JESS PERLITZ

Exhibition Catalogues & Publications 

• Rock Commission, Ford Family Visual Arts Artist Publication, 2020 (writing by Eileen Myles)

• People Making People Sounds - Solo exhibition at Holding Contemporary, 2019 (writing by Eileen Myles)

• Forever Washing - Solo exhibition at the Hoffman Gallery, Portland, OR, 2018 (writing by Stuart Krimko)

• “Widening Circles – portraits from the Joan Mitchell Foundation Artist Community at 25 Years” Joan Mitchell Foundation, 2018

Articles, Reviews & Interviews

• “Jess Perlitz’s Tragicomic Practice”, an essay by Bean Gilsdorf for Oregon’s Visual Arts Ecology Project, 2021

• Art Forum exhibition review by Stephanie Snyder, 2019

• Art as Tool, Riddle, Problem, Absurdity, Desire, an interview with Laurel McLaughlin in Title Magazine, 2019

• “Costumes, reverence and forms’: And the greatest of these is reverence”, by Laurel Pavic, Oregon Artswatch, May 9 2017

• “I Can Tell You by YR Noseholes” by Philip Scher, for the exhibition at Pacific Sky Gallery, 2016

Artist’s Writings

• Our Heads Unmade and Remade (Word & Image for Drain Journal, Fall 2023)

• Rock Moving Rocks (Rock Moving Rocks is an offset-printed book about a project where the artist becomes a rock. The text is an exploration of sculpture and how we make meaning.) 

• Artifact of Reclamation (An essay written for artist Nichola Kinch’s exhibition publication, at Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Philadelphia, PA, 2021.)