Exhibitions in US: Reviews since 1982

My career began in Austin Texas as a critic for Artforum! But those short early reviews are not included here. I also wrote for Artweek and the local newspaper, the Austin American Statesman, at the same time that I was writing my dissertation on modernism in the 1920s. Even in those early articles, I wrote on public art, art by women, environmental issues as well as the white men Artforum wanted. I first saw Judy Chicago’s Dinner Party in Clear Lake City Texas in 1979.

I have pursued multiple writing styles for many years, popular, journalism, art world speak, academic, and finally, most rare and most valued, poetic interpretation in literary journals.

EARLY ARTICLES

Acconci Portable City and City Drops Down 1982

The first major article after I moved to California in 1981 to teach at Mills College. Vito Acconci wrote and complimented me for it!!

Oddly, the Harrison article makes no reference to racism or homelessness, some of the underlying causes of the urban ills they address.

For many years I taught the Harrisons’ crucial work by including reference to the walk I went on with them in San Jose, California in conjunction with writing this article. The article makes no reference to the walk. Here is one image. I am adding others in a document.

Helen and Newton Harrison An Urban Discourse 1983

Harrison walk San Jose California 1983 (images)

This article also led to a letter from the artist!

“Art for the New Apocalypse Masami Tereoka” 1997

ECOLOGY

I gave this lecture while I was living in Pullman, Washington as an Assistant Professor of Art History. It led to a major article in the summer 1992 issue of Art Journal . It was the first time I mixed art criticism and historical references. I lost some friends over it! Definitely a turning point toward where I am today.

Tensions in the Land Lecture Art Critics Association, New York City,1987

PARADIGMS AND PARADOXES NATURE MORALITY AND ART IN AMERICA. Art Journal 1992

This was a crucial long term project with Ann Rosenthal’s partner Stephen Moore on Nuclear energy. Today Hanford is leaking more than ever and the topic is more timely than it has ever been. I reprised it in a recent blog post on this website.

Ann Rosenthal and Stephen Moore Infinity City 1994-5

The View from Here 100 Artists Mark the Centennial of Mt Rainier National Park 1999

LillianPitt Warm Springs Oregon 1999

Portland: Voices of Water 2001

An Act of Resistance at Sacred Circle Art Gallery:

Tanis Maria S’eiltin 2002

Gail Tremblay Sacred Circle Art Gallery 2002

Changing models in Public Art, Seattle’s Salmon in the City 2002

Maya Lin Confluence Project 2006

Visualizing the Water Cycle Buster Simpson, Jann Rosen-Queralt, and Ellen Sollod at the Brightwater Treatment System in The New Earthwork, Art Action Agency, ed by Twylene Moyer and Glenn Harper, International Sculpture Center, 2011.

Maya Lin What is Missing 2011 published in The New Earthwork, Art Action Agency, ed by Twylene Moyer and Glenn Harper, International Sculpture Center, 2011.

Break Free From Fossil Fuels Pacific Northwest June 2016

Spirit of Standing Rock

ARTISTS FROM OUTSIDE US SHOWN IN US MUSEUMS:

A few examples

Ray Smith 1993

Prehistoric Palimpsests and Pentimenti Anabel Daou 1996

Women Artists of India: A Celebration of Independence 1998

India, Pakistan and Brazil 2002

Global Conceptualism Points of Origin 1950s to 1980s 2001

Vintage and Contemporary Czech Photography 2001

Intimate Violence Artists Responses to Illegal Detention and Torture, Brown Journal of World Affairs, 2013

Haida Gwaii Charles Edenshaw September 2013

City Dwellers Sept 2014

Tabaimo Utsutsushi utsushi Art Access January February 2017

Tabaimo Leschi Community News

Artists Engage the World December Leschi December 2016

POLITICAL ART ( actually all of my essays are political)

David Alfaro Siqueiros Portrait of a Decade 1930-1940 1998

Lucienne Bloch A Retrospective Mendocino Art Center 1998

Politically Incorrect Outing the Activist Artists 1999

Roger Shimomura 2002

“Racism is About All of Us”

“Remembering the Past: Japanese Internment Camps”

Selma Waldman Profile of the Armed Perpetrator 1998 2003

Enrique Celaya Splinter Return 2006

Dee Dee Faces the Abyss But Still Imagines Utopia 2008 ( Deborah Faye Lawrence)

Art Social Justice and Global Activism 2016

Selma Waldman essay for Seattle Central Community College, Fall 2008

Selma Waldman In Memoriam Raven 2009

Robert Davidson Haida Artist Seattle Art Museum 2014

Haida Gwaii Charles Edenshaw September 2013

Out O Fashion Embracing Beauty Deborarh Willis curator

April 2013

“Everything has been Material for Scissors to Shape The Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience,” Art Access November- December pp10-11

“Portfolio of Possibility” Mad Art, Seattle, Sculpture Magazine December 2016

“Martha Rosler: Housing is a Human Right,” Art Papers, July/August 2016

“Barbara Earl Thomas: Heaven on Fire,” Art Access, September-October, 2016

“Chuck Close Prints: Process and Collaboration,” Art Access, July-August, 2016

“Beyond Aztlan: Mexican and Chicano/a Artists in the Pacific Northwest,” Art Access, May June 2016

Tabaimo Leschi Community News

ESSAYS ON WOMEN ARTISTS

Early California Women Painters Artweek 1984

Feminism, Politics, and Social Commentary 1987

Marilyn Waligore 1993

Nancy Graves 1993

Imna Arroyo 1995