"Witnessing the Unseen: Lawre Stone's Vegetal Turn" catalog essay
HUDSON, NY - Catalog essay for Lawre Stone’s exhibition Siren at Tanja Grunert Gallery, Hudson, NY, 2024. Essay and catalog were funded through NY State Council on the Arts regrant, administered by Create Council on the Arts for Stone’s project Invasive Beauty: Painting the Displaced Species of Columbia County, NY...
(1,565 words)With 'Teddy Sandoval and the Butch Gardens School of Art,' the elders are getting a chance to speak
WILLIAMSTOWN, MA - WCMA exhibition highlights the work of long-overlooked queer and Chicanx artist...
(749 words)Robin Frohardt at MASS MoCA
NORTH ADAMS, MA - Robin Frohardt’s The Plastic Bag Store (on view through November 3, 2024; advance reservations required) is sculptural-objects-turned-installation theater. A satire set in four acts, it begins as a deeply uncanny and unsettling grocery store experience...
(720 words)"Queer Elegies and Climate Mourning: Marc Swanson’s 'Memorial to Ice at the Dead Deer Disco'"
CATSKILL, NY - Essay awarded the 2022 Toni Beauchamp Prize in Critical Art Writing by Legacy Russell, published by Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts, Summer/Fall 2023, v. 35, i. 2
" A thoughtful piece that embeds tender and timely questions on the intersections of mourning and desire, and where each finds its place through radical queer work." - Legacy Russell, juror & author of Glitch Feminism...
(1,415 words)MCLA Gallery 51's 'Reflecting Ecologies' focuses on the artists' very personal relationships with nature
NORTH ADAMS — “Reflecting Ecologies: Artists in Nature,” MCLA Gallery 51’s current group show features six artists engaged with nature as observers, interpreters and witnesses.
It’s a tender exhibition that never slips into the sometimes twee or reductive tropes about nature....
(1,207 words)'Women Reframe American Landscape' celebrates women artists of the Hudson River School with historical and contemporary works
CATSKILL, NY — Two significant corrections to the Western art canon happened last week.
British art historian and curator Katy Hessel’s “The Story of Art Without Men” was released in the United States on May 2. The 512-page book is a broad survey that only just begins the work of uncovering the groundbreaking contributions women have made to visual art since the 1500s...
(1,033 words)Janet Rickus paints the objects that are connected to our daily lives
GREAT BARRINGTON, MA - The earliest recorded still life paintings date back more than two millennia and are referred to as Xenia, a Greek word meaning a specific kind of generous hospitality extended toward houseguests...
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