Charissa N. Terranova - CV

Catalog, Exhibition, and Magazine Publications

“Landscape through the Automotive Lens: The Work of Ed Ruscha,” artltd., May 2011.

“On Wheels at brand 10 in Fort Worth: A Regionalism of the Road, Car, and Place in
Flux,” glasstire.com, April 30, 2011

Interview with Martin Creed, Fluent Collaborative, www.fluentcollab.org, Issue #167, April
15, 2011

Interview with Ed Ruscha, Fluent Collaborative, www.fluentcollab.org, Issue #164, March
4, 2011

"Orange Alert: Fashion and Frivolity in the Age of Terror,” James Gilbert: Warnings & Instructions, Dallas Contemporary, February 6-April 18, 2010.

Thinking Anew the Imitation of Imitating: Armando Romero’s Circus,” Catalogue essay for Armando Romero: Circus, Tasende Gallery Los Angeles; McKinney Avenue Contemporary Dallas, New York, May-June, 2009.

“Playing at Bare Life; Dadara, the State, and Homo Sacer,” 14+1: 14 Minutes of Fame and 1 to Keep, www.centraltrak.org, January, 2009.

“Celebrity Dread: Angst, Fame and the End of Privacy in the Work of James Gilbert,” Catalogue essay for The Privacy of Underpants: Work by James Gilbert, PYO Gallery, Seoul, South Korea, October-November 2008.

“The Ludic Space of Faith Gay and Ruben Nieto’s Work at Centraltrak,” brochure essay for Ludic Space, Centraltrak: The UT Dallas Artists Residency, September-November 2008.

“Capturing Language through the Veil: On the Work of Simeen Ishaque in Words Without Voices: Forms Without Bodies,” catalog essay for exhibition at McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, Texas, September-October, 2008.

“Geomorph: Rethinking Landscape,” brochure essay for Geomorph, Centraltrak: The UT Dallas Artists Residency, August-September 2008.

“The Big Bad Realism of Katie Pell,” brochure essay for exhibition at Women and Their Work, Austin, Texas, August 2008.

“Remembering Our Future Selves through the Screen,” brochure essay for Ech_o, Centraltrak: The UT Dallas Artists Residency, June-July 2008.

“False Space and Time of the Apartment: Art-becoming-Architecture, Architecture-becoming-Art,” brochure essay for False Space and Time of the Apartment at Centraltrak: The UT Dallas Artists Residency, April-May 2008.

“From Metonymy to Metaphor, Between Clay and Collecting: The Work of Ken Shores,” catalog essay for Generations: Ken Shores at the Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland, Oregon, April 10-July 23, 2008.

“Collectivity in a World of Collectors,” Co-written with Noah Simblist, catalog essay for Collecting and Collectivity at Conduit Gallery, Dallas, Texas, February, 2008.

“You’ve Come a Long Way Baby: A Discussion about Pretty Baby with Curator Andrea Karnes,” Artlies, Number 56 (Summer 2007).

“TV Reality – Reality TV: Feedback in the Work of Karina Nimmerfall,” catalog essay for Power Play, a mixed-media video installation at the Landesgalerie am Oberösterreichischen Landesmuseum, Linz, Austria, April 19-June 10, 2007.

“What Time Is It? The Temporality of Narrative in Contemporary Video Art,” catalog essay for Reality Bytes at the Dallas Contemporary, February 2007.

“Object: Objectivity Objecthood Objectification,” catalog essay for Object: Objectivity, Objecthood, Objectification, University of Texas at Dallas, January 12-February 16, 2007.

“Filling Voids with Flatness: Tommy Fitzpatrick’s Bridge over Ambiguous Waters,” catalog essay for Bridge, Michael Schultz Gallery, Berlin, October, 2006.

“Collage-Becoming-Chaos: On the Processes of Hana Hillerova,” Artlies, Number 51 (Summer 2006) 48-51.

“Between Collage and Chaos,” catalog essay for Superspace: Work by Hana Hillerova at Women & Their Work, Austin, Texas, May 2006.

“Rational Exuberance: The Vigor and Range of Flatness in the Work of Scott Barber,” catalog essay for Scott Barber Works on Paper, Barry Whistler Gallery, January 2006.

“Tarrying Between the Movement-Image and Time-Image,” catalog essay for the Dallas Center for Contemporary Art, Moving Pics, November 2005.

“Painting in the Age of the Infobot,” catalog essay for The Dallas Center for 
Contemporary Art, Legends Award: John Pomara, September 2005.

"The Rebirth of Spanish Art: Cosmopolitan Painting from Fortuny to Early Picasso," Albuquerque Museum of Art; Catalog entries for six early paintings by Picasso: Portrait of Aunt Pepa (1896); The Streets of Montmartre (1900); Woman with an Elaborate Coiffure (The Plumed Hat) (1901); Peonies (1901); Roofs of Barcelona in the Moonlight (1903); Nude Combing Her Hair (1906), August 2005.

“Bent Optimism: Utopian Function in the Work of Stephen Lapthisophon,” catalog essay for Strategy: Stephen Lapthisophon, Conduit Gallery, April 2005.

“Urbanisms of Risk: Economies of Technology, War and World in Art, Architecture and the City,” catalog essay for Urbanisms of Risk: Economies of Technology, War and World in Art, Architecture and the City, University of Texas at Dallas, January 10-February 12, 2005. 

“The Solace of Fetish Form and Repetition,” catalog essay for OBJECTification, The Gallery at the University of Texas, Arlington, October 11-November 16, 2004.

“Alchemist of Imagination On the Art and Legacy of Lee Baxter Davis,” Artlies, Number 43 (Summer 2004) 41-46.

“Cultural Readymade: The Artist Residency Program at South Side on Lamar in Dallas,” Artlies, Number 42 (Spring 2004) 13-17. 

“Performing the Frame: Daniel Buren, Degree Zero Painting and a Politics of Beauty,” Stretcher, http://www.stretcher.org.

“Slang Architecture: On the Matter of Speaking Matter and Life from Modern Ruins, or, the Parisian Banlieue,” Dudley Literary Review, No. 7 (2001) 50-57.

"Infobotix: A Heuristics of Nature for the New Millennium," Dudley Literary Review, No. 6 (2000) 65-72.

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