Exhibition Essays
Southern Artists and Their Discontents Frist Art Museum 2025
Exhibition statement for Shannon Cartier Lucy: Silver Bells and Cockle Shells Galerie Hussenot 2024
Select articles and art reviews
A Museum-Goer’s Guide to Mary Sully and Kimowan Metchewais Nashville Scene 2026
Clay Mates: The Ceramicists Taking Over Nashville’s Art Scene Nashville Scene 2026
Examining Nashville’s Presence at the 61st Venice Biennale. Nashville Scene 2026
Many Ways of Seeing and the Complicated Legacy of the Stieglitz Collection Nashville Scene 2026
Photographer LeXander Bryant Shows How Dirt Roads Can Be High Art Nashville Scene 2025
How an Exhibition of Historic Photography Can Feel Prophetic Nashville Scene 2025
What Nashville Artists Are Doing About Cuts to Federal Funding Nashville Scene 2025
Arielle Gray Is Making Intimate, Innovative Photography Nashville Scene 2025
Faye Driscoll Understands the Importance of Provocation Nashville Scene 2025
Tamara Reynolds’ Photography Series The Drake Stirs at CoOP Nashville Scene 2024
A Nashville Woman’s Side Hustle Is Being an Artist’s Model for Philip Pearlstein Nashville Scene 2024
Four Art Books From 2024 That Are Bound to Inspire BookPage 2024
Talking With Troy Montes-Michie About Disruption, Collage and His Works in ‘Multiplicity’ Nashville Scene 2023
The Talented Professor Henry: On Enigmatic Artist Alicia Henry Nashville Scene 2023
Photographer Kristine Potter Reflects on the Southern Gothic Landscape Nashville Scene 2023
Jeffrey Gibson on 'Fame,' Fame, and his upcoming Frist Art Museum Exhibition Nashville Scene 2023
Karen Seapker Is Making Paintings About Gardens, Pride and Sadness Nashville Scene 2023
A Solo Exhibit From Sai Clayton Explores the Dual Nature of Biracialism Nashville Scene 2023
Digital Underground: The Nashville Queer History Project Is Digitizing LGBTQ History Nashville Scene 2022
Sketch Artists: Your Guide Through ‘Drawers,’ the Fourth Adult Contemporary Exhibition Nashville Scene 2022
‘African Modernism in America’ Shows the Influence of Cross-Continental Communication Nashville Scene 2022
Sensual, Innovative Works by Zilia Sánchez Are Unexpectedly Moving Nashville Scene 2022
‘Past, Present, and Afrofuturism’ Marks an Evolution in XPayne, One of Nashville’s Most Original Artists Nashville Scene 2022
Playing It Cool: Light and Space, ‘Finish Fetish’ and the Endless Summer of the Frist’s LACMA Exhibition Nashville Scene 2022
Video Work by Mary Addison Hackett Is a Deadpan Artspeak Goldmine Nashville Scene 2022
A Conversation With Judith Linhares About Disaster, Space, and the Future Nashville Scene 2021
An Introduction to the Artists in ‘Futurephilia: Sex and Science Fiction in Contemporary Art’ Nashville Scene 2021
Timeless Exhibitions by Alicia Henry and William Eggleston Nashville Scene 2021
Highlights From the Frist’s Extensive Survey of Picasso’s Figurative Work Nashville Scene 2021
Horny on Main: HUMP! Will Disrupt the Way You See, Make, and Share Porn Nashville Scene 2021
Five Things To Know About Kara Walker on the Occasion of Her Exhibit at the Frist Nashville Scene 2021
Kink Takes a Hit: Nashville’s Kink-Positive Community Grapples With Safety Protocol Nashville Scene 2021
What Good Are Galleries? How Art Galleries Are Adjusting During the Pandemic Nashville Scene 2020
How the Sex Industry Is Handling the COVID-19 Pandemic Nashville Scene 2020
Talking With Shannon Cartier Lucy About Her Painting ‘Morning Prayer’ Nashville Scene 2020
Jenna Westra Makes the Art She Wants to See Nashville Scene 2020
The Art of Healing: Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons wants to change the world through art Vanderbilt Magazine 2019
The Girl Next Door: A sex worker gets candid about the profession’s highs and lows Nashville Scene 2019
Eleanor Aldrich, ‘Main Squeeze,’ at Channel to Channel Art in America 2019
A Night at The Mark: Our Intrepid Arts Editor Reports From Nashville’s Sexiest Fetish Party Nashville Scene 2019
Discussing Black Artists and the South With Critic and Curator Antwaun Sargent Nashville Scene 2019
A Conversation With Legendary Gee’s Bend Quilt Artist Louisiana Bendolph Nashville Scene 2019
Wayne White Pays Tribute to Coked-Up Country Stars Vice 2018
David Onri Anderson, ‘Earthbound,’ at Elephant Gallery Art in America 2018
'Beautiful Losers' Turns Ten This Month, But It Still Feels Radical Vice 2018
Nashville's Art Scene Is Cooler Than You Think It Is Vice 2018
Todd Bienvenu’s ‘Endless Bummer’ Does for the Summer of ’96 What Bryan Adams Did for ’69 Vice 2017
‘Grand Ole Opera’ Is a Surreal Hesher Paradise Vice 2017
Paul Anthony Smith Recreates Memories With Photographic Collage Vice 2017
Nina Chanel Abney Explores Sex, Race and the Internet With Rainbow Hues Vice 2017
Masturbation Meets Shamanism in Elijah Burgher’s Ritual Process Vice 2017
Book reviews
Cut Out: A Feminist History of Photo Collage, Montage and Assemblage, By Fiona Rogers
The World of Black Film, By Ashley Clark
The Female Body in Art, By Amy Dempsey
The Domestic Stage, By Adam Murray
Black Earth Rising: Colonialism and Climate Change in Contemporary Art, By Ekow Eshun
Magnum America: The United States
About Face: Stonewall, Revolt, and New Queer Art, by Jonathan D. Katz
The African Gaze: Photography, Cinema and Power, by Amy Sall
Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood, by Hettie Judah
An Encyclopedia of Gardening for Colored Children, by Jamaica Kincaid and Kara Walker
A Sense of Shifting: Queer Artists Reshaping Dance, by Coco Romack and Yael Malka
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