Focused on film, art, and visual culture, my writing includes essays, exhibition interpretation, program notes, and press releases. I’m known for making complex ideas clear, accessible, and engaging. Linked below are just a few examples of my writing; for more clips, please contact me.

Periodicals and Online Content

• Film program notes, BAMPFA, 1998–
  • UCLA Festival of Preservation
  • Melodrama Master John M. Stahl
  • The Hitchcock 9
  • Under the Skin: The Films of Claire Denis
  • Strange Tales of the Whistler
  • Tight Spot: Phil Karlson in the Fifties
  • Joan Blondell: The Fizz on the Soda
  • American Nonsense: Frank Tashlin
  • No Wave: The Cinema of Jean Eustache
  • Ball of Fire: Barbara Stanwyck Centennial
• Program notes, San Francisco International Film Festival, 2000–2017
  • By the Time It Gets Dark
  • Under the Sun
  • Notes on Blindness
  • Helsinki, Forever
  • Wild Grass
• Member magazine articles and website copy, SFMOMA, 2011–15
  • Doug Hall: The Terrible Uncertainty of the Thing Described
  • Christian Marclay: The Clock
  • Jasper Johns and Jay DeFeo: Icons of an American Moment
  • Human Nature: Naoya Hatakeyama and Japanese Photography at SFMOMA
• Blog posts for Open Space, SFMOMA, 2011–12
  • It’s Hideous and It’s Eloquent
  • Sitting with Alice Toklas

Exhibition and Collection Catalogues

• Texts for San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 360°, SFMOMA, 2016
  • Robert Bechtle’s Watsonville Olympia
  • Saul Bass’s Anatomy of a Murder poster
• Texts for @Large: Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz, Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy, 2014
  • The New Industries Building
  • The Hospital
  • Trace
  • Blossom
• Texts for Measure of Time, BAMPFA, 2007
  • Marcel Duchamp’s Boîte
  • Joseph Cornell’s Sand Fountain

Exhibition Interpretation

• Web content, signage, brochure, and video scripts for @Large: Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz, FOR-SITE Foundation, 2014
  • @Large online
• Web content, wall texts, and brochure for International Orange, FOR-SITE Foundation, 2012
  • International Orange online
  • International Orange brochure

Annual Reports

• Director and board chair introductions and year-in-review narratives, SFMOMA, 2011–12
  • SFMOMA Year in Review 2012
  • Story of a Year: SFMOMA Annual Report 2011

Press Releases

• Exhibition releases, SFMOMA, 2011–12
  • Field Conditions
  • Naoya Hatakeyama: Natural Stories
  • Photography in Mexico