PUBLICATIONS
Books
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Refined Material: Petroculture and Modernity in Venezuela. Oakland: University of California Press, 2023.
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Articles & Chapters
“El Hotel Humboldt: Construyendo la vista.” Trópico Absoluto: Revista de crítica, pensamiento e ideas. February 2024.
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“All That Glitters: Rolando Peña Gilds the Barrel.” El Dorado: A Reader, edited by Aimé Iglesias Lukin, Tie Jojima, Edward J. Sullivan, and Karen Marta, 82–97. New York: Americas Society and D.A.P., 2024.
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“La petro-cultura como motor de la modernidad venezolana.” Trópico Absoluto: Revista de crítica, pensamiento e ideas. December 2023.
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"Gego: Variations on Design." In Gego: Measuring Infinity, edited by Geaninne Gutiérrez-Guimarães and Pablo León de la Barra, 156–65. New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 2023. Exhibition catalogue.
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"Arcadian Dreams." Manual: A Journal About Art and Its Making 15: Green (Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Spring–Summer 2021): 68–83.
"Gego: Variaçoes sobre o design." In Gego: A linha emancipada, edited by Adriano Pedrosa and translated by Célia Euvaldo, 102–17. São Paulo: Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, 2020. Exhibition catalogue.
"The Painting Devoured: El Techo de la Ballena and the Destruction of Venezuelan Informalism." In New Geographies of Abstract Art in Postwar Latin America, edited by Mariola V. Alvarez and Ana M. Franco, 41–65. London: Routledge, 2018.
"La Revelación de Petróleo crudo de Rolando Peña: Una nueva imagen de Venezuela / The Revelation of Rolando Peña's Crude Oil: A New Image for Venezuela." Caiana: Revista de historia del arte y cultura visual del Centro Argentino de Investigadores de Arte 11 (Spring 2018): 224–37.
"Refining Amuay: Creole Petroleum and Judibana, 1946–1955.) Architectural Theory Review 21, no. 3 (2017), 302–29.
"Panorama petrolero: El regreso de Cruz-Diez a El Farol." Revistas de arte latinoamericano. Fundación Espigas, Buenos Aires. 2017.
"Un arte de los cuerpos / An Art of Bodies." In Poner el cuerpo. Buenos Aires: Hertlizka + Faria, 2016. Exhibition brochure. Republished in Artishock: Revista de arte contemporáneo, June 22, 2016. Co-author with Aimé Iglesias Lukin.
"Oil in the Abstract: Designing Venezuelan Modernity in El Farol." Hemisphere: Visual Cultures of the Americas 8 (2015): 56–79.
"Defining the Aesthetic(s) of Negation in El Techo de la Ballena." Caiana: Revista de historia del arte y cultura visual del Centro Argentino de Investigadores de Arte 4 (Spring 2014): 1–8.
"Dislocations and Decapitations: On the Venezuelan Responses to 'Revolución.'" post: Notes on Modern And Contemporary Art Around the Globe. The Museum of Modern Art. February 2014.
"Art for Partisan Life: Nonobjectivity Translated to Buenos Aires, 1944–1948." ICAA Documents Project Working Papers 3 (November 2013): 3–13.
"Jesús Soto's Materializations and Dematerializations." In Soto Unearthed: A 1968 Film and Selected Early Works, 15–20. BOSI Contemporary 2012. Exhibition catalogue.
Edited Journals
Vistas: Critical Approaches to Modern and Contemporary Latin American Art 2: Realisms: Politics, Art, and Visuality in the Americas (New York: Institute for Studies on Latin American Art [ISLAA], 2020).
Reviews
“Review: Contesting Modernity: Informalism in Venezuela, 1955–1975, edited by Mari Carmen Ramírez and Tahía Rivero; and El Techo de la Ballena: Retro-Modernity in Venezuela, by María C. Gaztambide." Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture 4, no. 2 (April 2022): 114–17. https://doi.org/10.1525/lavc.2022.4.2.114
"Art History in the Wilderness." Shift: Graduate Journal of Visual and Material Culture 6 (Fall 2016).
"Art, and a Museum, in Flux." ifacontemporary. October 2015.
"Design for the Future in Latin America, Both Past and Present." ifacontemporary. March 2015.
"In the Shadow of Utopia: Beyond the Supersquare at Bronx Museum of the Arts." ifacontemporary. September 2014.
"Caribbean: Art at the Crossroads of the World at El Museo del Barrio, The Studio Museum in Harlem, and Queens Museum of Art." Contemporary Art Consortium @ the IFA. November 2012.