Artist Publications and Critical Arts Writing
I produce a variety of published content....
Artist Publications include self-published and commissioned projects such as artist books, illustrated maps, and printed posters. Many of these publications are available at Printed Matter in New York. Critical Arts Writing includes essays, short features, art reviews, book reviews, and interviews with other artists. My arts writing has appeared in Frieze, Modern Painters, Quodlibetica, Bomb, Afterall, and New Art Examiner, for which I was Senior Editor, as well as numerous anthologies and catalogues. In total I have published 21 artist publications and over 100 critical articles. Scroll down this page to view the later. Visit my blog page for more recent writing.
Artist Publications
2016
“An Empty Sky,” short poem, 2016, written and presented at the “Meditation and the Spirit of Creativity,” retreat, Spirit Rock Meditation Center, Woodacre, CA. read
2014
Say Something, artist book, 26 pages, 2014. read
Issue: Seen/Unseen, Volume Four, collaborative artist book, four-color offset, 48 pages, December 2014, including “Touching the (Un)Seen.” see book
2013
Are you there, Guanyin?, four-color offset print, poster, 2013. see poster
Finding Everett Ruess, Davis Gulch, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Utah, four-color offset print, illustrated folded sheet map, 2013. see map
2012
Grand Canyon Suicide Map/Metta Meditation, Grand Canyon National Park, four-color offset, illustrated folded sheet map, 2012. see map
Issue: Erasure, Volume Three, collaborative artist book, four-color offset, 80 pages, May 2012, including “If/When… Mountains Were Oceans.” see book
2010
Issue: LAND, Volume Two, collaborative artist book, four-color offset, 80 pages, October 2010, including “What Does a Sea Squirt Know? Why Art Needs a Brain,” and “Grand Canyon Suicide Map.” see book
2009
Beneath the surface (of language), Silver Island Mountain Byway, Wendover, Utah, USA, four-color offset print, illustrated folded sheet map, 2009. see map
Doing Time, Nothing But Time, collaborative artist book with Michael Agnew and the NECC Actors, black-and-white offset with DVD-R insert, 80-pages, 2009. see book
2008
“Showing the Fly Out of the Fly Bottle: Searching for Ludwig Wittgenstein,” Cultural Geographies, Volume 15, April 2008, 255-260. read
Issue: Below Ground, Volume One, collaborative artist book, four-color offset, 80 pages, January 2008, including “Notes from Below Ground.” see book
“Winter Sports,” Art Shanty Project, ARP! magazine, Volume 1, Issue 3, January 2008, np.
2007
Searching for Ludwig Wittgenstein, Lake Eidsvatnet, Skjolden, Sogn, Norway, four-color offset print, illustrated folded sheet map, 2007. see map
Hot Air Sincerely, artist book, two-color offset, 2007. read
2005
Ad Infinitum and Desert Maps, artist book (New York: Art in General, 2005). read
“Lying Liar,” in The BMW Book: The Black Box, eds. Sofia Hernandez Chong Cuy, Raimundas Malašauskas, Alexis Vaillant with Catherine Hemelryk, Simon Rees, IX Baltic Triennial (Vilnius, Lithuania: CAC/Contemporary Art Centre, 2005), 104-109. read
2001-2004
“Snow Fall, Because Snow Never Melts, Language Snow Crystals,” Terra Form issue, WhiteWalls, issue 45, Summer 2004, 53-57.
“Are You Optimistic?,” with Gregory Scranton, Xeroxed questionnaire, 2004.
“A State of Hypoxia,” Bridge, Vol. 1, No. 4, Spring/Summer 2002, 118-122. read
“TopoAntarctica, Search Routes 1699-1916,” Utopia issue, Ten by Ten, September 2001, 23-24.
“Winter Sports,” Cakewalk, Issue 3, October 1999, 45-49.
Critical Arts Writing
2022
“A Mindful Approach to Teaching Art and Yoga as a Means of Liberation,” in Contemplative Practices and Anti-Oppressive Pedagogies for Higher Education: Bridging the Disciplines, eds. Greta Gaard and Bengu Ergüner-Tekinalp, Routledge, UK, May 2022. A detail of Molokai Painting ii is featured as the book’s cover image.
“Words and Music: Interview with Christian Marclay,” reprinted with Japanese translation in Christian Marclay Translating, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (MOT), Sayusha Publishing, Japan, March 2022.
2015
"Bad Lands: When canyoneering teaches you something about yourself," in Badlands: Photographs, Andrew Schroeder, MIEL Publishing, Belgium, December 2015, np [5-10]. read
2014
“Words and Music: Interview with Christian Marclay,” reprinted in ON&BY Christian Marclay, ed. Jean-Pierre Criqui, Cambridge, MA/London, UK: The MIT Press/Whitechapel Gallery, August 2014.
2013
“Speaking with Friends,” Ten Chances No Hustle 2012, edited by Patricia Healy McMeans, Minneapolis: Ten Chances No Hustle, 2013. read
2012
“Semblance of Fact: How brain scans are presented and consumed as photographs,” Triple Canopy, Issue 17, November 26, 2012, canopycanopycanopy.com
“Who’s Afraid of Conceptual Art,” reprinted in Quodlibetica, Constellation 21: Something Old, Something New, September 2012. read
“When Mountains Were Oceans,” in Mountains Were Oceans, MFA Exhibition Catalogue, Katherine E. Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota, April 2012, 3-5. Reprinted in Issue: Erasure.
2011
“A Day in the Life: Editing and Writing for the New Art Examiner,” in The Essential New Art Examiner, eds. Terri Griffith, Kathryn Born, and Janet Koplos (DeKalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 2011), 259-264. read
“Ha Ha Ha: Ray’s a Laugh (1999),” reprinted in The Essential New Art Examiner, eds. Terri Griffith, Kathryn Born, and Janet Koplos (DeKalb, IL: NIU Press, 2011), 292-298. read
“I Am For An Education,” and “After Comments to Art and Design (Mis)Education,” Quodlibetica, Constellation 16: Art and Design (Mis)Education, October 2011. read
“Arts, Writing, Disciplinarity: The Political Potential of a Mixed Creative Practice,” Quodlibetica, Constellation 13: Arts Writing, April 2011. read
“Introduction for Daniel Buren, ‘Why Write?,’ Art Journal 42, No. 2 (Summer 1982),” in “A Baker’s Dozen from the Archives,” Art Journal online, February 2011, artjournal.collegeart.org
2010
“The Southern Land Not Fully Known: Naming Antarctica,” Quodlibetica, Constellation 10: Cartographies, October 2010. read
“Who’s Afraid of Conceptual Art?” Quodlibetica, Constellation 07: Fakes and Fabulations, April 2010. read
“David Lefkowitz: Other Positioning Systems,” in David Lefkowitz: Other Positioning Systems (Rochester, MN: Rochester Art Center, 2010). read
2009
“The Real Experiment Continued,” reprinted in Paul McAree, ed., Breaking Ground: 2001 – 2009 (Ballymun, Dublin, Ireland: Breaking Ground, 2009), 40-48. read
“What does it mean to kill an animal in the name of art?,” Quodlibetica, Constellation 05: Death, November 2009. read
“On Disappearing,” Quodlibetica, Constellation 04: Wilderness, September 2009. read
“An MFA Afterall,” in MFA 2009 Thesis Catalogue, Department of Art, University of Minnesota, 2009, 43-44.
2008
“The Real Experiment Continued,” in Art and the Life World Research Papers, Breaking Ground, Ballymun, Dublin, Ireland, February 2008, 11-12. read
“Lawrence Weiner: As Far As The Eye Can See,” Rain Taxi, Vol.13, No.3, Fall 2008, 24-25. read
2007
“Pop Art and Vernacular Cultures,” Modern Painters, October 2007, 105-106. read
“Christian Boltanski, Time,” Rain Taxi, Fall 2007, www.raintaxi.com/online/2007fall /boltanski.shtml. read
“Kara Walker,” Modern Painters, July/August 2007, 81. read
“Performed Photography: Making Things Public,” Public Art Review, Issue 36, Spring/Summer 2007, 45. read
“Amy Cutler,” Rain Taxi, Vol.12, No. 1, March 2007, 34-35. read
2006
“More and Less: Haim Steinbach’s Dialectics,” InterReview, Issue 06, Spring 2006, 58-60. Reprinted with Japanese translation in exhibition catalogue Haim Steinbach, Percussion (Japan/New York: Akira Ikeda Gallery, 2007). read
“Why write about art?” Rain Taxi, Vol. 11, No. 1, Spring 2006, 34-35. read
2005
“Artists on Artists: Jan Estep on Clarence Morgan,” Bomb, Fall 2005, Number 93, 66-67.
“Victor Burgin,” in Lynne Warren, ed., Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Photography (New York: Routledge, 2005), 178-181.
“Adam Fuss,” in Lynne Warren, ed., Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Photography (New York: Routledge, 2005), 580-584.
“Everything I Always Wanted to Know, or, The Thought of Making Art Unthinkable,” Rain Taxi, Vol. 10, No. 1, Spring 2005, 30-31. read
2004
“Sophie Calle, M’as-tu Vue,” Rain Taxi, Vol. 9, No. 3, Fall 2004, 30-31. read
“Reading Hirschhorn: A Problem of (His) Knowledge or Weakness as a Virtue,” Afterall, Issue 9, 2004, 83-89.
“Devil Coming Down the Road: Interview with Ed Ruscha” excerpted in Pat Poncy and Robert Dean, editors, Ed Ruscha, Catalogue Raisonne of the Paintings: Volume One, 1958-1970 (Beverly Hills, New York, London: Gagosian Gallery and Steidl Publishing), 2004.
“The Last Picture Show, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis,” Frieze, Issue 81, March 2004, 97-98.
“Form and Content in Contemporary Printmaking: The Forest for the Trees,” Fourth Minnesota National Print Biennial (Minneapolis: Katherine E. Nash Gallery, 2004), np.
“A Natural Evolution,” Interplay (Minneapolis: Katherine E. Nash Gallery, 2004), np.
2003
“Words and Music: Interview with Christian Marclay,” excerpted in Incommunicado (London: Hayward Gallery Publishing, 2003), 74-77.
“Picture Making Meaning: An Interview with Jeff Wall,” Bridge Online, Vol. 2, No. 1, Sept. 03.
“My Dinner with Barney” (on Matthew Barney’s Cremaster cycle), Bridge Online, Vol. 1, No. 4, Mar. 03.
“I didn’t make this stuff up: An Interview with Martin Parr,” Bridge Online, Vol. 1, No.3, Jan. 03.
2002
“Liam Gillick,” excerpt of “Negotiating the Built World: A Conversation with Liam Gillick,” in Public Affairs, Das Offentliche in der Kunst (Zurich: Kunsthaus Zurich, 2002), 48-49.
“The Semiotics of the Built World,” with Liam Gillick, excerpt and reworking of “Negotiating the Built World: A Conversation with Liam Gillick,” in Liam Gillick: The Wood Way (London: Whitechapel Art Gallery, 2002), 80-88.
“Juror’s Essay,” Girardot National Juried Exhibition, Arts Council of Southeast Missouri, 7/02.
“Editorial: Thinking of Nothing,” New Art Examiner, May/June 02, 17.
“Negotiating the Built World, A Conversation with Liam Gillick,” New Art Examiner, May/June 02, 52-65.
“Visual Culture Editorial,” Malk: Contemporary Arts Journal of the Upper Midwest, University of Wisconsin, Madison, May, 2002, 4.
“I’ll Be Right Back: An Interview with Maurizio Cattelan,” New Art Examiner, Mar/Apr. 02, 38-45.
“Doug Ischar, Hyde Park Art Center,” New Art Examiner, Mar./Apr. 02, 67.
“Chasing Modernity: An Interview with Okwui Enwezor,” New Art Examiner, Jan./Feb. 02, 42-47.
“Transcendental Twaddle: Saying Wittgenstein” (on the work of Gary Hill, Anne Walsh, Nick Frank, Douglas Flieshut, Archive, Lucy Gunning), New Art Examiner, Jan/Feb.02, 50-57.
2001
“Playing Footsie on Top of the Table: A Conversation with Joseph Grigely” excerpted in Berlin Biennale 2 (Germany: Oktagon, 2001), 108-112.
“World Trade Center Response,” New Art Examiner, Nov./Dec. 01, 27.
“Words and Music: Interview with Christian Marclay,” New Art Examiner, Sept./Oct. 01, 78-83.
“Scene: On Disappearing,” New Art Examiner, Sept./Oct. 01, 30-31.
“Sharon Lockhart, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago,” New Art Examiner, Sept./Oct. 01, 85.
“Being Open: Interview with Rineke Dijkstra,” New Art Examiner, July/Aug. 01, 50-59.
“Scene: Where’s the Love?” New Art Examiner, July/Aug. 01, 28.
“Fresh Cream, by Phaidon Press,” New Art Examiner, July/Aug. 01, 109.
“Feral Children and the Queen of Mud” (on Ann-Sofi Siden), New Art Examiner, Mar. 01, 24-29.
“Devil Coming Down the Road: Interview with Ed Ruscha,” New Art Examiner, Mar. 01, 36-43.
“Artnote: Going Local,” New Art Examiner, Dec./Jan. 00/01, 64.
2000
“Artnote: A Political Debate: Hollywood vs. God,” New Art Examiner, Oct. 00, 72, 67.
“Critical Vehicles, by Krzysztof Wodiczko,” New Art Examiner, Sept. 00, 68.
“Action: Interview with Pierre Huyghe,” New Art Examiner, July/Aug. 00, 30-35.
“Special Report: Language and Art,” New Art Examiner, June 00, 16-17.
“Playing Footsie on Top of the Table: A Conversation with Joseph Grigely,” New Art Examiner, June 00, 26-31, 61. read
“Three’s a Shroud: God, You, and Jeffrey Vallance,” New Art Examiner, March 00, 24-29.
“Thomas Hirschhorn, Art Institute of Chicago,” New Art Examiner, May 00, 48-49.
“Rodney Graham, Donald Young Gallery,” New Art Examiner, Dec./Jan. 99/00, 48-49.
“Yvette Brackman, The Suburban,” New Art Examiner, Dec./Jan. 99/00, 46.
“Art at the Turn of the Millenium, by Uta Grosenick and Burkhard Riemschneider,” New Art Examiner, Dec./Jan. 99/00, 61.
1999
“Eleanor Antin, by Howard Fox and 100 Boots, by Eleanor Antin,” New Art Examiner, Nov. 99, 64.
“Flurry Goes to Hollywood: Reading Books and Watching Movies,” with Michael Agnew, New Art Examiner, Oct. 99, 32-36.
“Ha Ha Ha: Ray’s a Laugh” (on the work of Richard Billingham), New Art Examiner, Sept. 99, 28-31. read
“The Good, Bad + Ugly, by Joep van Lieshout,” New Art Examiner, Sept. 99, 66.
“Going Both Ways: An Interview with Charles Ray,” New Art Examiner, July/Aug. 99, 20-25.
“Believe, by Walter Van Beirendonck,” New Art Examiner, July/Aug. 99, 62.
“Disorienting Signs,” Disorienting Signs, Leonora Vega Gallery, New York, May 99, 3-7.
“CPR Takes Off: A Conversation with Michael Hall and Dan Hug,” New Art Examiner, May 99, 28-31.
“Laura Owens: Los Angeles, Chicago, New York,” with Jan Tumlir and Yvette Brackman, New Art Examiner, May 99, 44-47.
“Helen Mirra, Chicago Project Room,” New Art Examiner, Apr. 99, 45.
“Part-time Teachers Unite,” with Franklin Cason and Kathryn Hixson, New Art Examiner, Feb.99, 38-42.
“Jana Sterbak, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago,” New Art Examiner, Feb. 99, 46.
“Blunt Object, Smart Museum of Art,” New Art Examiner, Dec./Jan. 98/99.
“The Art of the X-Files, introduction by William Gibson, edited by Marvin Heiferman, Carole Kismaric,” New Art Examiner, Dec./Jan. 98/99.
1998
“Paul Seawright, Rhonna Hoffman Gallery,” New Art Examiner, Nov. 98, 47-48.
“You Call that a Career? An Interview with David Robbins,” New Art Examiner, Oct. 98, 26-31.
“Why is Failure so Funny, Or a Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Gallery: Buster Keaton and Peter Land,” New Art Examiner, Oct. 98, 20-25.
“Abigail Lane, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago,” New Art Examiner, Oct. 98, 48.
“Reality Bites, Chicago Cultural Center,” New Art Examiner, July/Aug. 98, 53.
“Christine Tarkowski, Textile Arts Center,” New Art Examiner, June 98, 43.
“Relative Perfection,” Arts, MAEP/Minneapolis Institute of Arts, May 98, 4-5.
“Studio View: Virgil Marti,” New Art Examiner, May 98, 44.
“Julie Heffernan, Peter Miller Gallery,” New Art Examiner, May 98, 48.
“On View St. Louis,” New Art Examiner, Apr. 98, 34-35.
“Gary Cannone, Loyola University,” New Art Examiner, Apr. 98, 40-41.
“Arturo Herrera, Renaissance Society,” New Art Examiner, Mar. 98, 50-51.
“Good Ship Chicago,” New Art Examiner, Feb. 98, 39.
“Jo Hormuth, Tough Gallery,” New Art Examiner, Feb. 98, 47-48.
“No Small Feat, Rhona Hoffman Gallery,” New Art Examiner, Dec./Jan. 97/98, 49.