Selected Writings

CATALOG ESSAY

Janice Nowinski / Mirrors / Thomas Erben Galley / 2025

Throughout the history of European painting, the compendium of female nudes privileges the artifice of the watched woman mid-performance. More…

ESSAY

Visual Critic Series / Richard Diebenkorn Foundation

“I think it’s hard for an artist to see himself, really.
I’m aware of a predisposition to spareness, or aloneness is something I value…”

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AFTERWORD

I Seem to Live [vol.2] The New York Diaries, 1969-2011
Jonas Mekas

Charity Coleman wrote the afterword for the second volume of Jonas Mekas’s diaries. I Seem to Live [vol. 2] The New York Diaries, 1969–2011 continues with the meticulous description of his life in New York’s underground art scene. More…

CATALOG ESSAY

Shona McAndrew / Rose-Tinted Glasses / Chart Gallery / 2023

Shona McAndrew’s career began with self-portraiture, but she has spent recent years painting and sculpting other women. More…

AFTERWORD

Nathlie Provosty / [a partial list of falling] / artist’s book / prose by Charity Coleman More…

PROSE

a queer anthology of healing / Edited by Richard Porter

“…a subtle, devastating mix of cuteness and embarrassment, beauty and confession, magic tricks and pain.” -Chris Kraus

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ARTFORUM REVIEW

Julia Haft-Candell / Candice Madey

In “Carrier Bag of Fiction” at Candice Madey, Julia Haft-Candell’s ceramic sculptures were imbued with language; they read as origin stories in a state of revision. More…

ARTFORUM REVIEW

Shannon Ebner / kaufmann repetto

One way to discern how something works is to take it apart, and Shannon Ebner does this dismantling well. More…

BOMB REVIEW

WINTER 2021 / EDITOR’S CHOICE / Matt Keegan’s 1996

1996 does not aim to encapsulate so much as contextualize an accelerated trajectory of global transition. More…