Commissions

Over the last years, I’ve been happy to receive commissions from art spaces, galleries and museums to produce texts alongside artist exhibitions. Normally, these commissions arrive out of bonds of friendship and on-going dialogue with particular artists. I have ended up writing a variety of different kinds of texts: sometimes essays that explore and contextualize the work, sometimes poems, once a key to the exhibition as if the art were a map, once a whole chapbook of poems and citations, and once a series of letters in an archive. I am putting links to all this work here, because it does not quite fit anywhere else. Somewhere between prose and poetry, experiments with form and materiality.

"Three poems." Texts for Gameplan, a catalogue of writing emerging from the Town Meeting 1978-2028: Symposium at Art League Houston organized by artists Nick Vaughn & Jake Margolin as Rendezvous Center for Art, Houston TX, 2025.

"To Trace by Motion: Becoming Co-Researcher with Melissa Gamez Herrera’s Color Code: How It Feels." Online catalogue essay at presahouse.com for a solo art exhibition, Color Code: How It Feels, by Melissa Gamez Herrera at Presa House Gallery, San Antonio TX, 2025.

"A Key for New Suns." Poems for a printed catalogue for News Suns, a solo art exhibition by Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud at Lawndale Art Center, Houston TX, 2024.

“An Altar for The Ocean Between Us: Loc Huynh’s Family Portraits.” Catalogue essay on Loc Huynh's work for Taking Care: 2021/2022 Lawndale Artist Studio Program Exhibition Catalogue, at Lawndale Art Center, Houston TX, 2022.

“One Thing Like Another, Mirroring: Ryan Crowley’s Sculptures.” Catalogue essay on Ryan Crowley's work for Taking Care: 2021/2022 Lawndale Artist Studio Program Exhibition Catalogue, at Lawndale Art Center, Houston TX, 2022.

Swamps Fly. Chapbook of poems for a solo art exhibition by Elana Mann, Sounds from the Swamp, with design and printing by Mystic Multiples, at Lawndale Art Center, Houston TX, 2021.