Selected Essays
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“Frank Stella, Then and Now” in Frank Stella: Recent Work.  Singapore: Singapore Tyler Print Institute, 2002.

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‘I Got Freedom over My Head: ’Julie Moos' Hat Ladies of New Pilgrim Baptist Church” in Julie Moos: Hat Ladies. Birmingham, AL: Birmingham Museum of Art, 2002. This is the first catalogue of this photographer’s work.

“Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology and Installation Art” in Claudia Giannini, ed., Installations Mattress Factory 1990-1999.Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001. This essay connects the development of installation art in the late 1950s with Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology.

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“Frank Stella: Matrixed and Real Space” in Frank Stella.  Philadelphia: Locks Gallery, 2000.
“Running Interference” in Suzanne Feldman, 20 Years/ 20 Artists.  Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1999. This essay was included in a catalogue for the Aspen Museum of Art. Essay (PDF)
“Wired: Matthew McCaslin’s Reconsiderations of Electricity” in Konrad Bitterli, Matthew McCaslin. Stuttgart: Cantz Publishing, 1998. This essay is the first in-depth view of this artist’s work. Essay (PDF)
“Youth's Purgatory: Presumptions of Innocence and Other Childhood Roles” in Jean Crutchfield, Presumed Innocence. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1998. Essay (PDF)
“Thornton Dial” in Elsa Longhauser and Harald Szeemann, Self-Taught Artists of the 20th Century.  New York: Museum of American Folk Art, 1998. Essay (PDF)
Rachel Lachowicz.  New York: Cristinerose Gallery, 1998.  This is the first catalogue on this artist’s work. Essay (PDF)
“Site-Specificity at the Fattoria di Celle” and “Art in the Fattoria” in Art in Arcadia: The Gori Collection, Celle.  Torino: Umberto Allemandi & C., 1994. Essay (PDF)
“Sally Michel: The Other Avery.” Woman's Art Journal 8 (Fall 1987/Winter 1988). Essay (PDF)
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