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Essays


2012

Jack Goldstein, Orange County Museum of Art ,” (review) Artforum, Vol. 15 No. 4, December: 269

Time Travel: New Work by Liz Glynn,” Liz Glynn: No Second Troy, exhibition catalogue, Pitzer Art Galleries, Claremont, CA: 5-9


2011

“Rhapsody in Pink: Stephen Prina Paints” Stephen Prina As He Remembered It exhibition catalogue, Secession, Vienna: 83-87

“Institutional Whitewash” East of Borneo, February 11, 2011

exhibition text for The Experimental Impulse, REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA, Novermber 18, 2011 - January 5, 2012.


2010

The Journey West” East of Borneo, October, 10, 2010

The Studio Reader,  Mary Jane Jacob and Michelle Grabner, ed.University of Chicago Press, Chicago IL: 121-123


2009

“Enchantment and Its Discontents” Gerard Hemsworth: Hidden Agenda exhibition catalogue, Kunsthalle Bern and The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum: 6-9.


2008

“An Artist’s Education” The Core Program, catalogue, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: 79-97.

“Gary Hume: Modern Painting” Gary Hume: Door Paintings exhibition catalogue, Modern Art Oxford: 5-13.


2007

“Art Schools: A Group Crit" Art in America May: 99-113.

"Fractional Gift,” Michael Hurson obituary, Artforum April: 67.

“Listening is Looking: Singing is Making” Aileen Campbell: Still Residency Program, Scotland, exhibition brochure.

“Marina Kappos: Spaces Between” exhibition catalogue, Tokyo Wonder Site.

“Some Thoughts on the Practice of Painting” Counterparts: Contemporary Painters and Their Influences exhibition catalogue, Contemporary Art Center of Virginia.


2006

"Artists at Work: Monique Prieto" Afterall.org October 20.

"Best of 2006" Artforum December: 290-291.

“Cady Noland” Where Are We Going? Selections from the Francois Pinault Collection exhibition catalogue, Palazzo Grassi: 232-233.

"A Change of Mind" Paint: A Psychedelic Primer exhibition catalogue, Vancouver Art Gallery: 11-13.

"Outside In; Thomas Lawson on the Art of Lucy McKenzie" Artforum November: 254-255.

"Prêt a Prouve" Artforum January: 69.

“Review of Los Angeles 1955-1985: The Birth of an Artistic Capital” Artforum September: 366-367.


2005

“Considering the Effect of Rain: on Representation and the Weather” The New Moderns The Showroom Annual  2004/05, London: 29-34.

“Not a Condition but a Process” Afterall #11: 27-34.

“Thomas Lawson on Gretchen Bender” Artforum April: 33.

“Waiting, Thinking, Drinking: A Conversation about Patrick Caulfield’s Interiors,” with Katherine Lewis. Afterall #12: 18-27.


2004

“Desperate Dreams” Afterall #9: 3-8.

“On ‘Infotainment’” Artforum October: 16, 93-94, 281.


2003

"The Unbearable Lightness of Painting" Laura Owens exhibition catalogue, MoCA, Los Angeles: 12-27.


2002

“Looking for Something to Read” Afterall #6: 6-13.


2001

Jack Goldstein obituary, X-tra vol. 5 #4.


2000

"Richard Wright and Thomas Lawson in conversation" Richard Wright exhibition catalogue: Milton Keyes Gallery, Edinburgh College of Art, Foksal Gallery Foundation, BQ Cologne.Newcastle upon Tyne.

"Shimmer: Notes on some recent abstract painting in Los Angeles" Shimmer exhibition catalogue, Barnsdall Art Park, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery.


1999

“Flying into the Future” Curious, artists' research within expert culture exhibition catalogue, Visual Arts Projects, Glasgow: 28-31.


1998

“El Principe Rana” Chema Cobo exhibition catalogue, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo, Sevilla.

“Empire,” with Russell Ferguson. A flyer to accompany a public work by Douglas Gordon, Brunswick St, Glasgow, reprinted by Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven.

“You Crack Me Up” Georgina Starr's Tuberama exhibition catalogue, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham.

                      

1997

Hot Coffee, exhibition catalogue, Artists Space, N.Y.


1996

"Attempting Community" Cultural Economies: Histories from the Alternative Arts Movement, NYC exhibition catalogue, The Drawing Center, New York: 11-15.

“I was a Teenage Vampire” 10 Years of Transmission Transmission Gallery, Glasgow.


1995

"Allan McCollum Interviewed by Thomas Lawson" Allan McCollum A.R.T Press, LA: 1-25.

“Unrelenting Jet Lag and Iron-Hard Jets" The British Art Show 4 exhibition catalogue, South Bank Centre, London: 88-94.


1993

"Hello, It's Me: Douglas Gordon interviewed by Thomas Lawson" freize, #9, March-April: 14-17.


1992

“Frontieres Perdues” Art et Espaces Publics Maison du Rhone, Givors: 78-80.

“Making Art at CalArts" Akademie Zwischen Kunst Und Lehre symposium catalogue, Akademie Der Bildenden Kunste Wien: 29-31, 34-35, 60.

“This Begins Here” Guilt  by Association exhibition catalogue, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin.


1991

“Angelic Visions” El Sueno Imperativo Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid: 148-150.

"Candies and Other Comforts: An Erotics of Care" Claes Oldenburg: Multiples in Retrospect 1964-1990 Rizzoli Publications, New York:11-17.


1990

“Memory Lingers Here” A New Necessity, First Tyne International Tyne and Wear Museum Services, Newcastle on Tyne: 29.

“No Bull” Real Life Magazine #20: 2.

“Time Capsule Explodes" Familie Beck Richard Baim exhibition, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT.


1989

A contribution to “A Collective Portrait of Andy Warhol” Andy Warhol: A Retrospective MoMA, New York.

“Theatre of the Mind: John Baldessari”  Ni Por Esas Centro Nacional Exposicions de la Reina Sofia, and IVAM, Valencia (reprinted in Parkett #29: 38-42, 43-47): 61-67.


1988

“Nostalgia as Resistance” Modern Dreams PS1 and MIT Press, New York and Boston.

“Time Bandits/Space Vampires” Artforum January: 88-94.


1987

“Avant-Garde in the 80s at LACMA” LA Weekly 15 May: 30, 33.

"Bunk: Eduardo Paolozzi and The Legacy of the Independent Group" This is Tomorrow, Today, The Clocktower/PS1, NY: 19-29.

“The Spiritual in Art at LACMA” LA Weekly 1 January.

“The Story of Henk Guth” Knight Gallery, Charlotte, NC.


1986

“The Future is Certain” Individuals: A Selected History of Contemporary Art 1945-1986 MoCA, Los Angeles.

“Towards Another Laocoon, or, The Snake Pit” Artforum March: 99-106.


1985

“Horrorshow” The New Art Examiner July: 24-26.

“Nature Morte” Infotainment Reichard/Livet, NY: 23-52.


1984

“A Generation in Vitro” Artforum September: 99.

“Hilton Kramer: An Appreciation” Artforum November: 90,-91.

“Interference on the Line” Contemporary Perspectives 84 Center Gallery at Bucknell University.

Livin' in the USA exhibition catalogue, Damon Brandt Gallery, New York.

“Where’s the Beef?” ZG Spring, No. 10: 14.


1983

“An Interview with Komar & Melamid” Real Life Magazine #11/12: 19-21.


1982

“Conflicting Panaceas” Cover #6: 34-35.

Critical Perspectives exhibition catalogue P.S.1.

“The Dark Side of the Bright Light” Artforum November: 62-66.

A Fatal Attraction exhibition catalogue, The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago: 3-4.


1981

“Last Exit: Painting” Artforum, October: 40-47.

“The Olympic Thirteen” Art at the Olympics exhibition catalogue CMDA Library, Lake Placed: 31-35.

“Switching Channels” Flash Art March/April: 20-22.

“Too Good to be True” Real Life Magazine #7: 3-4.

“We Must Embrace Or Joys and Sorrows” ZG magazine #3 Autumn.


1980

“Going Places” Real Life Magazine # 3: 12-13, 19.

“An Interview with Fashion Moda” Real Life Magazine #3: 7-9.

“Long Distance Information” Real Life Magazine #4; 3-5.

“Silently, By Means of a Flashing Light” October #15: 49-60.

“Spies and Watchmen” Cover #3: 16-17.


1979

“Every Picture Tells a Story, Don't It”  Real Life Magazine #2: 11-12.

Four Artists exhibition catalogue, Artists Space, New York.

“Painting in New York: An Illustrated Guide” Flash Art October.

“The Uses of Representation: Making Some Distinctions" Flash Art March: 37-39.


1978-86

Numerous reviews of current exhibitions in Flash ArtArt in America, Artforum and other, smaller, publications.