Published Writing/ Interviews
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ESSAYS IN BOOKS, EXHIBITION CATALOGUES, AND ARTISTS WEBSITES
Transformations: Candace Garlock and The Animal Spirit, www.candacenicolgarlock.com, 2024
Reading Nature, www.peggybatesart.com, 2022
Tracking Consciousness, www.deesolin.com, December 2020
Point Suite: Contemporary Art Book, Main Introduction. Active Ideas Productions, NY 2015
Thomas Frontini, Solo Exhibition, William Busta Gallery, Cleveland, OH. Catalog essay, 2011
D. Dominic Lombardi “Hidden Worlds” Central Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Catalog essay, 2010
Claudia Sperry, Solo Show, Oxbow Gallery, Northampton MA. Catalog essay, 2010
“Present Tense” at Available Potential Enterprise, Northampton MA. Catalog essay for group exhibition, 2009
Bhandari, Heather D. and Jonathan Melber. ART/WORK: Everything You Need to Know (and Do) As You Pursue Your Art Career. New York: Simon and Schuster, Inc, 2009. Quoted on pages 47. 77, 89, 137, 149, and 236.
Al Wadzinski, Solo Exhibition, NY Studio Gallery, NY. Catalog essay, 2009
Adela Leibowitz, Solo Exhibition, 33 Bond Gallery, NY. Catalog essay, 2009
Piao Guangxie "Good Luck" Soemo Fine Arts, Beijing, China: Catalog essay, 2008
Peter Barrett, Solo Exhibition, Ingalls & Associates Gallery, Miami Beach FL. Catalog essay, 2008
Thomas Frontini "Limbo Karma" Lawrence Asher Gallery, Los Angeles. Catalog essay, 2006
"Beautiful Dreamer" Spaces Gallery, Cleveland Ohio. Catalog essay for curated exhibition, 2006
“Starlight: New Works by Emmanuelle Gauthier” Short text in self published catalog, 2005
“Carla Gannis: Travelogue” Pablo’s Birthday, New York. Catalogue essay, 2004
Diana Shpungin and Nicole Engelmann "Second Generation Ego" University of Massachusetts Amherst, Hampden Gallery, brochure text 2004
Leemour Pelli “Five Year Retrospective" University of Central Florida Orlando, UCF Gallery, exhibition catalog essay, 2003
"Peggy Bates: Water Rocks" Tobey Fine Arts, New York. Catalog essay, 1998.
"Art Is Where The Home Was (The Final Exhibition of Foramen Magnum Gallery). Short essay for group exhibition catalog, 1996
ESSAYS ON ARTISTIC PRACTICE / EXHIBITION & BOOK REVIEWS
"The Nolan Preece Story, Part Three: Endings and Beginnings" - November 7, 2024
"A New Territory: Isolde Kille at Uncool Gallery, Brooklyn" November 3, 2024
"Portraits of Fractured Fables: The Paintings of James Greco" - October 18, 2024
"An Appetite for Disruption: The Legacies of Dave Tourje" -October 10, 2024
"Interstellar Affinities" Anne Marchand at The Phillips Museum of Art - September 24, 2024
"Ontologically Bound: The Sculptures of Saint Clair Cemin" - September 12, 2024
"The Nolan Preece Story, Part Two: In Art, In Land, and In Love (with Life)" - September 5, 2024
"Paragons of Techno-Primitivism" Jerome Chechik at Affiliated Artists Initiatives - July 25, 2024
"The Sound of Vision" Karl Gerstner at Meredith Rosen Gallery" - May 16, 2024
"The Book of Brothers" California Locos: Renaissance and Rebellion" by Dave Tourjé, Shana Nys Dambrot, Michelle Deziel-Hernandez, Chaz Bojórquez, and Lauren Over. [Book Review] - May 14, 2024
“The Nolan Preece Story, Part One: The Education of a Photographer ” - March 3, 2024
“A Palimpsest Of The Unseen” Steve Simpson at The New York Hall of Science - February 13, 2024
“The Seduction of Selection: Appropriation Art In History and Today” Jan 14, 2024
“Blood Memory" Nicole Williams at Photofairs NY - December 23, 2023
“Betwen and Elegy and The Mountains" My Father's Work Shed: Paintings And Poems by Bart O’Reilly [Book Review] - Dec 14, 2023
“Stacking The Rainbow" Scott Richter at Elizabeth Harris Gallery, September 2002 - December 9, 2023
"Sight Into Mind" 3-D Experimental VR and Art Practices: Untangling Another Dimension by Rebecca Hackemann, University of Minnesota Press, 2023 [Book Review] - November 25, 2023
"Jeanne Wilkinson and The Cloud Connection" - September 10, 2023
“Escape Velocity/Dellamarie Parrili “Living in Technicolor" with KTC Artist Affiliates - August 25, 2023
"Storms Worth Naming/ "Mapping the Creative Moment" at KTC Artist Affiliates - August 15, 2023
"Eric Sanders: A Personal History of Emergence" - August 2, 2023
“Leah Oates: The Transitory Instinct” - July 7, 2023
https://davidgibsonwriting.substack.com/p/the-transitory-instinct
"Jim Singelis: Being, The Story" - June 21, 2023
https://davidgibsonwriting.substack.com/p/jim-singelis-being-the-story
"Eric Sanders and The Active Symbol" - May 16, 2023
https://davidgibsonwriting.substack.com/p/eric-sanders-and-the-active-symbol
"Bill Durgin: The Story of the Body" - April 8, 2023
https://davidgibsonwriting.substack.com/p/the-story-of-the-body
"Gregory de la Haba: Divining The Magic Number" - February 18, 2023
https://davidgibsonwriting.substack.com/p/art-encounters-gregory-de-la-haba
"Ann Kraus: Illustrating Infinity" - January 23, 2023
https://davidgibsonwriting.substack.com/p/art-encounters-ann-kraus
"Also A Daughter/ Ada Calhoun's memoir "Also A Poet" [Book Review] - November 10, 2022
https://davidgibsonwriting.substack.com/p/also-a-daughter
"The Poet Unmasked/ Eve Packer's "No Mask No Talk" [Book Review] - October 1, 2022
https://davidgibsonwriting.substack.com/p/the-poet-unmasked/comments
"Amanda C Mathis: Tracking The Marks of Memory" - May 15, 2022
https://davidgibsonwriting.substack.com/p/tracking-the-marks-of-memory
"Between The Pen and The Brush, An Interview with Dawn Delikat" - January 20, 2022
https://davidgibsonwriting.substack.com/p/between-the-pen-and-the-brush
"Joseba Eskubi: The Resistant Reflection" - April 3, 2022
https://davidgibsonwriting.substack.com/p/the-resistant-reflection
"One Night At A Time/ “Our Souls at Night" by Kent Haruf [Book Review] - March 8, 2022
https://davidgibsonwriting.substack.com/p/one-night-at-a-time
"The Prismatic and Manic Collage Rhythms of Bernice Sokol Kramer" December 15, 2021
https://davidgibsonwriting.substack.com/p/the-prismatic-and-manic-collage-rhythms
"Andrea Burgay/The Actual Arranged, A Reliquary To Ruin, And Other Feats" - September 30, 2021
https://davidgibsonwriting.substack.com/p/the-actual-arranged-a-reliquary-to
"Raphael Zollinger and The Beauty of Forgetting" - September 4, 2021
https://davidgibsonwriting.substack.com/p/raphael-zollinger-and-the-beauty
"The Making of Unmaking 2" 2021
https://davidgibsonwriting.substack.com/p/the-making-of-unmaking-2
"How The Plots Became Fiendish, An Interview" 2021
https://davidgibsonwriting.substack.com/p/how-the-plots-became-fiendish
"The Making of Unmaking" 2021
https://davidgibsonwriting.substack.com/p/the-making-of-unmaking
"Courting Complexity" January 2021
https://davidgibsonwriting.substack.com/p/courting-complexity
David Adamo at Untitled New York, FRIEZE MAGAZINE,January 2014
https://www.frieze.com/article/david-adamo-0
"The Low Road: The Cultural Landscape of The Bowery" at The New Museum, ARTILLERY MAGAZINE, January 2013
https://artillerymag.com/the-low-road/
Dike Blair at Feature, Inc, FRIEZE MAGAZINE, September 2013
https://www.frieze.com/article/dike-blair-1
"OFF THE SHELF: The Catcher in the Rye" PLAYSPACE MAGAZINE Volume 1, 2012
Jason Middlebrook at Dodge Gallery, FLASH ART, March 2012
https://dodge-gallery.com/artists/MIDDLEBROOK23174/press/DODGE_Gallery_90981.pdf
Hrvoje Slovenc profile, ARTILLERY MAGAZINE. Volume 6, Issue 5, June-July 2012 p. 48
“The Bushwick Biennial” ART NOTES, September 2009
https://www.gibsoncontemporary.com/post/the-bushwick-biennial-for-art-notes
Fortress to Solitude, ART NOTES #10, Fall 2009
Marcy Brafman “Devotion in Motion” Vellum Artzine #5, 2007
Amanda Church at Michael Steinberg. ART NOTES, 2007
Allan McCollum at Friedrich Petzel. ART NOTES, 2007
Carroll Dunham at Gladstone. ART NOTES, 2007
Amanda Church “Between The Lines” at Michael Steinberg Gallery, ART NOTES, Fall 2006
https://articlemagazine.blogspot.com/2006/06/between-lines.html
Matthew McCaslin "Mining The Urban Divide" PERFORMING ARTS JOURNAL #77 2004
David Henry Brown Jr at Daniel Silverstein, ZINGMAGAZINE # 2002
Tracy Nakayama at Modern Culture, FLASH ART # 2002
Roe Ethridge at Andrew Kreps, FLASH ART # 2002
Ge-Karel van der Sterren at Henry Urbach Architecture, FLASH ART ONLINE 2002
Sandra Bermudez feature, NY ARTS # 2002
On Kawara at David Zwirner, C MAG #69, March 2001
https://cmagazine.com/articles/on-kawara-david-zwirner-gallery-new-york
Lisa Stefanelli at Pierogi, ZINGMAGAZINE, Volume 13, pp. 246-247, Autumn 2000,
https://zingmagazine.com/issues/zingmagazine13/?modal=the-reflections-the-reviews-the-reactions
Moyra Davie at American Fine Arts, ZINGMAGAZINE, Volume 13, pp. 230-231, Autumn 2000, https://zingmagazine.com/issues/zingmagazine13/?modal=the-reflections-the-reviews-the-reactions
"Abstraction in Process II" at Artists Space, NY SOHO ARTS, 1998
"Original Scale" at Apex Art, NY SOHO ARTS, 1998
Mona Hatoum at The New Museum, NY SOHO ARTS, 1998
Peggy Bates at Tobey Fine Arts, ZINGMAGAZINE Volume 6, Summer Issue, pp.181-82, 1998
https://zingmagazine.com/issues/zingmagazine6/
Annette Messager at Gagosian, C MAG #53, May 1997
https://cmagazine.com/articles/annette-messager-gagosian-gallery-new-york
Jose Antonio Hernandez-Diez at Sandra Gering, NY SOHO ARTS, 1997
Nancy Spero at Jack Tilton, PPOW, and NY Kunsthalle, NY SOHO ARTS, 1997
Roxy Paine at Ronald Feldman, ZINGMAGAZINE Volume 4, pp. 301-302, 1997
https://zingmagazine.com/issues/zingmagazine4/?modal=the-reflections-the-reviews-the-reactions
The Cowboy Wally Show by Kyle Baker, Graphic novel review, COVER ARTS, 1996
Jim Toia at Kim Foster, COVER ARTS, 1996
After Andy: Soho in the Eighties by Paul Taylor, book review, COVER ARTS, 1996
Dionisio Blanco at Barnard Biederman Fine Art, COVER ARTS , 1996
Petah Coyne at Laurence Miller, COVER ARTS , 1996
ESSAYS COMMISSIONED BY ARTISTS
2025: Leah Oates
2024: Saint-Clair Cemin, Gregory de la Haba, Alvin Roy, David Tourje, Dina White, Jeremiah Chechik, Janell Turner
2023: Gregory de la Haba, Rebecca Hackemann, Leah Oates, Dellamarie Parrilli, Eric Sanders, Steve Simpson, Jim Singelis, Jeanne Wilkinson
2022: Peggy Bates
2021: Han Bing, Fox Pretorius, Jennifer Zackin
2020: Rainer Ganahl, Jason Hackenwerth, Ann Kraus, Dee Solin
2018: Pat Benincasa, Arleen Joseph, Virginia Katz, Katherine Parker
2016: Graciela Cassel, Richard Rivera, Amy Sands
2014: Peggy Bates, Annika Connor, Elsie Kagan,
2012: Carter Hodgkin, Leah Oates, Daniel Sewell, Dee Solin, Michael Zansky
2011: Thomas Frontini
2010: D. Dominic Lombardi, Claudia Sperry
2009: Timothy Blum, Sean Greene, Adela Leibowitz
2008: Peter Barrett
2007: Leah Oates
2006: Thomas Frontini
2004: Carla Gannis
2003: Leemour Pelli
2002: Liz-N-Val
1998: Peggy Bates
1997: Rosa Silver
ESSAYS COMMISSIONED BY GALLERIES
Emil Alzamora "Supernumerary" MIKE WEISS GALLERY ONLINE PROJECT 2018
Elisa Johns "Ghost Flower" MIKE WEISS GALLERY ONLINE PROJECT 2018
Cui XuanJi "Suspension" catalogue essay KU ART CENTER, Seoul, Korea, 2007
Carla Gannis "Travelogue" catalogue essay PABLO'S BIRTHDAY, 2004
OTHER BLOGGING
2020 ART HOLDING PATTERN: "Decoder Ring: The Paintings of Karla Knight"
2020 A READING SPACE "Andre Dubus: The Power of the Ordinary"
2020 ART HOLDING PATTERN: "Color Rush: The Paintings of Bernhard Buhmann"
2018 ART QUIPS Francine Tint at Cavalier Gallery
2017 ART QUIPS "Free Form Five" at Elga Wimmer Gallery
2017 THE GIBSON REPORT Number Five: Eric Brown "Punctuate" at Theodore: Art
2017 THE GIBSON REPORT Number Four: Studio Journal with Keiko Narahashi
2017 THE GIBSON REPORT Number Three: Kathleen Elliot The Denatured Truth
2016 ART QUIPS "Currents in Photography" at Walter Wickiser Gallery
2016 THE GIBSON REPORT Number One: Brie Ruais
2015 PLAYSPACE MAGAZINE: Terry Haggerty at Sikkema Jenkins and Co
2015 PLAYSPACE MAGAZINE: Sandra Gottlieb at NY Hall of Science
2015 STUDIO JOURNAL A Visit with Janice Caswell
2015 STUDIO JOURNAL A Visit with Dean Monogenis
2015 STUDIO JOURNAL A Visit with Keiko Narahashi
2014 ART QUIPS Rob Mango at Elga Wimmer
2014 ART QUIPS Gloria Garfinkel at George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum
2014 ART QUIPS "100 Paintings: An Artist's Life in NY City" by Rob Mango
2014 THRESHOLDING Tom Fruin at Mike Weiss Gallery
2014 THRESHOLDING Presenting Josh Peters
2008 ART QUIPS Arthur Cohen at Jack the Pelican Presents
2007 ARTICLE "On the Sixth Day"
2007 THE GIBSON REPORT Number Two: Natural Selection with Joy Episalla
(Interview)
2005 WBURG "By Innocence Bound," Mike Cockrill at 31 Grand
1999 ARTICLE: Aaron Rose at Paul Kasmin