recent & selected writing
Recent
“Isca Greenfield-Sanders: The Language of Flowers”, catalogue essay
“The Story of Printmaking: A Global History of Art,” Hyperallergic
“The Self-Invention of Helene Schjerfbeck,” Hyperallergic
“Manet & Morisot,” Hyperallergic
“Hidden Portraits: Six Women Who Shaped Picasso’s Life,” Hyperallergic
Selected
“Knife Woman: The Life of Louise Bourgeois,” Hyperallergic
“The Danish Women Who Made Modernism Radical,” Hyperallergic
“Renaissance, MT,” Alta Journal
“Woman’s Work: Emily Beeny at the Legion of Honor”, Alta Journal
“Esther Pressoir is the Coolest Artist You’ve Never Heard Of,” Hyperallergic
“Seven Famous Postwar American Artists from the Bay Area,” Nob Hill Gazette
“The Contrived Rivalry Between Two Pioneering French Women Artists,” Hyperallergic
“Art as Artificial Intelligence,” Alta Journal
“Tracing the Hand of Botticelli,” Hyperallergic
“Richard Mayhew’s Mindscapes,” SquareCylinder
“Rupy C. Tut’s Landscapes of Belonging,” Hyperallergic
“All the Beauty in the World,” Hyperallergic
“Joan Brown: The Art World Darling Who Went Rogue”, Hyperallergic
“Rosa Bonheur at Musée d’Orsay,” Hyperallergic
“Anne Truitt’s Yield,” On the Seawall
“Joan Mitchell, a Brilliant Painter and Contrarian at Heart,” Hyperallergic
“Judy Chicago: A Retrospective Long Overdue,” Alta Journal
“What Should We Call the Great Women Artists?” Hyperallergic
“In Knausgaard’s Essays on Art, No Thought Goes Unexamined,” Hyperallergic
“The Story of Sojourner Truth,” Narrative Magazine
“Rereading Georgia O’Keeffe’s Biography in a New Light,” Hyperallergic
“Museum on the Edge: Thomas Campbell and the de Young Open,” Alta
“Mary Cassatt’s Independent, Feminist Spirit,” Hyperallergic
“What Women’s Suffrage Owes to Indigenous Culture,” Yes!
“The Forgotten History of Women’s Suffrage in the United States,” Fortune
“Recommended Reading: Vanessa Hua’s Just Like Us,” Electric Literature
“Knausgaard Finds a Soulmate in Edvard Munch,” Hyperallergic
“Pilots: A Memoir,” Narrative Magazine
“Nell Painter’s Old in Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over,” San Francisco Chronicle
“Remembering Linda Nochlin’s Revolutionary Retelling of Art History,” Ms. Magazine
“Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson,” San Francisco Chronicle
“Why Edvard Munch Began Painting Portraits of the Soul,” Hyperallergic
“Broad Strokes: An Essay,” Narrative Magazine
“Alice Neel: How to Persevere and Live the Artist’s Life,” LitHub
“Smokehouse: A Memoir” Narrative Magazine
“At Swim, Two Girls: A Memoir” Narrative Magazine