Selected WRiting
Valentine, TX. May 2024.
2026
Heaven, Hell, and H-E-B, Southwest Contemporary, March (forthcoming)
Victoria Sambunaris: Terra Infirma, Aperture, March
2025
Calm on the Surface, text for Dan Attoe’s Calm on the Surface at Andrew Reed Gallery, Miami, FL, October
Texas is, in fact, not that big at all, text for Hannah Spector’s if you stare at a cowboy’s face for long enough, it turns into a sunset at Women & Their Work, Austin, TX, September
Time Zero, Southwest Contemporary, March
The New Art of Atomic Critique, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, February
2024
On Rick Silva, I Am Alive, The Ford Family Foundation, University of Oregon, October
Mallery Quetawki: Circulatory Systems + Translational Aesthetics, Southwest Contemporary, September
The Whitney Biennial Turns Its Attention to the West, High Country News, June
Florida, Man: Robert Smithson’s Hypothetical Continent in Shells, Lemuria, Holt/Smithson Foundation, January
2023
Critics’ Picks: María Korol’s “Bichos,” Artforum, October
What Downwinders Inherited at Trinity, High Country News, August
Distant Viridian Crush, text for Claire Ashley’s Distant Viridian Crush at Padnos Gallery, Allendale, MI, January
2022
When Angels Deserve to Die: An Interview with Bridget Moser, Glasstire, December
Bottled Lightning: De Maria, McCarthy, Melville, and the Confidence-Men of Web3, Art in America, November
Puppet Master: An Interview with Jayson Musson, Artforum, September
Texas Messiahs / Act One / Cognitive Dissonance, Glasstire, July
Texas Messiahs / Act Two / Judd Meridian, Glasstire, July
Happy Trails: High Desert Test Sites 2022, Artforum, July
Review: Elvia Wilk’s Death By Landscape, High Country News, July
TIME is a Flat Circle, text for Spencer Longo’s TIME at King’s Leap, New York, NY, July
Hurt Locker: The Sublime Stupidity of Jackass Forever, Artforum, February
BACK\SLASHER (excerpts), Do Not Research, February
2021
A Complicated Elegy: Nicolo Gentile and John Knight at GCADD, Humor and the Abject, September
Literally, Yes: An Interview with Michelle Ellsworth, Museum of Pocket Art Catalogue, El Museo del Barrio Triennial
Ground Control: Land Art and American Entropy, Artforum, July
American Warehouse: DIY Undergrounds & Urban Displacement, Harvard Urban Review, June
Contested Terrain in Oakland, Artforum, April
Denver DIY vs Beast Mode Capitalism, Art in America, January
2020
River Ramirez: Making Community Look Easy, Even Remotely, Art in America, August
What Happened to the Musical Acts that Defined the Art World in the Aughts? Art in America, June
Ten Must-Know Art Bands of the Aughts, Art in America, June
Precarity, Precedents, and the Pandemic Pivot: Fusebox Goes Virtual, Glasstire, April
Gareth Long at the Blaffer Museum, Art in America, February
2019
An Art World Glossary for a Turbulent Decade (“Precariat”), Art in America, December
Glasstire’s Best of 2019, Glasstire, December
Avant-Garde Populism: Jan Hakon Erichsen, Art in America, October
Lily Cox-Richard at the Blanton Museum, Art in America, October
First Look: James Allister Sprang, Art in America, October
Interview with Dave Culpepper, Glasstire, October
“Hauntings”: Shana Hoehn at Women & Their Work, Glasstire, August
Catastrophic Theatre’s “Speeding Motorcycle,” Glasstire, July
Dark Eco-Comedy: Austin’s Fusebox Festival, Art in America, May
“M*A*S*H”: Alexis Mabry and Steef Crombach at Co-Lab Projects, Glasstire, May
Natalie Frank’s Grimm Fairy Tales in Austin, Glasstire, April
Installation as Choreography: Janine Antoni in Austin, Art in America, March
First Look: Ariel René Jackson, Art in America, February
Dear Bruce: A Letter from a Fan, Art in America, January
2018
Sink or Sink: Mel Chin in Times Square, Art in America, July
Unspared Audience: American Realness at Abrons Arts Center, Art in America, February
The Practical Precariat, Art in America, February
2017
Taking Up Space: An Interview with the Wood Land School, Art in America, October
First Look: Andrew Ross, Art in America, October (Print Only)
Watching a Comedy Revolution in Real Time, FOUNDATIONS, September (Print Only)
Brian Belott: “Dr Kid President Jr” at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, Art in America, September
5 Worthy Artist-Run Spaces Outside Art Market Capitals, artnet News, August
Alan Resnick’s Jocose Juggling Act, Humor and the Abject, July
First Look: David Leggett, Art in America, June (Print Only)
Total Proof: The Gala Committee 1995-1997, Art in America, January
2016
First Look: Antonia Wright, Art in America, September (Print Only)
“MAMI” at the Knockdown Center, VICE, August
Life of a Craphead: A Performance Art Group Gets Buggy, VICE, June
A Leotard for All Occasions: Erin Markey on YouTube, Art in America, April
First Look: Erin Markey, Art in America, March
2015
Michael Smith at Greene Naftali, Art in America, October
Why Do Artists Love Comedy?, “LAFF BOX,” Showroom MAMA, Rotterdam, September (Print Only)
Site-Specific Comedy, Art in America, June
The USC Roski Fiasco, artnet News, June
Black Market Art Fair, VICE, May
Takashi Murakami at Gagosian, Art in America, February
Tim Heidecker Hates Terrorism, VICE, February
James Allister Sprang: A Hip-Hop Polymath, VICE, January
2014
Fuck the Dark Net: Here’s the Soft Net, VICE, July
Kim Gordon and Raymond Pettibon Are Fucking Depressing, VICE, June
Extreme Animals: The Urgency, VICE, June
Oscar Murillo at David Zwirner, VICE, May
Allan Kaprow Translated from English to America, VICE, April