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2024
Against domestication: D Rosen exposes the false binary of violence and care. (
Chicago Reader)
Art 50: Chicago’s Visual Vanguard 2024
Anastasia Karpova Tinari, Jordan Martins + Kitty Rauth, Aaron Rodgers + Jen Tremblay Chambers + Mariela Acuña, Myriam Ben Salah + Karsten Lund (Newcity)
No dust to shake off: Sandra Binion at Experimental Sound Studio
(Chicago Reader)
Breakout Artists 2024: Chicago’s Next Generation of Image Makers
Nyeema Morgan (Newcity)
Jessi Woska creates one-of-a-kind chain stitched pieces
(Chicago Reader)
Murmuration lets artists take flight
(Chicago Reader)
It’s OK to laugh: High Energy News Music at Elastic Arts
(Chicago Reader)
Best dairy-free, usually plant-based precolonial Mexican food and packaged goods pop-up
(Chicago Reader)
Does our hair keep growing after we die?
Exhibition Essay for Nancy Lu Rosenheim (Epiphany Center for the Arts)
2023
Samantha Irby is midwest fancy: The irreverent author returns with new essay collection, Quietly Hostile.
(Chicago Reader)
Backyard bacchanal: Inside TXA TXA Club, one of Chicago’s hottest (and hardest to get) reservations.
(Chicago Reader)
Top 5 Booths at Barely Fair 2023
(Newcity)
2022
We keep us safe: At Gallery 400, Chicago artists and collectives explore forms of care.
(Chicago Reader)
Modeling vulnerability: Fatimah Asghar’s debut novel explores how grief impacts a family.
(Chicago Reader)
Healing Compositions: Audio Artist Kikù Hibino Pairs Memory With Sound
(Newcity)
The Things We Carry: A Review of Flattened Flora at Roots & Culture
(Newcity)
Breakout Artists 2022: Chicago’s Next Generation of Image Makers (Maryam Faridani)
(Newcity)
The best laid schemes of mice and men / Often go awry: On Kushala Vora for Bird Show
(Bird Show)
Earthly Delights: A Review of Dan Gunn at Monique Meloche Gallery
(Newcity)
2021
Reviewing Romanticism to Ruin: Two Lost Works of Sullivan and Wright
(Newcity)
Gregory Bae In Memoriam: A Blueprint for an Artistic Life
(Newcity)
What is Graphic Recording? For Kiyomi Negi-Tran, Service Art That Soars
(Newcity)
Breakout Artists 2021: Chicago’s Next Generation of Image Makers
(Max Guy)
(Newcity)
A Respite From The Waking Nightmare: A Review of Western Exhibitions Drawing Biennial
(Newcity)
2018
Exhibition Essay: The Art of Being Dangerous
(Hyde Park Art Center)
Breakout Artists 2018: Chicago's Next Generation of Image Makers (Melissa Leandro)
(Newcity)
The Bloom of the Present Moment, Chicago Works: Paul Heyer
(Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago)
2017
Breakout Artists 2017: Chicago’s Next Generation of Image Makers
(Paul Heyer)
(Newcity)
2016
Breakout Artists 2016: Chicago’s Next Generation of Image Makers
(Myra Greene)
(Newcity)
Ten questions from Erin Toale for Ethan Rose regarding his exhibition
"Slant"
(Regards)
Exhibition Essay: Daniel Bruttig's Singles, Duets and Sets (Firecat Projects)
2015
Don’t Call Us An Art Museum: Pitchfork at the MCA
(Newcity)
Review: Cosmosis/Hyde Park Art Center
(Newcity)
Breakout Artists 2015: Chicago’s Next Generation of Image Makers
(Jessica Campbell)
(Newcity)
Review: Eric Ruschman/Circa Modern
(Newcity)
The Bomber’s Life: Steppenwolf’s “This Is Modern Art” Looks at the Graffiti Artist
(Newcity)
Review: DOGS CHASE BALLS/Carrie Secrist Gallery
(Newcity)
Eye Exam: The Freakiest Show
(Newcity)
2014
EXPO Dispatches: Stick to the Perimeter
(Newcity)
EXPO Dispatches: Your Fair Survival Guide and Must-See Itinerary
(Newcity)
Art 50 2014: Chicago’s Artists’ Artists
(Michelle Grabner, Chris Ware, William Pope.L, Lou Mallozzi)
(Newcity)
Portrait of a Gallery: Comfort Station
(Newcity)
Review: We do what we like and we like what we do/Western Exhibitions
(Newcity)
Review: Murmurs/Regards
(Newcity)
Review: Unbound: Contemporary Art After Frida Kahlo/Museum of Contemporary Art
(Newcity)
Architecture Shake-Up: How Los Angeles Got Loose
(Newcity)