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A Simultaneous Vision of the Page


Clark Art Institute
Williamstown, MA
April 9, 2027

Degas: Dancers in Motion


Clark Art Institute
Williamstown, MA
October 9, 2026

The Edge of Projection: Photographic Art Histories in H.D.'s Scrapbook


University of Toronto
Toronto, CN
October 16, 2026

Car Wash Blues: Michael E. Smith’s Exhausted Sculptures Take a Break

Smith’s installation at MASS MoCA addresses labor, inspired by a neighboring car wash; Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA) In Michael E. Smith’s “The makings of you,” the residue left by creative and custodial acts produces a chorus of exhausted sculptural subjects. Inspired by and partly installed in the Best Way Car Wash, a small business …

Artforum
New York, NY
June 29, 2026

Giorgio Griffa: Paths in the Forest


The Clark Art Institute
Williamstown, MA
June 13–October 12, 2026

Wendy's Subway Writing Night

The end of the alphabet was once recited as X, Y, Z, and per se and, meaning and by itself is 'and.' This phrase would become slurred into "ampersand," written as &. In Old English, "and" also appeared as "ond" " and "end," which trace back through Proto-Germanic "unda" to Proto-Indo-European "en-ti" or "anti," meaning "in front of" and "facing." & the …

Wendy's Subway
Brooklyn, NY
April 10, 2025

Exhibition Text for Eve O'Shea & Hana Odson's Orpheum

Greek mythology tells us that Orpheus, master of song, descends into the underworld to retrieve Eurydice from death. Desperate to restore sense to a senseless loss, his song moves Hades and Persephone to grant her return. On the threshold of the upper world, he glances back at Eurydice, lacking blind faith that she follows. His forbidden glance destroys …

Drama Gallery
Brooklyn, NY
June 27, 2025

SLANT


SLANT Editions
Paris, FR
October 15, 2023–Present

Wendy's Subway Writing Night

POEM [one/eye] Can't Write: or To Write: A poem with the words of its own making [Alternate POEM] Blank Page Paralysis. Purity of Conception. yet/let… [I write] a word [I, for instance,] from which many flow. The POEM [1/I] concludes/continues. one-eyed POEM for/to: The End. again Cont. Write a poem with the words of its own making. [Alternate Prompt] Begin …

Wendy's Subway
Brooklyn, NY
April 10, 2025

Room for a Poem

again after again, it is already always. all this space in such a small room. all this room in such a small place. always after always, it is already again.

Civilization
New York, NY
February 1, 2025

Press Release for Kevin Reinhardt at The Salon Paris

56 HENRY is pleased to present new work by Kevin Reinhardt at The Salon by NADA & The Community from Thursday, October 17th through Sunday, October 20th, 2024. A clown balances on a line, stepping towards and away from its endpoints. It looks equally like a tightrope and a drawing of a tightrope. Solidly black, like the compression of all colors, or the …

56 Henry
New York, NY
October 8, 2024

Press Release for Kevin Reinhardt's 6

56 HENRY is pleased to present 6, an exhibition of new work by Kevin Reinhardt on view from September 4 through October 27, 2024, and Reinhardt’s second with 56 HENRY. Recollection is a discarded garment which beautiful as it may be, does not fit, for one has outgrown it. Repetition is an imperishable garment, which fits snugly and comfortably, neither too …

56 Henry
New York, NY
September 4, 2024

Press Release for Arthur Wechsler's Familiars

Cruise Control Gallery presents Familiars , the debut solo exhibition of Bay Area-born, Los Angeles-based painter Arthur Wechsler. The artist conducts an epistemic experiment in ten errant images, set astray from their referents in the strong current of familiarity. Familiars is a record of memory’s work, the mutually constitutive faculties of keeping and …

Cruise Control Gallery
Cambria, CA
June 8, 2024

Wendy's Subway Writing Night

To move to action. To cause, to bring about. A movement, an action, a feeling. Immediate, done without delay. To set forward, in(to) motion. From promere, “to bring forth.” Pro, “forward,” with emere “to take, distribute.” But also prompte, as in “readiness.” A prompt can be a noun or a verb or an adjective. Anything and everything could be or is a prompt, …

Wendy's Subway
Brooklyn, NY
October 23, 2023

Conclusion: Walking Backwards into a Room

The challenge of titling this book is the challenge of titling anything: you want the name to fit the thing, without reducing the thing. This was especially the case after a year of collaboration and correspondence. We considered “wanderthoughts,” relating it to the walks we took while calling each other from far away. There was “walking thoughts”—walking …

Published in Walking Backwards into a Room
May 2023

Artist Statement: Speaking of the Ineffable

When I learned to sew, the first thing I was told was that thread must be stronger than what it holds together. When visiting a memory, I dust its surface over with the present moment. I draw myself further away from the memory itself, and closer to my preceding encounters with it. In this show, I explore the fragmentation of memory committed by remembrance …

Artist Statement accompanying solo exhibition, Speaking of the Ineffable.

List Art Center, Providence, RI.
January 2022.

Presence, Play, and Postmodernism: Rethinking Zoom

Talking on the phone, I multitask—flip through an old journal, lint roll a sweater, brew coffee, butter a bagel. I do all of this while my attention appears unbroken to the receiving end. Phone calls are illusory in so far as I imagine attention where I do not confer it, presume the person on the other end to not similarly flip through journals, fold …

Published in The College Hill Independent
November 2020

"To Write as if Already Dead" by Kate Zambreno: The Body of the Author

Roland Barthes’ 1967 essay “The Death of the Author” saw a challenge, two years later, with Michel Foucault’s lecture “What Is an Author?” Kate Zambreno abbreviates the distinction between these two works: “Barthes wants to kill the author, Foucault wants the author to take on the appearance of a dead man.” Zambreno’s two-part book, To Write as If Already …

Published by ZYZZYVA Magazine
June 2021

"Why Didn't You Just Do What You Were Told?" by Jenny Diski: Seeing, Being, Naming

Jenny Diski’s posthumous collection, Why Didn’t You Just Do What You Were Told? (448 pages; Bloomsbury), consists of thirty-three essays, selected from the over two hundred the prolific British author wrote for the London Review of Books up until her death in 2016 at 68. Opening with a lighthearted account of a breakup and concluding with a humble …

Published by ZYZZYVA Magazine
June 2021

La Pipopipette

Seated atop a wicker desk chair inside a white box of a room, ten feet by ten feet with curtains all around, Dot smiles gently, thinking of the difference between a box and a cube. With curtains closing in on her quadrilaterally, the two corners of her mouth advance further towards the ceiling. Her smile rests beneath a square of cloth, itself protecting …

Published in Expat Press
November 2023

Published in Volume 1
May 2022

Interview with Kelly Cressio-Moeller

Kelly Cressio-Moeller’s debut poetry collection, Shade of Blue Trees (79 pages; Two Sylvias Press), consists of thirty-seven poems, broken into four parts. Cressio-Moeller has long established herself as both a visual artist and writer, with her widely published poetry earning nominations for the Pushcart Prize, Best New Poets, and Best of the Net awards. …

Published in ZYZZYVA Magazine
August 2021

A Simultaneous Vision of the Page
Degas: Dancers in Motion
The Edge of Projection: Photographic Art Histories in H.D.'s Scrapbook
Car Wash Blues: Michael E. Smith’s Exhausted Sculptures Take a Break

Smith’s installation at MASS MoCA addresses labor, inspired by a neighboring car wash; Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA) In Michael E. Smith’s “The makings of you,” the residue left by creative and custodial acts produces a chorus of exhausted sculptural subjects. Inspired by and partly installed in the Best Way Car Wash, a small business …
Giorgio Griffa: Paths in the Forest
Wendy's Subway Writing Night

The end of the alphabet was once recited as X, Y, Z, and per se and, meaning and by itself is 'and.' This phrase would become slurred into "ampersand," written as &. In Old English, "and" also appeared as "ond" " and "end," which trace back through Proto-Germanic "unda" to Proto-Indo-European "en-ti" or "anti," meaning "in front of" and "facing." & the …
Exhibition Text for Eve O'Shea & Hana Odson's Orpheum

Greek mythology tells us that Orpheus, master of song, descends into the underworld to retrieve Eurydice from death. Desperate to restore sense to a senseless loss, his song moves Hades and Persephone to grant her return. On the threshold of the upper world, he glances back at Eurydice, lacking blind faith that she follows. His forbidden glance destroys …
SLANT
Wendy's Subway Writing Night

POEM [one/eye] Can't Write: or To Write: A poem with the words of its own making [Alternate POEM] Blank Page Paralysis. Purity of Conception. yet/let… [I write] a word [I, for instance,] from which many flow. The POEM [1/I] concludes/continues. one-eyed POEM for/to: The End. again Cont. Write a poem with the words of its own making. [Alternate Prompt] Begin …
Room for a Poem

again after again, it is already always. all this space in such a small room. all this room in such a small place. always after always, it is already again.
Press Release for Kevin Reinhardt at The Salon Paris

56 HENRY is pleased to present new work by Kevin Reinhardt at The Salon by NADA & The Community from Thursday, October 17th through Sunday, October 20th, 2024. A clown balances on a line, stepping towards and away from its endpoints. It looks equally like a tightrope and a drawing of a tightrope. Solidly black, like the compression of all colors, or the …
Press Release for Kevin Reinhardt's 6

56 HENRY is pleased to present 6, an exhibition of new work by Kevin Reinhardt on view from September 4 through October 27, 2024, and Reinhardt’s second with 56 HENRY. Recollection is a discarded garment which beautiful as it may be, does not fit, for one has outgrown it. Repetition is an imperishable garment, which fits snugly and comfortably, neither too …
Press Release for Arthur Wechsler's Familiars

Cruise Control Gallery presents Familiars , the debut solo exhibition of Bay Area-born, Los Angeles-based painter Arthur Wechsler. The artist conducts an epistemic experiment in ten errant images, set astray from their referents in the strong current of familiarity. Familiars is a record of memory’s work, the mutually constitutive faculties of keeping and …
Wendy's Subway Writing Night

To move to action. To cause, to bring about. A movement, an action, a feeling. Immediate, done without delay. To set forward, in(to) motion. From promere, “to bring forth.” Pro, “forward,” with emere “to take, distribute.” But also prompte, as in “readiness.” A prompt can be a noun or a verb or an adjective. Anything and everything could be or is a prompt, …
Conclusion: Walking Backwards into a Room

The challenge of titling this book is the challenge of titling anything: you want the name to fit the thing, without reducing the thing. This was especially the case after a year of collaboration and correspondence. We considered “wanderthoughts,” relating it to the walks we took while calling each other from far away. There was “walking thoughts”—walking …
Artist Statement: Speaking of the Ineffable

When I learned to sew, the first thing I was told was that thread must be stronger than what it holds together. When visiting a memory, I dust its surface over with the present moment. I draw myself further away from the memory itself, and closer to my preceding encounters with it. In this show, I explore the fragmentation of memory committed by remembrance …
Presence, Play, and Postmodernism: Rethinking Zoom

Talking on the phone, I multitask—flip through an old journal, lint roll a sweater, brew coffee, butter a bagel. I do all of this while my attention appears unbroken to the receiving end. Phone calls are illusory in so far as I imagine attention where I do not confer it, presume the person on the other end to not similarly flip through journals, fold …
"To Write as if Already Dead" by Kate Zambreno: The Body of the Author

Roland Barthes’ 1967 essay “The Death of the Author” saw a challenge, two years later, with Michel Foucault’s lecture “What Is an Author?” Kate Zambreno abbreviates the distinction between these two works: “Barthes wants to kill the author, Foucault wants the author to take on the appearance of a dead man.” Zambreno’s two-part book, To Write as If Already …
"Why Didn't You Just Do What You Were Told?" by Jenny Diski: Seeing, Being, Naming

Jenny Diski’s posthumous collection, Why Didn’t You Just Do What You Were Told? (448 pages; Bloomsbury), consists of thirty-three essays, selected from the over two hundred the prolific British author wrote for the London Review of Books up until her death in 2016 at 68. Opening with a lighthearted account of a breakup and concluding with a humble …
La Pipopipette

Seated atop a wicker desk chair inside a white box of a room, ten feet by ten feet with curtains all around, Dot smiles gently, thinking of the difference between a box and a cube. With curtains closing in on her quadrilaterally, the two corners of her mouth advance further towards the ceiling. Her smile rests beneath a square of cloth, itself protecting …
Interview with Kelly Cressio-Moeller

Kelly Cressio-Moeller’s debut poetry collection, Shade of Blue Trees (79 pages; Two Sylvias Press), consists of thirty-seven poems, broken into four parts. Cressio-Moeller has long established herself as both a visual artist and writer, with her widely published poetry earning nominations for the Pushcart Prize, Best New Poets, and Best of the Net awards. …