Young Joon Kwak, "Brown Rainbow Eclipse Explosion", 2017. Cast aluminum, welded aluminum rods, resin, glass mirror tiles, acrylic mirrors, epoxy putty, acrylic paint, motor, steel chain and hardware, custom LED light, shadow 31 x 31 x 31 inches (installation dims variable). Image courtesy of the artist and Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles and Mexico City. Photo: Ruben Diaz.
I had the opportunity to co-curate the group exhibition and performance series, Reckless Rolodex, with Matthew Goulish and Lin Hixson. Inspired by the performance artist Lawrence Steger (1961-1999), the show will be on view at the University of Illinois Chicago’s Gallery 400 from January… +
A new series I have been working on with co-editor, Giovanni Aloi, from University of Minnesota Press is finally live! More information available here. Listen to interviews with Art after Nature authors: Art and Posthumanism with Cary Wolfe (Art after Nature Part 1); Eco… +
I had the great privilege to publish Romi Crawford’s (Ed.) book, Fleeting Monuments for the Wall of Respect, published by the Green Lantern Press and distributed by the University of Minnesota Press. Romi Crawford proposes the concept of “fleeting monuments,” asking a range of artists… +
Marwa Arsanios, Still From Have You Ever Killed A Bear? Or Becoming Jamila, 2013-2014. Courtesy of the artist and Mor Charpentier, ParisWill Wilson (Diné), “Mexican Hat Disposal Cell, Navajo Nation (Connecting the Dots series),” 2020, drone-based digital photograph (triptych), ca. 44 x 110” total. Collection of the artist. From “Exposure: Native Art and Political Ecology” at the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
A group exhibition at the Renaissance Society, Chicago. Co-curated with Karsten Lund and running from Sep 12-Nov 15, 2020. You can download the digital catalogue here. Nine Lives takes shape around a set of protagonists, whether real or imagined, past or present, as if this exhibition were a… +
I’m excited that this book on the work of Candida Alvarez is out via the Green Lantern Press! Co-edited by myself and Fulla Abdul-Jabbar with a selection of articles on Alvarez from 1983 to the present; conversations between Alvarez and Dawoud Bey, Kay Rosen,… +