide at MoMA Warsaw,” Artforum, March 21, 2016
”Ludmiła Popiel at Fundacja Arton,” Daily Serving, February 11, 2016
”Anna Konik at Centre for Contemporary Art–Ujazdowski Castle,” Artforum, January 29, 2016