2026

Balancing Acts, my first solo exhibition, is currently on show at Zane Bennett Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico (January 30-May 2, 2026). It features a dozen sculptures that put clay in conversation with steel, rubber, rawhide, copper and wood.

Visit my Instagram page to watch the video below, sync’d to Jean de Fleur by the late jazz great Grant Green. (Make sure the audio is switched on!)

In three more Instagram videos, I discuss the ideas behind Kernel, Homage to CS, and They

I will give an Artist Talk at the gallery on Saturday March 28, 2026, free and open to all.

Other recent projects and publications include:

The ABCs of XYZ, (Ceramic Review (UK) July-August 2024), recounts my experience as a participant in the first workshop on 3D clay printing, held at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Maine, in summer 2023.

Corpus to Corpus, (Ceramic Review, September-October 2024), profiles the workshop’s instructor—artist and ‘techno-ceramist’ Timea Tihanyi—discussing her career path from neuropsychology to digital ceramics.

Daddy Wouldn’t Buy Me a Bauhaus: Portraits in Architecture and Design—Selected Writings of Janet Abrams (Princeton Architectural Press, 2020), which collects twenty-six of my in-depth profiles of leading US and European architects and designers, originally published in books and periodicals from the 1980s to the 2000s. Foreword by Deyan Sudjic, Director Emeritus of the Design Museum, London.

Quartz Inversion: Pandemic Ceramics showcases work by 64 international ceramic artists made during the first COVID-19 lockdown. The artists in QI Round One (launched June 2020) each nominated the artists in QI Round Two (December 2020). I designed, built, and edited the site, and co-curated Round One with the Indian ceramist Adil Writer.

WWW Drawing: Architectural Drawing from Pencil to Pixel (ACTAR, 2020)—based on a symposium held at the Drawing Center, New York— is the final component of the WWW Drawing Project that I produced at Penn State University’s Stuckeman School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture. I edited the book, which can be perused on issuu.com

A Counting / Accounting: Piotr Szyhalski’s Visual Journal of the Plague Year (in COVID-19: Labor Camp Report, Frank, 2021) explores Szyhalski’s critique of the politics and social upheavals of the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, in the form of 225 drawings he made and uploaded daily to social media.

Building the Legacy of Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson (Southwest Contemporary, August 2019) outlines the ambitious agenda of Lisa LeFeuvre, newly-appointed Executive DIrector of the Holt / Smithson Foundation, Santa Fe, and former Head of Sculpture Studies at the Henry Moore Foundation, UK.

Cultural Crossings (Crafts, July 2019) reveals the huge influence of Golden Bridge Pottery on contemporary Indian ceramics. I interviewed GBP’s American founders, Ray Meeker and Deborah Smith, at their home in Pondicherry, India, and spoke to GBP alumni Rakhee Kane, Adil Writer, Supriya Menon Meneghetti and Ange Peter in nearby Auroville, in March 2019.

My review of the Whitney Biennial 2019 appeared in Southwestern Contemporary, July 2019, accompanied by my own photos.

I gave the Closing Remarks at After the Bauhaus, Before the Internet: A History of Graphic Design Pedagogy, Yale University’s 2019 conference on graphic design education in the 20th Century organized by Geoff Kaplan and hosted by the Department of Art History.