EXHIBITION ESSAYS
NAPOLEON launched a written response series in the Fall of 2012.
Invited writers, both local and national, pen essays to accompany shows in an effort to extend the conversation at work in the gallery. With a lively exchange of critique between writer and artist, the accompanying essay offer a deeper interpretation for the visiting audience to consider the greater context of the work on display. The essays are available online and, during the exhibition run, in hard-copy for free in the gallery.
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[ALL EXHIBITION ESSAYS]
THE MIND MADE MATERIAL: AN ESSAY BY ANNE CROSS FOR MARIANNE DAGES’S INTO THE VALLEY
MODUS OPERANDI: STATEMENTS ON APPARATUS
REFLECT/COLLECT: AN ESSAY ON THE ONES WE KNOW
SUSPENDED POLARITIES IN NICK FAGAN’S TOO BUSY TO 86: AN ESSAY BY RAMEY MIZE
KATIE KATIE: AN INTERVIEW WITH KATIE LOCKE BY NORA MAPP
LIGHTED GEOGRAPHIES: SPACE, MEMORY, AND KNOWLEDGE IN LAUREN ROSENTHAL’S TOPOGRAPHIES AND RICH HOGAN’S UNTITLED, PHOTOGRAPHS – AN ESSAY BY HILARY R. WHITHAM
F(L)AT: F(L)AT : AN ESSAY BY THE MEMBERS OF SOIL
H. JOHN THOMPSON’S TROUBLE LIGHT: AN ESSAY BY JOHN VICK
FRIENDS AND DUSKS AND DAWNS: LUCIA THOMÉ’S SOLO SUMMER: AN ESSAY BY H. JOHN THOMPSON
A CALL AND RESPONSE FOR THE DIGITAL AGE: THINKING ABOUT 3: NICHOLA KINCH, JAMES MAURELLE, AND TAMARA SUBER: AN ESSAY BY MATT SINGER
EMBRACING THE INUNDATING WASH OF EXCESS: AMY BOONE-MCCREESH’S “I COME IN PEACE” AT NAPOLEON: AN ESSAY BY EVAN LAUDENSLAGER
RITUAL INCORPORATED: AN ESSAY ON SASCHA HUGHES-CALEY’S NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE OTHER SIDE BY ROKSANA FILIPOWSKA
BRECHT AND TALEVSKI: PROPOSALS FOR MONUMENTS: AN ESSAY BY MICHELLE CADE
INSIDE AND OUTSIDE: AN ESSAY ON LESLIE FRIEDMAN’S GO HOME BY DEBORAH KRIEGER
HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT: On Evan Paul English’s CAMOUFLAGED, An Essay by Liza Coviello
Fields of Resonance: An essay by Lutz Koepnick for COOP Collective
Secrecy, Surveillance and a Dead Joseph Beuys: Marc Blumthal’s SuperCuts: An Essay by Kelly Montana
The Spaces In Between: Tamsen Wojtanowski and Elaine Livingstone’s Yard: An Essay by Clare Finin
Invisible City: Shane Darwent’s Southside All Stars An essay by Rachel White
Eunjung Park: Arrangements An Essay by Kayla Romberger
Wind Shapes The Mountain, Sand Is Many Men: Two Poems for Thomas Dexter By Devin Powers
Cyclic: Modes of Collaboration An essay by Dominique Ellis
Equal Hand: A correspondence between the exhibiting artist, Daniel Petraitis, and fellow artist Adelita Husni-Bey
Making a Trade: A Conversation with Patrick Coughlin Interview by Jordan Rockford
Indirect Translation: An Essay on New Work by Marianne Dages By Sarah Hulsey
UNDERSTUDY: The Work of Peter Cotroneo, Alex Ibsen, Brad Jamula and Mark Martinez by Kristen Mills
WHAT HAPPENED (T)HERE: Lewis Colburn, On This Site: An Essay by Sarah Kim
Holding Our Own: John Thompson’s invisible travelers: An essay by Sally Eckhoff
An Essay by Liza Coviello: devynn emory’s Personal Public: On Gender Variance in Performance Art
Excavating the Layers: Maggie Casey’s Breaker, an Essay By Liza Coviello
Perfect Lovers: A Conversation with Tyler McPhee and Lauren Findlay
Traveler, Not Tourist: The work of Kathryn Armstrong: An Essay by Paula Katz
On Kris Strawser’s Switch: An Essay by Nancy Mahl
Discovering the Space Between: C. Pazia Mannella and Tamsen Wojtanowski, An essay by Jillian Matthews
Emerging from Alexis Hugo Nutini’s Chrysalis, an Essay by Christa DiMarco
Chad States: Night Sweats Curatorial Statement by Jordan Rockford
The Secret Handshake: An Essay on Gay, Jewish, or Both By Shelley Spector
Resembly: NAPOLEON’s As first as exactly By Zach Savich
subTRACTION: The Magic of Miniatures An Essay by Janette Chien
Authenticity and Artifice: Lewis Colburn’s Noble Amateur by Darcy Van Buskirk
Sublimity within a Birdcage: An Essay on the work of James Weingrod by Heather Castro
Mediated Matter in the Perpetual Present by Elizabeth Kauffman
Things I Know About Rocks : Thoughts on Austin Ballard’s The Indivisibles at NAPOLEON by Emily Davidson
A Good Question: Marc Blumthal’s The Flame and The Flower by Charles Fox
Folding Space to Bring You Back by Courtney Mandryk
Forces Not Forms: Christopher Hartshorne’s Crash Blossom by Alison McMenamin
Immigrants, Superheros, and the Resurrection of Christ: The Works of Grimaldi Baez by Janette Chien and Wayne Kleppe
Christina Roth & Tamsen Wojtanowski: One More Day: An Essay by Jennifer Zarro
Primordial Ink: Alexis Nutini’s Synthesized Worlds by Sophie Sanders
Thoughts on the Faultless Aesthetic: A Letter to Matt Ziemke from Benjamin Teague
Search and Rescue: Diagrams of Monotony and Distress in the Work of Dustin Campbell by Addie Langford
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