Essay by Kate Zambreno, 2022
Exhibition Catalogue
On the occasion of the gallery's exhibition of work by James Rosenquist, The Kasmin Review asked Kate Zambreno to meditate on the elegiac possibilities in the artist’s painting Time Dust–Black Hole. What follows is a digressive meditation on his work that encompasses the city and its layered histories, as well as thinking through time and space.
Kate Zambreno is the author of 8 books, most recently the novel Drifts (Riverhead) and a study of Hervé Guibert, To Write As If Already Dead (Columbia UP). She is a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow in Nonfiction. She teaches in the graduate writing program at Columbia University and is the Strachan Donnelley Chair in Environmental Writing at Sarah Lawrence College. She is at work on The Light Room, a book-length meditation on art and care, forthcoming from Riverhead.
