Education
M.A. Art History
Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, 1986
B.A. Art History & Philosophy
Scripps College, Phi Beta Kappa, 1983
Experience
Corresponding Editor, Art in America, 1997-present
Art Writer/Critic, Los Angeles Times, 1987-present
Curator, Time, Mark, Memory: Ucross at 40, Ucross Art Gallery, 2022-2023
Correspondent, ARTnews, 1986-1997
Curator, “Camera as Weapon: Worker Photography Between the Wars,” 1991. Traveling exhibition and catalogue organized for the Museum of Photographic Arts, supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Publications
Books
Ensnaring the Moment: On the Intersection of Poetry and Photography, Saint Lucy Books, 2025
Essays and Interviews in Books and Catalogues (selected)
“Sun. Center. Self.” Chris McCaw: Into the Sun, Datz Press, 2024
“A Chorusing in Us of Elements,” Christine Corday: Works 2006-2022, Radius, 2023
“Conversation,” Klea McKenna: Witness Mark, Saint Lucy Books, 2023
Julie Blackmon: Midwest Materials, Radius, 2022
“Brie Ruais,” Clay Pop, Rizzoli, 2022
“Activism of the Interior: A Conversation with Betye Saar,” Betye Saar: Serious Moonlight, Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, 2022
Michael Light: Lake Lahontan | Lake Bonneville, Radius, 2019
“how might we?,” Richard Gate: Anthology, Granary Arts, 2019
“Look. Feel. Act.,” Scripps College 75th Ceramic Annual, 2019
Alison Rossiter: Expired Paper, Radius, 2017
Shortlisted for PhotoBook of the Year, 2017 Paris Photo--Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards
"Questions This Clay Asks," Scripps College 71st Ceramic Annual, 2015
Voynich Botanical Studies, Andersen's Contemporary, Copenhagen, 2013
Jacob Hashimoto, Armada, Studio La Citta, Verona, Italy, 2011
Michal Chelbin: Strangely Familiar, Aperture, 2008
"Busy Hands, Busy Mind," Victoria Gitman, Las Vegas Art Museum, 2008
“Einar & Jamex de la Torre,” Strange New World: Art and Design From Tijuana, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, 2006
“Nothing Stands Apart,” Anne Mudge: Persistent Gestures, San Diego State University, 2006
The Photography of John Brill, Kent, 2002
William Kentridge: Weighing...and Wanting, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, 2001
"About Loss, Innocence, Carroll, McGraw and the Earthly Paradise," DeLoss McGraw: As a Poem, So Is a Picture, Scottsdale Center for the Arts, 1997
Camera as Weapon: Worker Photography Between the Wars, Museum of Photographic Arts, 1991
Magazine Articles (selected)
“Sheila Metzner: Looking Backward, Dreaming Forward,” Photograph, January-February 2024
“Christina Fernandez’s Ethics of Looking,” Photograph, November 2022
“It Is What It Is: All the Cards Issued to Donald Trump by Richard Kraft,” The Brooklyn Rail, Dec 2021-Jan 2022
“In the Studio: Lari Pittman,” Art in America, October 2019
“In the Studio: Betye Saar,” Art in America, June/July 2019
“Keep Looking: Samuel Levi Jones Speaks with Leah Ollman,” Art in Print, September 2018
“In the Studio: Sabrina Gschwandtner,” Photograph, May-June 2018
"In the Studio: Allen Ruppersberg," Art in America, March 2018
"Rematerializing Photography," Art in America, June/July 2017
"I Was Dreambox," Paris Review Daily, 1 June 2015
"Unbinding the System" (Samuel Levi Jones), Art in America, April 2015
"In Studio: Ricky Swallow," Art in America, May 2014
"The Happy Medium" (Clay in L.A.), Art in America, December 2012
"Romantic Realist" (Robert Adams), Art in America, March 2012
“Everything Moves, All the Time” (SITE Santa Fe report), Art in America, October 2010
“The World According to Kuitca,” Art in America, December 2009
“Sight Unseen,” Art on Paper, November/December 2009
“Critical Consumption,” Art on Paper, January/February 2009
“The Geometry of Light” (Robert Irwin), Art in America, April 2008
“The Industrious Line” (Ruth Asawa), Art in America, May 2007
“Inventing Tijuana,” Art in America, December 2006
“Farber on Farber,” Art in America, October 2004
“Past Perfect Photos,” Art in America, January 2003
“About Face” (Tony Scherman), Art in America, November 2002
“From Revolution to Reverie,” Art in America, October 2001
“Relics of the Material Age” (David Bunn), Art in America, November 2000
"William Kentridge: Ghosts and Erasures," Art in America, January 1999 (cover)
"Judit Hersko: Projected Identities," Sculpture, September 1998
"Liza Lou's American Dream," Art in America, June 1998
Additional articles published in American Craft, ZOOM, ARTnews, See, History of Photography, High Performance
Exhibition Reviews
Over 1000 reviews and features for the Los Angeles Times
Over 85 reviews for Art in America
Additional reviews published in Photograph, Craft, Art on Paper, Ceramics, ARTnews, Art Nexus, Afterimage, High Performance
Residencies and Honors
Ucross Foundation Residency, 2013
Hambidge Fellow, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2021, 2024
Reva and David Logan Grant in Support of New Writing on Photography, 1986
Lectures (selected)
University of Texas at Austin
Grey Art Gallery, New York University
Spencer Art Museum, Lawrence, Kansas
Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego
Claremont Graduate University
Nebraska Wesleyan University
Other Activities
Judge, James Beard Foundation Media Awards, 2018 - 2023
Juror, Fellows of Contemporary Art Fellowship Award, 2013
Juror, KAFA Award for the Visual Arts, 2010, 2012