Writing

My latest book, Blood, Sweat, and Time: Emerging Perspectives on Mildred Howard and Adrian Burrell is available for purchase.

My writing has also been featured in a variety of outlets across the United States including KQED, Hyperallergic, and The Brooklyn Rail. Topics include various genres of Black visual cultures such as performance, photography, and visual art.

 
 

Blood, Sweat, and Time: Emerging Perspectives on Mildred Howard and Adrian Burrell

Freelance

  • Trina Michelle Robinson Looks to Make Her Mark on the Art World

    Trina Michelle Robinson, 'Baobab Tree, Senegal,' 2022. (Courtesy of MoAD)

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  • At SFMOMA, Adrian L. Burrell’s Collective Self-Portraits Defy Gravity

    Adrian L. Burrell, 'Regeneration' (featuring a mural by Twin Walls Mural Company), from the series 'It's After the End of the World, Don't You Know That Yet?,' 2020. (© Adrian L. Burrell)

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  • The Necessary Art of Leisure

    Sadie Barnette, Inheritance (2021), installation view at Jessica Silverman, San Francisco (photo by John Wilson White)

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  • Artist Hannah Waiters Invites Her Audience to Be Part of the Story

    Reframing Double Consciousness: The Four Corners of the World, Hannah Waiters and Narges Poursadeqi (2021)

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  • Aliyah Dunn-Salahuddin with Luke Williams

    Aliyah Dunn-Salahuddin, 2014. Photo: RJ Muna.

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  • Feeling the Fresh Air: Choreographing Breath in Chocolate Heads’ Riot of Spring

    RIOT OF SPRING in SPLICE: 5 Dance Films at Stanford Department of Theater and Performance, 2021. Pictured (L-R): Christopher Strong, Journey Washingtonhigh. Photo: Stanford TAPS.

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  • “It's Our Time Now”: The Aesthetics of Horror in Jordan Peele’s Us

    Lupita Nyong'o as Adelaide Wilson doppelgänger Red in Us, written, produced, and directed by Jordan Peele. Photo: Claudette Barius/Universal Pictures.

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  • Shimon Attie Resurrects “Hitler on Ice” With Afro-Brazilian Dance

    Shimon Attie, “Time Lapse Dance,” installation view at Catharine Clark Gallery (photo by John Janca)

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  • Black Portraiture is More Than a Market Fad in MoAD’s Amoako Boafo Show

    Amoako Boafo, detail of ‘Seye,’ 2019; oil on canvas. (Courtesy the artist and Roberts Projects, Los Angeles; photo by Robert Wedemeyer)

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  • Forged like Metal

    Stuart Robertson: Big Man Ting II (Out and Bad), 2021. Second Street Gallery. Photo credit Derrick Waller.

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  • Be, Being, Been – Together

    Still of ghostdance (2023) by Salimatu Amabebe. Courtesy of the Museum of the African Diaspora.

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SF/ARTS

  • Welcome to the Neighborhood

    Shimon Attie, Night Watch (Norris), 2021. Image courtesy the artist, Mullowney Printing and BOXBLUR.

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  • The Other Sistine Chapel: Nam June Paik

    Nam June Paik, Sistine Chapel, 1993 (installation view, Tate); courtesy the Estate of Nam June Paik; © Estate of Nam June Paik; photo: Andrew Dunkley © Tate

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  • Black History Month: The Heart of the Matter

    New Labor Movements. Lonnie Holley, Cyrus Moussavi - I Snuck Off the Slave Ship. Courtesy of the McEvoy Foundation.

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  • SF/Arts Highlights

    This season’s most exciting art in the Bay Area.

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  • Return to Realism

    "Luna sobre el mercado" ("Moon above the Market") 1929. Diego Rivera. Oil and wax on canvas 39 1/4 x 27 1/2 inches. Private collection, Mexico.

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  • Dreams Caused by Death: Kehinde Wiley at the de Young

    Kehinde Wiley, "Morpheus (Ndeye Fatou Mbaye)", 2022 oil on canvas

    ©️ 2022 Kehinde Wiley. Courtesy of the artist and Templon, Paris – Brussels – New York. Photo by Ugo Carmeni.

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