Selected Writing

150 Stories: Lives of the Artists At the League

Entries on Beverly Buchanan and Donald Judd in an anthology featuring 150 artists who have studied or taught at the Art Students League since its founding in 1875. New York: Art Students League, 2025.

Feature/review on the exhibition What Drawing Can Be: Four Responses at the Menil Drawing Institute of works by Jillian Conrad, Teresita Fernández, Tony Lewis, and Constantin Luser.

“what drawing can be: Four Responses–A response,” Glasstire, July 23, 2025

“A Trillion Limbs,” Ana Villagomez: The Lightning is the Mother’s Song, Pazda-Butler Gallery, Houston, ADAA 2024

“Fluid Dynamics,” Ariel Wood: Rest, raze, cullect. Lawndale Art Center, Houston, 2024

“Grown Together,” sculpture School: Concrete Catalog, Sweet pass Sculpture Park, 2024

Text on concrete, minimalism, permanence, and the body. Commissioned by Tamara Johnson and Trey Burns for the Sculpture School Catalog, Dallas: Sweet Pass Sculpture Park, 2024.

“Every Marble is a Planet,” Past Deposits From a Future Yet to Come DialogueS, Waterloo Greenway Conservancy, 2024

Essay commissioned on the occasion of the permanent public video installation by Teresa Hubbard and Alexander Birchler Past Deposits from a Future Yet to Come, at Waterloo Greenway, Austin, May 2024

“The Paradox of Permanence,” Public Art Dialogue, 2024

An essay on sculpture parks and temporality for a special issue of Public Art Dialogue “On the Nature of Sculpture Parks,” edited by Marin R. Sullivan.

Groundswell: Women of Land Art, 2023

Edited by Leigh A. Arnold, with contributions by me, Scout Hutchinson, Anna Lovatt, Jenni Sorkin, and Anne Thompson

“The Moth Effect,” Virginia Lee Montgomery (VLM), Eye Moon Cocoon, Women and their Work Gallery, Austin, 2023

Jamil Hellu, Odyssey, 2023

Text for Jamil Hellu’s 2023 solo exhibition Odyssey at Rebecca Camacho Presents, San Francisco

Edited by Maria Emilia Fernández, Adele Nelson, and MacKenzie Stevens. Austin, Texas: Visual Art Center and the University of Texas Press, 2023.

“Nairy Baghramian’s Object Lessons” Nasher Prize Graduate Symposium, 2022

Nasher Prize Graduate Symposium Compendium. Dallas, Texas: Nasher Sculpture Center, 2022.