Art and Book Reviews
For complete lists of my art and book reviews, scroll to the bottom of this page.
Selected Art Reviews
Installation view: Chloë Bass: The Parts, Brooklyn Public Library, New York, 2021. Courtesy Brooklyn Public Library. Photo: Gregg Richards.
Chloë Bass: The Parts
Brooklyn Public Library Central Library, and Center For Brooklyn History, May 8 – September 20, 2021, reviewed in the Brooklyn Rail, July – August 2021.
Lucas Samaras, Untitled, 2019. [Image description: A digital collage combining colorful gradients, mirrored photographic images of city buildings, and a black-and-white baby portrait,]
Lucas Samaras: Me, Myself, and…
Pace Gallery, New York, January 17 – February 22, 2020, reviewed in the Brooklyn Rail, February 2020.
John Ashbery, Bingo Beethoven, 2014. [Image description: A collage on an orange vintage Bing board with images of Beethoven scattered across it.]
John Ashbery: The construction of fiction
Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York, September 21 – November 14, 2018, reviewed in the Brooklyn Rail, November 2018.
Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Untitled, 1989. [Image description: A black billboard with two rows of white text standing on top of a building against a blue sky in New York City’s Sheridan Square at Christopher Street and Seventh Avenue.]
Felix Gonzalez-Torres: Untitled (1989)
Public Art Fund, Sheridan Square, New York, June 4 – July 28, 2019, reviewed in the Brooklyn Rail, July 2019.
Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Mirror Study, 2016. [Image description: A photograph of a photograph cut in the middle and adhered to a mirror, in which the artist’s arms are visible taking the photo, creating a play of frames and arms of the subjects of these portraits.]
Paul Mpagi sepuya: Figures, Grounds, and stuies
Yancey Richardson, New York, February 2 – March 18, 2017, reviewed in the Brooklyn Rail, March 2017.
The cover of the exhibition Prison Nation’s companion issue of Aperture. [Image description: An Aperture magazine cover in an orange wash, with a centered aerial photo of a prison complex with a dark orange square superimposed over the center of it.]
Prison Nation
Aperture Foundation, New York, February 7 – March 8, 2018, reviewed in Hyperallergic, February 23, 2018.
Installation view: Simone Fattal, kaufmann repetto, New York. [Image description: A small white-walled gallery dotted with numerous plinths on which sit small stoneware sculptures.]
Simone fattal
kaufmann repetto, New York, February 23 – April 8, 2017, reviewed in the Brooklyn Rail, April 2017.
Selected Book Reviews
![Dorothea Lange’s Day Sleeper, edited with an afterward by Sam Contis (MACK, 2020). [Image description: An image of a book with a black-and-white photo of a shirtless boy, lying in full sunlight with his eyes covered with cloth.]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6f1850b10598f1f5c4425c/1609395166516-45K6P4SMC2LVD02XUM6C/Screen+Shot+2020-12-31+at+1.12.33+AM.png)
Dorothea Lange’s Day Sleeper, edited with an afterward by Sam Contis (MACK, 2020). [Image description: An image of a book with a black-and-white photo of a shirtless boy, lying in full sunlight with his eyes covered with cloth.]
Day Sleeper
I selected a collection of photos by Dorothea Lange, edited by Sam Contis, as my pick for Best Art Book of 2020, for a feature in the Brooklyn Rail, December 2020.
![Rosemary Mayer, Snow People, 1979. [Image description: A small, snowy field marked by tall, slender snow people, labeled with names printed on small black signs placed at their bases.]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6f1850b10598f1f5c4425c/1609396185799-N5Z1M33TAKG2ISCUE8GC/Screen+Shot+2020-12-31+at+1.26.44+AM.png)
Rosemary Mayer, Snow People, 1979. [Image description: A small, snowy field marked by tall, slender snow people, labeled with names printed on small black signs placed at their bases.]
Temporary Monuments: Work by Rosemary Mayer, 1977-1982
Edited by Marie Warsh and Max Warsh (Soberscove Press, 2018), reviewed in Hyperallergic, October 5, 2018.
![Jess, The Enamord Mage: Translation #6, 1965. [Image description: A richly colored, painted portrait of Robert Duncan, whose head is depicted surrounded by household objects and books on mysticism.]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b6f1850b10598f1f5c4425c/1609395403776-4LXMBYEZVWDGPALD7OWO/Screen+Shot+2020-12-31+at+1.16.28+AM.png)
Jess, The Enamord Mage: Translation #6, 1965. [Image description: A richly colored, painted portrait of Robert Duncan, whose head is depicted surrounded by household objects and books on mysticism.]
The Householders: Robert Duncan and Jess
By Tara McDowell (MIT Press, 2019), reviewed in the Brooklyn Rail, February 2020.
Image description: A book cover depicting a self-portrait by Claude Cahun in which her head is captured beneath a bell jar’s glass dome.
Exist Otherwise: the life and works of claude cahun
By Jennifer Shaw (Reaktion Books, 2017), reviewed in the Brooklyn Rail, July/August 2017.
Image description: The catalogue book cover for Adrian Piper’s exhibition depicting a young Black girl smiling with words in red typewriter-style print superimposed over her image.
Adrian Piper: a synthesis of intuitions and Adrian Piper: a reader
Edited by Christophe Cherix, Cornelia Butler, and David Platzker (catalogue) and Cornelia Butler and David Platzker (reader) (MoMA, 2018), reviewed in the Brooklyn Rail, July 2018.
Art Reviews
“Andrea Geyer: plein-air,” The Brooklyn Rail, March 2023.
“Jake Berthot: The Enamels,” The Brooklyn Rail, June 2022.
“Chloë Bass: The Parts,” The Brooklyn Rail, July – August 2021.
“Lucas Samaras: Me, Myself, and… ,” The Brooklyn Rail, February 2020.
“Felix Gonzalez-Torres: Untitled (1989),” The Brooklyn Rail, July 2019.
“Richard Pousette-Dart: Works 1940 – 1992,” The Brooklyn Rail, June 2019.
“Günther Förg: Works from 1986 – 2007,” The Brooklyn Rail, April 2019.
“John Ashbery: The Construction of Fiction,” The Brooklyn Rail, November 2018.
“Being: New Photography 2018,” The Brooklyn Rail, April 2018.
“In Practice: Another Echo,” The Brooklyn Rail, March 2018.
“Portrayals of Prisoners Complicate Stereotypes and Implicate the US,” Hyperallergic, Feburary 23, 2018.
“Felix Gonzalez-Torres,” The Brooklyn Rail, June 2017.
“Simone Fattal,” The Brooklyn Rail, April 2017.
“Paul Mpagi Sepuya: Figures, Grounds and Studies,” The Brooklyn Rail, March 2017.
“Gay Gotham: Art and Underground Culture in New York,” The Brooklyn Rail, November 2016.
“Victor Burgin UK76 & Midwest,” The Brooklyn Rail, October 2016.
“Peter Piller Erscheinungen,” The Brooklyn Rail, September 2016.
“The Language of Things,” The Brooklyn Rail, July 2016.
“Juliana Cerqueira Leite,” The Brooklyn Rail, April 2016.
“pope.L Boone,” The Brooklyn Rail, March 2016.
“Walid Raad and Andrea Geyer,” The Brooklyn Rail, December/January 2015/2016.
“From Bauhaus to Buenos Aires: Grete Stern and Horacio Coppola,” The Brooklyn Rail, October 2015.
“Stanley Whitney and Lorraine O’Grady,” The Brooklyn Rail, September 2015.
Book Reviews
“Queer Networks: Ray Johnson’s Correspondence Art,” The Brooklyn Rail, December 2023 – January 2024.
“Dorothea Lange’s Day Sleeper” in “20 Best Art Books of 2020,” The Brooklyn Rail, December 2020.
“Tara McDowell’s The Householders: Robert Duncan and Jess,” The Brooklyn Rail, February 2020.
“Richard Serra and Hal Foster, Conversations About Sculpture,” The Brooklyn Rail, November 2019.
“Rosemary Mayer’s Temporary Monuments,” Hyperallergic, October 5, 2018.
“Adrian Piper: A Synthesis of Intuitions and Adrian Piper: A Reader,” The Brooklyn Rail, July/August 2018.
“And Yet My Mask Is Powerful,” The Brooklyn Rail, February 2018.
“Exist Otherwise: The Life and Works of Claude Cahun by Jennifer Shaw.,” The Brooklyn Rail, July/August 2017.
“The Estrangement Principle by Ariel Goldberg,” The Brooklyn Rail, May 2017.
“Excerpts from the 1971 Journals of Rosemary Mayer,” The Brooklyn Rail, February 2017.
“Float by Anne Carson,” The Brooklyn Rail, December 2016.
“Stone’s Throw by David Deitcher,” The Brooklyn Rail, May 2016.
“Carrie Lorig’s The Pulp vs. The Throne,” Poetry Project Newsletter no. 247, 2016.