Gracias // Acknowledgements

Diane Nelson writes about her indebtedness to collaborators as a form of kinship, a sharing of blood. And even the sharing of blood, for Nelson, doesn't seem a strong enough metaphor for her experience of learning together: "It somehow doesn't seem strong enough to say that this document is only meaningful in its relation to the interactions, flows, transfusions, spills, and donations of many, many other people to whom I am deeply indebted." Indeed, I am with her. This exhibition and text owe many debts to conversations and friendships, to disagreements and shared pain, to inflicted pain, to trust and failure. I have shared my most difficult and enriching experiences with a community of artists who, for some reason, continue to allow me to show up at their tables. There seems nothing I can do to repay that kindness, except to say that all I have and all I do and all I know is because of this sharing. Among my interlocutors, I am especially indebted to:

Esvin Alarcón Lam

Gustavo Artigas

Hellen Ascoli

Sofia Bastidas Vivar

Jennifer Beck

Stefan Benchoam

Lauren Berlant

Edgar Calel

Andy Campbell

Manuel Chavajay

Beto Collía

Oscar Rene Cornejo

Lily Cox-Richard

Arden Decker

Dario Escobar

Hannah Feldman

Fernando Feliu-Moggi

Margarita Figueroa

Jorge Galván

Nell Gottlieb

Mary Leclere

Jorge de León

Denise Liebl

Margaret Meehan

Reyes Josué Morales

Yue Nakayama

Vanessa Nasta

Betty Pepetone

Greg Pepetone

John Pluecker

Angel Poyon

Fernando Poyon

Pablo José Ramírez

Julio Serrano Echeverría

Noah Simblist

Edi Shreeve

Noah Simblist

James Sullivan

Mario Santizo

Felipe Steinberg

Sergio Valencia

Inés Verdugo

Chelsea Weathers

Karl Williamson

Paulina Zamora

This catalog is made possible in part by the Creative Capital | Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant and The Pollock Gallery at Southern Methodist University.