Prose

Here you can find a non-exhaustive assortment of my prose: essays, articles, reviews, and (non-commissioned) arts writing. I mainly write from my location in Texas about art and culture in and around this area, frequently writing with Northern Mexico in mind as well. In 2016, I was a recipient of the Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writing Grant. For a full CV with full publishing credits, email me at plujo7 at gmail dot com.

If Autumn Knight is Here: Nothing Less

At Southwest Contemporary (2024)

Accidental Beauty in Unexpected Shapes: María José Crespo

At Southwest Contemporary (2023)

Soy de Tejas: Home as open permeable itinerant and metaphysical?

At Southwest Contemporary (2023)

Letters to Forrest Bess

At Annulet (2022)

Karankawa Carancahua Carancagua Karankaway

In Geopoetics in Practice (2022)

SUMPANGO 3.JPG — Bienal de Arte Paiz Offers an Object Lesson

at artnet (2018)

Reading Houston’s Names: New & Old

at Cite Magazine (2018)

An Un-Memorial to All That Has Been Lost: Cecilia Vicuña

at Pelican Bomb (2017)

Screen Shot 2018-03-07 at 11.37.41 AM.png — Moving the Wreckage

at SF MOMA's Open Space (2017)

Screen Shot 2018-03-07 at 11.00.32 AM.png — In-Post Harvey Houston, Artists Can't Look Away

at artnet (2017)

Screen Shot 2018-03-07 at 11.34.50 AM.png — Race, Houston Gentrification, and the de Menil Legacy

at Entropy & Houston Chronicle (2016)

Screen Shot 2018-03-07 at 11.13.09 AM.png — I Am Not Dead, Yet: A Mesostic for Janet Fanjón

at BOMB Magazine (2015)

Flashpoints on the Road to Black and Brown Power: Sites of Struggle in Houston in the '60s and '70s

at Cite Magazine (2010)

Screen Shot 2018-03-07 at 11.21.33 AM.png — Writing at Cite

Screen Shot 2018-03-07 at 11.25.33 AM.png — Writing for Texas A+C

Writing at Southwest Contemporary

Screen Shot 2018-03-07 at 11.28.37 AM.png — Writing at Artforum

Older Archived Writing

Outward from Nothingness: "How Could “We” Forget: Thinking through Heriberto Yépez’s The Empire of Neomemory"; Assorted Other Pieces from a Month-Long Guest Editorship

Pastelegram: "Review of There is no archive in which nothing gets lost"

Temporary Art Review: "The Incredible Attack on Grammar, a.k.a. ¡Go, Monterrey, Go!"

Free Press Houston: “City Council Mayhem: El desmadre de la política local”

HMTLGiant: "Thinking Around Julian Brolaski's gowanus atropolis", There will be nothing left here but the sea: A Review of Campeche by Joshua Edwards", "It Takes Two, Baby: long past the presence of common by j/j hastain; Dear Failures by Trey Sager"

Literal Magazine: "Ilan Stavans's The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature", "An Interview with Joseph Mulligan"

Quarterly Conversation: "Review of Don Mee Choi's The Morning News is Exciting"

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