University of
California, Irvine (M.F.A. Studio Art,
2001) Yale University,
New Haven, CT (B.A. Literature, 1994)
Art Reviews + Critical Essays
Artillery
Postanimalism - Curator Tyler Stallings Talks about Art and Darwin (interview, November 2009)
Report from the International Astronautical Congress (feature, May 2009)
Guest Editor for May 2009 Art/Science issue
Francis Bacon at Tate Britain (feature, January 2009)
Gary Simmons at Margo Leavin Gallery (website, January 2009) Multiverse at Claremont Museum of Art (website, January 2009) Cosmos Factory at Cirrus Gallery (November 2008)
Pat O'Neill at Rosamund Felsen Gallery (September 2008)
Ken Gonzalez-Day at Steve Turner Contemporary (Summer 2008)
Artweek
Pipo Nguyen-Duy "The Garden" at Sam Lee Gallery (January 2009)
Kara Tanaka "Dissolver" at LAX Art (November 2008)
Flash Art
Olga Koumoundouros at REDCAT (October 2009)
Jutta Koether at Susanne Vielmetter Projects (April 2009)
Jeremy Everett at Roberts & Tilton (April 2009)
Kiersten Puusemp at The Box Gallery (January 2009)
Kori Newkirk "Rank" at LAX Art (October 2008)
Melanie Pullen "Violent Times" at ACE Gallery (October 2008) Phantom Sightings: Art after the Chicano Movement at LACMA (website, Summer/Fall 2008)
Choi Jeong Hwa "Truth" at REDCAT (March 2008)
Slater Bradley "Hope from a Dark Place" at Blum & Poe (Jan 2008)
SUPERFLEX "Copy Right" at 1301 PE (May 2007)
Song Dong and Yin Xiuzhen "Restroom M" and "Restroom W" at REDCAT (March 2007) How to Build a Universe that Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later at The Wattis Institute, California College of the Arts, San Francisco (March 2007)
Edgar Arceneaux "The Alchemy of Comedy ... Stupid" at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects (January 2007)
Eric Wesley at MOCA Pacific Design Center (Summer 2006) Consider This... at LACMA (Summer 2006) An Image Bank for Revolutionary Life at REDCAT (May 2006) Ecstasy at MOCA Geffen (January 2006)
Aernout Mik "Vacuum Room" at the Project (November 2005)
Margaret Kilgallen "In the Sweet Bye and Bye" at REDCAT (October 2005) Supersonic at Art Center College of Art and Design (October 2004) Storefront LIVE at various sites to mark the 10th anniversary of the 1992 LA riots (May 2002) Legitimate Theater at LACMA (October 2001) Snapshot at UCLA Hammer Museum (Summer 2001)
NY Arts Magazine
"Training Ground: The Portraiture of Liat Yossifor" (March 2007)
Shifter Magazine ruin | monument: "My Body in Space: The Imminent Philosophy" (issue 9, Fall 2006)
www.artcurrents.org AC Reviews #5 (Fall 2007)
solo show reviews: Ruben Ochoa, Anthony Giocolea, Michael Queenland, Chen Xiaoyun, Joel Tauber, Andrea Bowers, Andrea Zittel AC Reviews #4 (Fall 2006-Summer 2007)
solo show reviews: Mario Ybarra, Jr., Marilyn Minter, Edgar Arceneaux; Kori Newkirk
Corey McCorkle; group show "Consider This..." at LACMA
X-TRA
"A Call to Feminism in the Age of Biotechnologies and Bioinformatics" (feature, Winter 2008-9) click for pdf
Catalog Essays
Great Expectations at artlab21, Santa Monica, CA (November 2008), exhibition essay on the work of four German artists traveling through the American Southwest:
Josef Bernhard, Martin Galle, David Ostrowski, Michail Pirgelis
"Drawing is a Verb" exhibition essay for Chris Natrop and Julia Paull, two solo shows at Chapman University's Guggenheim Gallery, Orange, CA (Winter 2007) HanZi, The Rhythm of Chinese Script at Cal State Fullerton (Fall 2006), exhibition essay on the work of contemporary Chinese artists:
Xu Bing, Chih−Cheng Chang, Wenda Gu, Betty Lee, Bovey Lee, Lempo Leong, Morris Wang
“The Real Y2K” (2006): essay for artist Robert Brinker’s illustrated book of the 2000 Florida recount
“On Blindness” (April 2005): exhibition essay on the work of painter Liat Yossifor at Anna Helwing Gallery, Los Angeles Supersonic at Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA (Spring 2004), exhibition essay on the performance/video work of David Khang Enter Intercessor at RAID Projects, Los Angeles (May 2003): curatorial essay about the performance document, its politics, poetics and haptics:
Lida Abdul, Gustavo Artigas, Hadleigh Averill, Raul Cordero, George Domantay, Morten Goll, Vinzula Kara, Carole Kim + Jesse Gilbert,
Marcos Lutyens, Amitis Motevalli, Ellie Shoja, Joel Tauber
“Inversions of Inversions” (September 2002): exhibition essay for Pamela Joseph's Sideshow of the Absurd at McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, TX
Multimedia
War in the Flower Field (2006), presentation at Camouflage: Art, Science and Popular Culture - conference at University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls
The Sideshow of the Absurd, (2003-2004), writer of promotional material and co-producer of DVD for artist Pamela Joseph's traveling mechanical carnival
Fiction
Everywhere At Once and Not Just Once (2005), Mediatopia.2 fresh!
Journalism, and other publications
Artistic Bedfellows, Histories and Conversations in Collaborative Art Practices, edited by Holly Crawford, Art Currents Institute, University Press of America (2008): "The Art of Virtual Memory in a Pentagon-funded Initiative"
Student Guide to Writing at UCI, 10th edition (2002): logic and language analysis Benjamin's Blind
Spot: Walter Benjamin and the Premature Death of Aura,
edited by Lise Patt, Institute of Cultural Inquiry (2001) Illustrations.
Sojourner Magazine (1998): "Architect of the Arts," profile of award-winning
architect Harry Teague
The Aspen Times (1995-1998): travel and social history articles; art
previews/reviews
The Aspen Daily News (1996-1997); art previews/reviews
Roaring Fork Valley Magazine (Winter 1996): profile of artist Daniel
Sprick
KSPN-FM (1994-1995) writer/producer (1st place "Features," Colorado Broadcasters
Association Awards, 1994)