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My essay on Philip Guston that was in the December 2020 issue of ARTFORUM.
“I wonder if people know that when they are talking about an artwork, they are actually talking about themselves.”
I wrote this essay for the exhibition, Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle. This exhibition featured the little-seen series of paintings—"Struggle: From the History of the American People" (1954–56)—by the iconic American modernist. The exhibition reunites the multi-paneled work for the first time in more than half a century.
Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle Through April 26 at the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Mass. pem.org. The exhibition will come to the Phillips Collection in Washington from June 26 to Sept. 1, 2021, after stops at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Birmingham Museum of Art in Alabama and the Seattle Art Museum.
An essay I wrote for HYPERALLERGIC in 2016 about the origins of the installation A Partial List of Unarmed African-Americans who were Killed By Police or Who Died in Police Custody During My Sabbatical from Massachusetts College of Art and Design, 2014-2015, 2016
Back in 2014, I was talking to David Cohen about how much I loved the restrospective show, Robert Gober: The Heart is not a Metaphor. After that conversation, he asked me to write about the show
An essay about the importance of magazine stands in the development of a young artists. From an issue of ART PAPERS guest edited by Dushko Petrovich.