Writings on 21st-century art and artists

“Where There’s Smoke: Enduring Inhabitations in Alex Da Corte’s Rubber Pencil Devil,” in Mia Matthias, ed., Alex Da Corte (Potomac, MD: Glenstone Museum, 2025), 277–83.

“Peter Tomka: Souvenir Views,” and “A fixed point for the world to orbit around: Beaux Mendes in conversation with David J. Getsy,” in Essence Harden and Paulina Pobocha, eds., Made in L.A. 2025, exh. cat. (Hammer Museum UCLA, 2025), 263–72 and 167–76.

“Paradoxes of Queer Visibility: A Conversation between David J. Getsy and Daniel Berndt,” in Daniel Berndt, Susanne Huber, and Christian Liclair, eds., Ambivalent Work*s: Queer Perspectives and Art History (Berlin: Diaphanes, 2024), 187–209.

“The Hole is a Center: Angelo Madsen Minax in Conversation with David J. Getsy,” Pioneer Works Broadcast (11 April 2024).

“Partiality and Passion: Andrew Atchison’s Quotational Abstraction,” broadside accompanying the exhibition Statements: Andrew Atchison (Melbourne: LON Gallery, 2023)

“Thresholds: Ever Baldwin’s Paintings,” in Devon Zimmerman, ed., Ever Baldwin: Down the Line, exh. cat (Ogunquit, Maine: Ogunquit Museum of Art, 2023), 12-21.

“Queer Possibilities: Lesbian Feminist Abstract Painting in the 1970s and After,” in Katy Siegel and Mark Godfrey, eds., Making Their Mark: Art by Women in the Shah Garg Collection (New York: Gregory R. Miller & Co, 2023), 70-79.

(co-authored with Che Gossett) “A Syllabus on Transgender and Nonbinary Methods for Art and Art History,” Art Journal 80.4 (Winter 2021): 100–115. Winner of the College Art Association’s Award for Distinction for best article published in Art Journal in 2021.

“Ceaseless,” a response to a forum of twelve scholars and critics responding to my text on “Refusing Ambiguity” (published in 2019 as one of my “Ten Queer Theses on Abstraction”), On_Culture: The Open Journal for the Study of Culture 12 (2021).

“Shim (The Number of Inches Between Them), 2020,” in Gordon Hall with Mira Dayal, Circling the Square: Words from End of Day, exh. cat. (New York: Hesse Flatow, 2020), n.p.

“Multiple Exposures: Sean Fader’s #wishingpelt and Humor in Social Media Performance,” ASAP/Journal 5.3 (September 2020): 515-20.

“Viewfinder: Sean Fader and Queer Visibility in the Age of the Digital Photograph,” in Sean Fader: Thirst/Trap, exh. cat. (New York: Denny Dimin Gallery, 2020), 7-23.

"Ten Queer Theses on Abstraction," in Jared Ledesma, ed., Queer Abstraction (Des Moines: Des Moines Art Center, 2019), 65-75.

"Queer Figurations in the Sculpture of Elmgreen & Dragset," in Leigh Arnold, ed., Elmgreen & Dragset: Sculpture (Dallas: Nasher Sculpture Center, 2019), 154-94. 

“Intimacy, Unknowing, and Discovery: David Getsy in Conversation with Christina Quarles,” in Andrew Bonacina, ed., Christina Quarles, exh. cat. (Wakefield: Hepworth Wakefield, 2019), 31-40.

“Slow Bonds and the Intimacy of Objects: A Conversation between Gordon Hall and David J. Getsy” in Gordon Hall, 'The Number of Inches Between Them,' exh. cat, MIT List Visual Arts Center (Gordon Hall, 2019), 67-89. [Also republished in Gordon Hall, 'OVER-BELIEFS: Collected Writing, 2011–2018' (Portland, Oregon: Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, 2019), 44-49]

"Here You Come Again: Repetition and Fidelity in Erik Hanson's Bluto Paintings, A Conversation between Ramzi Fawaz and David Getsy," in Erik Hanson: Two Years of Bluto, exh. cat. (New York: Marlborough Gallery, 2019)

"Tearing Off the Labels: David J. Getsy and Yan Xing in Conversation," in Michelle Grabner, ed., An American City, Eleven Cultural Exercises: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art, exh. cat, vol. 2 of 2 (Cleveland: FRONT/Cleveland Museum of Art, 2018), 21-24.

"A Sight to Withhold: David J. Getsy on Cassils," Artforum (February 2018): 57-60. 

"Abstract Bodies and Otherwise: A Conversation with Amelia Jones and David Getsy on Gender and Sexuality in the Writing of Art History," CAAreviews (posted 16 February 2018). 

"Slava Mogutin, Infiltrator," in Slava Mogutin, Bros & Brosephines (Brooklyn: powerHouse Books, 2017), 88-95.

"Jared Buckhiester: Love Me Tender," in ASAP/J: The Open-Access Platform of ASAP/Journal. Posted 28 September 2017.

“Oltre il muro. Corpo, gender, sessualità e arte. Parla David J. Getsy di Camilla Boemio,” Exibart.com (29 March 2017). [English translation available as PDF: “Off the Wall, Beyond the Wall: Body, Gender, Sexuality, and Art. David J. Getsy in conversation with Camilla Boemio”]

"Seeing Commitments: Jonah Groeneboer's Ethics of Discernment," in Temporary Art Review(8 March 2016). [online]

"Generativity: On Michelle Grabner's Recent Sculpture," in Michelle Grabner: Bronze (New York: James Cohan Gallery, 2016), 4-10.

"Histories for the Future: Visionary Identification in the Work of Carlos Motta," in Carlos Motta: Deviations, exh. cat. (New York: P.P.O.W. Gallery, April 2016).

"Behind and Through: Promiscuous Abstractions in Andrew Holmquist's Recent Figurative Paintings," in Stage Left: Andrew Holmquist (Chicago: Carrie Secrist Gallery, 2016)

"Appearing Differently: Abstraction's Transgender and Queer Capacities," interview by William Simmons, in C. Erharter, D. Schwärzler, R. Sicar, and H. Scheirl, eds., Pink Labor on Golden Streets: Queer Art Practices (Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2015), 38-55.

"The Image of Becoming: Cassils's Allegories of Transformation," Cassils, exh. cat. (Eindhoven: MU Eindhoven, 2015), 10-22.

“Abstraction and the Unforeclosed” [conclusion to Abstract Bodies, re: Cassils’s Becoming an Image, transgender capacity, and contemporary abstraction]

"Catherine Opie, Portraiture, and the Decoy of the Iconographic," in Confronting the Abject, William & Stephanie Sick Distinguished Professorship Monograph Series, no. 3: Catherine Opie (Chicago: School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2015), 15-37.

"Laying it Down: Heroic Reclining Men and Other Tactical Inversions," in Eugenie Tsai and Rujeko Hockley, eds., Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic, exh. cat. (Brooklyn: Brooklyn Museum of Art, 2015), 94-99.

"William J. O'Brien: Making Faces," in William J. O'Brien: Ceramic Heads (Los Angeles: Wood Kusaka Studios, 2014), n.p.

"Queer Formalisms: Jennifer Doyle and David Getsy in Conversation," Art Journal 72.4 (Winter 2013): 58-71.

"Queer Exercises: Amber Hawk Swanson's Performances of Self-Realization," GLQ 19.4 (Fall 2013): 465-85.

"John Chamberlain's Pliability: The New Monumental Aluminium Works," The Burlington Magazine 153.1304 (November 2011): 738-44.

"Mourning, Yearning, Cruising: Ernesto Pujol's Memorial Gestures," PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art 90 (September 2008): 11-24.