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

Casa Susanna: The Story of the First Trans Network in the United States, 1959-1968, by Isabelle Bonnet and Sophie Hackett

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