Pretty Messy, 10 page spread featured in the July/August 2008 issue of Surface Magazine

by Gianluna Fontanna

note: I served as a Contributing Artist for this issue/project, also hand picking the clothing designs used within the shoot.

 

Catalog essay, The Object in the Limit: Thoughts on Michael Jones McKean's Recent Work
By Stacy Switzer, Director, Grand Arts, Kansas City,  February 2008

 

In Conversation: Matthew Edgeworth and Michael Jones McKean 
Interview with archeologist Matthew Edgeworth, PhD Research Associate in the School of Archaeology at the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom, January 2008

 

ArtsHouston review of The Astronomer, The Builder, and the Volunteers at Inman Gallery, Houston, Texas
By Sean Carroll, January 2008


Houston Chronicle review of The Astronomer, the Builder, the Volunteers at Inman Gallery, Houston, Texas 
By Douglas Britt, December 26, 2007  


artfagcity.com brief discussing work from the 2007 NADA Art Fair  in Miami
By Paddy Johnson, December 2007

 

New York Times review of The Discipline of Astronomy and Wind at SUNDAY
By Karen Rosenberg, September 28, 2007


jameswagner.com review of The Discipline of Astronomy and Wind at SUNDAY 
By James Wagner, September 11, 2007


Art Papers feature, Meta Narratives and Marginalia: Michael Jones McKean’s Quixotic Compilation
By Michelle White, Assistant Curator, Menil Collection, July/August 2007 

 

GlassTire review for The Possibility of Men and the River Shallows, 
By Bill Davenport, February 2007 


Public Radio KUHF: The Front Row interview with Catherine Lu, (audio)
This interview took place on the occasion of The Possibility of Men and the River Shallows on
January 10, 2007.  The interview is approximately 11 minutes long.

 

Interview with Christopher Cook, Curator, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Dissolving Logic in H20

Winter 2007

Catalog essay, An Epic Love Song,
By Diane Barber, Co-Director of DiverseWorks Artspace, January 2007


Houston Press review of The Possibility of Men and the River Shallows,
By Kelly Klaasmeyer, February 2007

 

Exhibition essay for Riverboat Lovesongs for the Ghost Whale Regatta,
By Alison de Lima Greene, Curator of Modern Art, Museum Fine Arts, Houston, September 2006


Ocean Navigator brief discussing The Great Circuit project
September 2006

 

Kansas City Star review for Riverboat Lovesongs for the Ghost Whale Regatta, 
by Alice Thorson, September 2006 


Pitch review for Riverboat Lovesongs for the Ghost Whale Regatta, 
by Ray T. Barker, September 2006