Scholarly Writing
The following essays appear in the 2022 publication Blythe Bohnen: Being There and Not Being There.
Silke von Berswordt-Wallrabe
All Order is Reversible: Process and Reflection in Blythe Bohnen’s Brushstroke Works
Silke von Berswordt-Wallrabe, PhD, is chairwoman of the Situation Kunst Foundation at Ruhr-
University Bochum, Germany, and author and editor of publications such as Richard Serra: Druckgrafik—Prints—Estampes: A Catalogue Raisonné (1999; second edition 2008), Lee Ufan: Encounters with the Other (2007), Qiu Shihua (2012), Abbas Kiarostami: Images, Still and Moving (2012), Compliant Art: Art and Politics in the National Socialist Era (2016), Ingeborg Luescher: Traces of Being (2021).
Suzanne Hudson
Suzanne Hudson teaches at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. An art historian and critic, she is a regular contributor to Artforum and has written numerous essays for international exhibition catalogs and artist monographs.
Her books include Robert Ryman: Used Paint
(MIT, 2009), Agnes Martin: Night Sea (Afterall/MIT, 2017), and Contemporary Painting (Thames & Hudson, 2021).
Anna Lovatt
Merely Human: Blythe Bohnen’s Graphic Gestures
Anna Lovatt is associate professor of art history at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. She is the author of Drawing Degree Zero: The Line from Minimal to Conceptual Art (Penn State University Press, 2019) and the editor of Michelle Stuart: Drawn from Nature (Hatje Cantz, 2013). In spring 2022, she was the inaugural senior research fellow at the Menil Drawing Institute in Houston.
Karen Irvine
Chasing Time: Blythe Bohnen’s Performative Photographs
Karen Irvine is chief curator and deputy director of the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago. She has organized over fifty exhibitions of contemporary photography at the MoCP and other venues, including the Hyde Park Art Center; Rockford Art Museum; Lishui International Photography Festival, China; Daegu Photography Biennale, South Korea; and the New York Photo Festival. Irvine has contributed texts to many publications, including FOAM, Art on Paper, and Contemporary magazines and monographs including Paula McCartney: Non-flights of Fancy (Princeton Architectural Press), Barbara Probst: Exposures (Steidl), Redheaded Peckerwood by Christian Patterson (MACK), and Stefan Heyne Speak to Me (Hatje Cantz), amongst others. She has a BA in French and international relations from Tufts University (Medford, Massachusetts), an MFA in photography from FAMU (Prague, Czech Republic), and an MA in art history from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
David Mather
David Mather is a historian of early twentieth-
century and interwar European art. His book
titled Futurist Conditions: Imagining Time in Italian Futurism was published by Bloomsbury in 2020. He also coedited a volume on the visual arts and the cognitive and brain sciences, titled Experience: Culture, Cognition, and the Common Sense, published by MIT Press in 2016. Mather has also published texts on Italian futurists F. T. Marinetti, Umberto Boccioni, Giacomo Balla, Gino Severini, and Carlo Carrà. He lives and works in Los Angeles.