Georgia O’Keeffe and the Politics of Seeing
When Jesse’s girlfriend brought him to the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in season three of “Breaking Bad,” he was confounded why anyone would paint a door over and over again. Kinda psycho, he thought.
Georgia O’Keeffe: rewarding curiosity
Georgia O’Keeffe never piled on the paint. She worked wet-into-dry, pretty much a single layer of paint requiring serious control to choreograph her textural effects. Within this narrow range that she chose to work, her variations are virtuosic.
Georgia O’Keeffe’s final paintings
In case you missed my zoom talk, it's now available online! It's my first reading from the work-in-progress: Digging for…
You’re invited!
After years of researching and writing, I am giving my first public talk from my book manuscript, "Digging for Stars:…
Georgia O’Keeffe, Photographer
Georgia O’Keeffe spent 30 years with the legendary American photographer Alfred Stieglitz. She worked alongside him, posed for him, and…
Georgia O’Keeffe: what I meant, what you saw
The young Georgia O'Keeffe, working relentlessly to find her voice as an artist, was ambivalent about viewer reception. She longed…
Georgia O’Keeffe: Far, Wide Texas
As a critic and cultural historian, I find myself more curious about an artist’s formative moments than her culminating masterworks.…
