(under construction)
Pyewacket; rather, – Judith Brotman, Material, Chicago, IL
Fragrantica – While I Can Still Draw Breath
Fragrantica – Smelly Pits and Curvy Hips
Fragrantica – Having Your Cake and Lawn-Mowing It Too: A Playful Split Personality from Puppet Parfum
Fragrantica – Ghosts, Lovers, Nerds, and Fans: How Sixteen92’s ‘RECENTLY DECEASED’ Capsule Collection Adapts a Fan Favorite Film into Scent
Fragrantica – Opaline: A Heliotropic Revival for the Silver Millennium
Fragrantica – Revengers Resemble! Amplified Evocations of Peach
Fragrantica – What I’m Learning About I’ll Never Learn: The Bottling of Lovely Midwestern Paradoxes
Fragrantica – Summer 2024 Perfume Highlights, with Ítalo Pereira
Fragrantica – Adding Extra Fizz: The Memorable, Refreshing Apothéose from Oriza L. Legrand
Fragrantica – A Constellation of Purple Floral Flourishes: Chanel's Comète is the House's Best Iris in Years
Fragrantica – You Deserve a Little Treat
Fragrantica – Flight of the Rose into a Fairy Ballet: Rose Adage by Odette Parfum Co.
Fragrantica – Scenting Eccentric Glamour: Dita Von Teese’s Newest Fragrance Fantasies
Fragrantica – Sleuthing Idiosyncrasies from Clue Perfumes: Hot Dust, Mushrooms, Flames on the Side of My Face
Fragrantica – Best Perfumes 2023
Fairy Valley Beneath the Big Rock Candy Mountain: A script for radio play – Gabriel Chalfin-Piney, Bird Show, Chicago, IL
Fragrantica – ROSE QUEST 2023: Reluctance, Ravishing, and Rehabilitation with Roses
Fragrantica – This Girl From Grasse is a Boy From Robertet: Marie Jeanne in Review
Fragrantica – Tinker, Tailor, Wash, and Dry: Olivia Giacobetti Does Laundry Scents 4 Ways for Zara
Fragrantica – Love Potion Numbers in the Many: Falling for Sous Le Manteau
Fragrantica – The Perfume Thief: Smuggling the Meaning of Smells Inside of Words
A Libertine Among Libertarians – Jared Packard, Salinas Art Center, Salinas, KS
Fragrantica – A Perfume for Feeling Loss: Buxton’s Send Up to Film and Freud
Fragrantica – Universal Flowering Is Perfume for Sexy Weirdos: How Heliotrope Piss Play Hooked Me
Fragrantica – The Latest La Vie Est Belle Flanker Is the Best One Yet
Fragrantica – Bargain Fragrances: From the Tru West Rodeo Comes Le Monde Gourmand’s Carnival Concessions
Fragrantica – Expanding Violet: Sixteen92’s Signals to Parisian Nightlife and Classic Cocktails
In Other Words – Emmy Bright, UNT College of Visual Arts & Design, Denton, TX
Fragrantica – Cheeky Tarts: Reflections on Vivienne Westwood’s Legacies in Fashion and Fragrance
Vantages – In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. Curator’s Essay. The Ralph Arnold Gallery at Loyola University, Chicago, IL
I Had a Notion of Our Beguiled: Melanie Flood’s Unruly Images – Melanie Flood, RUSCHWOMAN, Chicago, IL
Reading the Room – Judith Brotman, Tetrapod Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Venti Journal – Shimmering Cloud: Psychoanalytic Notes on the Perfumer’s Note List
Fragrantica – Favorite Perfumes of 2022
Private Parts – Jade Yumang, CIRCA Art Actuel, Montreal, Quèbec
Fragrantica – Some Secrets Decoded Between Violet and Mauve: Régime des Fleurs Himitsu Reviewed
Fragrantica – ROSE / QUEST 2021
Fragrantica – Tricky Horror Flicks and Perfume Treats: A Guide to Your Scented Spooky Autumn
Fragrantica – Interview with Laurie Stern of Velvet and Sweet Pea’s Purrfumery
Fragrantica – MLLE: Musc et Madame et Meringue et Maquillage et Milk et Amour
Fragrantica – Where to Begin with the Maya Njie Collection
Fragrantica – The Return of the Repressed Almond for Me and Serge
Fragrantica – Butterflies in My Stomach: Finding Out What a Backwoods Barbie Smells Like
Fragrantica – Editors' Favorite Perfumes of 2020
Fragrantica – Zara’s Cotton Kiss Is Not a Kiss, Or Is It: An Analysis
Fragrantica – My Milk Scents Bring All The Boys To The Yard
Blousy Irreverence – Interview with Jared Ledesma for Sissi, Amplify Arts,
with artwork by Walker Greene and design by Dawaune Lamont Hayes
Lipstick Effects – Trestle Gallery, New York, NY
QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking – He Had Money and Standing, They Had Youth and Beauty:
A Response to About Face: Stonewall, Revolt and Queer (with supportive writing by Jade Yumang)
Fragrantica – Zaran’t You Glad I Sorted Through the Good and Bad So You DIdn’t Have To?
Fragrantica – I Would Have Loved a Berry Pavlova: The Smell of Regret in Ariana Grande’s Thank U, Next
Fragrantica – What Scents Help You to Feel Safe?
Fragrantica – Bidding Farewell to Vincent’s Dream House of the Sleeping Beauties
Fragrantica – Embellish and My Epiphany from B Fragranced
Fragrantica – RUNDHOLZ PARFUMS: An Incense and Orris Journey
Fragrantica – New Symptoms of the Lipstick Effect
Mana Contemporary – Heartfelt Reading List
Public Garden – Michael Reece: Some Binarisms, Columbia College, Chicago, IL
Fragrantica – More Libido, Less Ego: A Reparative Journey with Fray Ardens
Fragrantica – The Curious Case of the Trimmest Rosebush and the Spilled Molasses: Two New Ones from Bruno Fazzolari Reviewed
Fragrantica – A Fairy Pokémon, Her Friend the Enormous Cake, and a Rabble of Scented Insurgents
Fragrantica – Greenhouse Affect: Comme des Garçons’ Celluloid x Galbanum Reviewed
Fragrantica – The Artful Dodgers: Measuring the Wins and Disappointments of Four Niche Houses
Fragrantica – Good Breath
Fragrantica – Highlights from the Britney Spears Perfume Dynasty
Fragrantica – Who Is the Creamiest, the Waxiest, the Most Lipsticky of Them All?
Fragrantica – Exhibition Imaginaries and the Expanded Senses No. 7
Fragrantica – Exhibition Imaginaries and the Expanded Senses No. 6
Fragrantica – Exhibition Imaginaries and the Expanded Senses No. 5
Fragrantica – Exhibition Imaginaries and the Expanded Senses No. 4
Fragrantica – Exhibition Imaginaries and the Expanded Senses No. 3
Fragrantica – Exhibition Imaginaries and the Expanded Senses No. 2
Fragrantica – Exhibition Imaginaries and the Expanded Senses No. 1
X–TRA – Violent Grey: Gaylen Gerber, The Arts Club of Chicago
Fragrantica – Universal Supreme, the Indisputable Anthem of Summer 2019
THE SEEN – Through Smoke and Across Dissent: Power Plays with Perfumery
Fragrantica – Collecting Impressions, Beyond Façades: An Interview with WienerBlut’s Alexander Lauber
Fragrantica – As Above So Below, a Fragrance by artist Bunny Rogers and Régime des Fleurs
Fragrantica – The Treachery of Breakfasts: A Review of D.S. & Durga’s Breakfast Leipzig
Fragrantica – Back to the Witch: The Return of the Sorceress in Scent
Artforum.com – Krista Franklin
Gender Assignment – Picking Up the Scent: Chicago Art Luminaries Share Their Relationships to Fragrance
Fragrantica – Which Kinds of Love? Kilian at Sephora Reviewed
Gender Assignment – Dad Spelled Backwards Is Drag
Gender Assignment – Borderland Creatures: Lise Haller Baggesen & Iris Bernblum at Goldfinch
What was the father to the inside of an object’s name – curator’s essay, Casting Inside, Essex Flowers, New York, NY
Let Me Be an Evil Genie of Objects That Screams, Gallery 400, Chicago, IL
FLASH ART – Senga Nengudi
Field + Florist – Destroy, She Said She Would Buy the Flowers Herself
Banish the Thought / Marry the Night – Katy Kirbach, Bar4000, Chicago, IL
Pelican Bomb – How Roni Horn Taught Me to Cruise on the Down Low
The Homospectral Vampire, the Look Queen, and the Dispersed Closet – Jesse Clark, Imago
Grotte – Chelsea Culprit, Uma Certa Falta de Coerência, Porto, Portugal
Sculpture – Why Did Petah Coyne's Work Make Me Cry?
Artforum.com – Tania Pérez Cordova
It will be more like scratching that writing – curator’s essay, Goldfinch, Chicago, IL
New Relics from the Pleasuredome – Dutes Miller, Western Exhibitions
Pelican Bomb – For Advanced Souls: Rhonda Wheatley at the Hyde Park Art Center
Hyperreal Hanuman: Painting Into Global Flows – Kaveri Raina, Hammond Harkins Galleries
Introduction to LET ME BE AN OBJECT THAT SCREAMS collection of essays
Artforum.com – Sheida Soleimani
You May Destroy the Body – Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art
Artforum.com – Lise Haller Baggesen
Chicago Magazine – Taste the Fierce Flavor of Chicago Drag Superstar Kim Chi
Artforum.com – Maria Gaspar
How to Make an American Quilt Painting – Sanford Biggers, Monique Meloche Gallery
Flash Art – Kerry James Marshall
Artforum.com – Courttney Cooper
Bonus Holes – Zoe Nelson, Cleve Carney Gallery
An Effect of Power – Finocchio catalogue, The Franklin, Chicago, IL
Power Up and Party Downer – Platforms: Ten Years of Chances Dances
The Reproduction of Certain Scenes – Laura Davis, Threewalls
ARTnews – Expo Chicago Returns, with Big Ambitions, and Some Exhibitor Turnover
Newcity – Leaving Saturn’s Return
Artforum.com – Militant Eroticism
Newcity – If the Lions Aren’t Cowardly, Who Is?
Newcity – Breakout Artists 2015
Sculpture – Imitation Is the Sincerest Form of Instability: Chris Bradley’s Trompe L’oeil Masculinity
Flash Art – Mathias Poledna, Renaissance Society, Chicago, IL
Artforum.com – Todd Kelly + Morgan Mandalay
Newcity – Stand in the Sun
Newcity – Hard to See
Newcity – Generative Bodies and Subverted Norms
Newcity – Authority, Affirmations, and Other Nomenclature
Newcity – A Hard-won Hunt for the Means to Fly
Newcity – Naomi Beckwith in Conversation about Richard Hunt
Artforum.com – Lucy McKenzie, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Newcity – Even Formalist Artistry Is for Living
Newcity – Top 5 of Everything: Art
Newcity – Races, Places, and Art’s Useful Violence
Newcity – The Hustle of Multi-hyphenates
Newcity – Josef Strau, Renaissance Society, Chicago, IL
Newcity – Mother of Invention, Lise Baggesen
Newcity – Lise Baggesen, extended interview
Newcity – Daniel Giles + Eliza Myrie, Roots & Culture, Chicago, IL
Artforum.com – Magalie Guérin, Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago, IL
Newcity – Expo Dispatches: Blah Blah Blah, Bright Inclusions in Expo and Edition, and Champagne Bubbles
Newcity – Expo Dispatches: Time to Go Home
Newcity – Introductory essay for guest project by Puppies Puppies
Newcity – Vincent Tiley, elee.mosynary gallery, Chicago, IL
Newcity – Cities Built Within Galleries
Sculpture – Miller & Shellabarger, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Newcity – Macon Reed, Ordinary Projects, Chicago, IL
Newcity – Tony Tasset, Kavi Gupta, Chicago, IL
Holding Environments – Essay accompanying ‘Miss Kilman + She Were Terrible Together,’ Hills Esthetic Center
Artforum.com – Carmel Buckley + Mark Harris, Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, DE
Artforum.com – Tony Greene, Iceberg Projects, Chicago IL
Newcity – Anatomical Theaters of Mixed Reality, National Museum of Health and Medicine, Chicago, IL
Newcity – Sebastian Black + India Donaldson, Queer Thoughts, Chicago, IL
Newcity – Edward Gorey, LUMA, Chicago, IL
Art Papers – Neither Queer Nor There: Categories, Assemblages, and Transformations
Chicago Artist Writers – Editor in Residence introductory text
Artforum.com – Dana DeGiulio, Suburban, Chicago, IL
Artforum.com – Elijah Burgher, Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL
Newcity – Lauren Edwards, Andrew Rafacz Gallery, Chicago, IL
Newcity – Painting Super Bodies essay
Newcity – Guyth, Dos Perros, Chicago, IL
Newcity – Gaylen Gerber, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Newcity – Rehearsal Attire, Slow, Chicago, IL
Artforum.com – The Living Room, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
Odd Things, Strange Bodies + Queer Spaces: Anthony Luensman’s “Taint”
I Dreamed, I Wrote: Notes on Judith Brotman’s Recent Work, The Bike Room
Chicago Artist Writers – Micro Meditation: Evan Jenkins
Proposals for the Present: Suzanne Silver at Aisle
Rainbows at Either Ending: Thoughts on U·turn and Alternative Culture
The Middle of White: A Recipe + Narrative Discussing Sarah Blyth-Stephens + Michelle Grabner, U·turn Art Space, Cincinnati, OH
Art Papers – Yamini Nayar, Pearlman Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
Making Suggestions: Carmel Buckley and Joel Fisher at Aisle, Cincinnati, OH
Art(work) and Critical Play (Leisure) – Keith Benjamin, ‘Unemployed Title,’ U·turn Art Space, Cincinnati, OH
Art Papers – Ree Morton, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
Boy and Shadow Together – Essay accompanying Joey Versoza’s ‘moon in the wall, hope it don’t dissolve’ at U·turn Art Space, January 2010
Sculpture – Carmel Buckley, Weston Art Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
Sculpture – Gedi Sibony, Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
Art Papers – Anri Sala, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
Art Papers – Thomas Macaulay, Weston Art Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
Art Papers – Karen Finley, Miami University, Oxford, OH
Art Papers – Suzanne Silver, Weston Art Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
Citybeat – Final Fantasies
Citybeat – A Drag Dream Team
Citybeat – Yes to YES
Citybeat – John Coplans
Citybeat – Alison Crocetta
Citybeat – Maidens of the Cosmic Body Running
Citybeat – Joey Versoza
Citybeat – Keith Haring
Citybeat – The Michael Lowe Collection at Country Club
Citybeat – Best Alternative Gallery Shows 2010
Citybeat – Francesco Goya
Citybeat – Bruce Burris + Aaron Oliver Wood
Citybeat – Rosson Crow
Citybeat – Kris Ebeling
Citybeat – Kristine Donnelly
Citybeat – Thom Shaw
Citybeat – Pones Inc.
Citybeat – Antonio Adams + Tony Dotson + Kitty Cat Extravaganza
Citybeat – Cholla the Painting Horse
Citybeat – Pictures at Statues at Country Club
Citybeat – Pat Steir
Citybeat – FUTURE BLOOMS
Citybeat – Karen Finley
Citybeat – Shephard Fairey
Citybeat – Kim Flora
Citybeat – Alice Pixley Young, RIck Mallette, Steve Zeiverink
Citybeat – Best Alternative Gallery Shows 2009
Citybeat – Kingdom of Nature at Country Club
Citybeat – Donald Lipski, Ann Hamilton, Amy Kao + others at Carl Solway Gallery
Citybeat – Casey Riordan Millard + Ryan Mulligan
Citybeat – Nathan Hurst
Citybeat – Judy Pfaff
Citybeat – Camera Obscura at Prairie
Citybeat – Peter Voshefski
Citybeat – Amitesh Shrivastava
Citybeat – Paige Williams + Jeffrey Cortland Jones
Citybeat – Stewart Goldman
Citybeat – Tara Donovan
Citybeat – Joan Snyder, Hans Hoffman, Joan Miró, Fred Tomaselli at Carl Solway Gallery
Citybeat – Pat Renick
Citybeat – Gregory Corso
Citybeat – Althea Murphy-Price
Citybeat – Maria Lassnig
Citybeat – Ohad Meromi
Citybeat – Lynda Benglis
Citybeat – Paper Chasers at ArtWorks
Citybeat – Obsolete at Feralmade
Citybeat – Matthew Dayler
Citybeat – Will Hutchinson
Citybeat – Terence Hammonds
Citybeat – You Should Have Been There
Citybeat – Christian Schmit
Citybeat – Covington Catholic Student Exhibition
Citybeat – Nick Hill + Zach Rawe
Citybeat – Kim Flora, Manfest Gallery, 2007
Citybeat – Rhonda Gushee
Citybeat – Deana Ann Rennick
Citybeat – Laura Alich + Katie Koga
an archive of my additional writing for Citybeat, Cincinnati, OH (2007–2011)