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Selected Writings

"Manual Operations: Joan Lyons’s Haloid Xerox Works and Feminized Labor,” Grey Room, no. 96 (Summer 2024): 74–103.

Peer-reviewed article analyzing Joan Lyons's Women's Portrait series (1974–79)—made on the original, manual Xerox machinery from 1948—through the lens of feminized labor. It argues that Lyons harnessed a copying system associated with women's unskilled clerical work to deconstruct feminine archetypes and, in so doing, illuminated the devalued skills of women "operators" in the predigital age.

Book review of Lauren Rosenblum and Christina Weyl, eds., A Model Workshop: Margaret Lowengrund and The Contemporaries, in Woman’s Art Journal 45, no. 2 (Fall/Winter 2024): 66–69.

Review of the catalogue for an exhibition at Print Center New York, the first publication to investigate Margaret Lowengrund's artistic practice and founding of the hybrid workshop-gallery The Contemporaries in 1951.

"Solidarity in Print: Review of Public Works: Art by Elizabeth Olds at the Harry Ransom Center, UT Austin, Texas,” The Public Review, May 9, 2024.

Review of the Elizabeth Olds retrospective, with consideration of the artist's commitment to anti-racism and anti-capitalism in the context of the exhibition's site of display: a public university.

“Bringing the Invisible to Light: Aura and Psychic Photography,” in Supernatural America: The Paranormal in American Art, ed. Robert Cozzolino (Minneapolis: Minneapolis Institute of Art, 2021). Winner of the College Art Association’s 2022 Alfred H. Barr Jr. Award.

Exhibition catalogue essay on the use of photographic technologies to visualize the imperceptible energies of the human body and other life forms from the nineteenth to twenty-first century.