Luminous Matter
Secrist|Beach
December 12, 2025—March 7, 2026
Chicago
Group invitational exhibition featuring a selection of seven photographs from Space Craft.
Kate Joyce & Alan Huck
Untitled (Paris)
40 pages / 9” x 6”
Saddle-stitched booklet in envelope
Published on the occasion of
ICP Photobook Fest, May 2026
Co-Published w/
Visible Storage
Space Craft (—print edition) 2024
40 x 26.5 in
101.6 x 67.31 cm
Framed: 41 x 27.5 x 2 in
104.14 x 69.85 x 5.08 cm
Edition of 3
Signed and dated verso
Photographs by Kate Joyce
Afterword by Lawrence Weschler
Edition of 300
Hardcover
96 pages
7 in x 9.5 in
17.78 cm x 24.13 cm
35 color photographs
Hat & Beard Press, Los Angeles
2022
Metaphysics is the companion monograph for a SITE Santa Fe exhibition featuring Joyce's photographs. Created between 2012 and 2019, during a period when the photographer was regularly commuting by air, this series of photographs highlights the way static images can capture the passage of time, revealing fragments of its movement through light and space.
Multimedia presentation of Metamorphoses (Special Problems Press, 2021), photographs from Chile by Kate Joyce, translation from the Latin by Andrew Berns, and live soundscapes by Justin Ray, aka RMX#13.
Live recording
SITE Santa Fe
March 11, 2022
07:50—34:10 METAMORPHOSES, with Live Soundscape by Justin Ray
Analogies (—book)
Photographs by Kate Joyce & Gordon Cameron
Foreword by Melanie Mitchell, Davis Professor SFI
Edition of 100
Hardcover
550 pages
6 x 9 in.
15.24 x 22.86 cm.
Special Problems Press, Santa Fe
Revised Edition, 2023
Metamorphoses (—book)
Photographs by Kate Joyce (1998-1999 C.E.)
Translated from the Latin by Andrew Berns (2020 C.E.)
With excerpts from The Latin Library’s Metamorphoses by Ovid (c 8 C.E.)
Softcover
7.44 x 9.69 in.
18.9 x 24.61 cm.
250 b&w photographs
672 pages
Special Problems Press, Santa Fe
2021
Edition of 320
Big Ears Knoxville (—book) Hat a& Beard Press 2019
Photographs by Kate Joyce
Preface by Ben Ratliff
Essays by Rachel Grimes and Joe Henry
Music by Sam Amidon, Laurie Anderson, Bryce Dessner, Mats Eilersten, Diamanda Galás, Kronos Quartet, Wu Man, The Necks, Meshell Ndegeocello, Nils Okland, Yuki Numata Resnick, Terry Riley, and Jenny Scheinman.
Designed by Sabrina Che and Ben Schwartz
Hardcover
136 pages
8 x 12 in. / 20.32 x 30.48 cm.
69 color + b&w photographs
Hat & Beard Press, Los Angeles
2019
Edition of 400
To celebrate 10 years of Big Ears, the art and music festival in Knoxville, Tennessee, AC Entertainment, Rock Fish Stew Institute of Literature and Materials, Southern Documentary Fund, and Hat & Beard Press worked closely with artist Kate Joyce—who photographed the festival, the people and surrounds of Knoxville over the last five years—to create a captivating time capsule, both of the last five years of performances at Big Ears and of the lyrical and visual language of Knoxville.
“In the age of increasingly “intelligent” machines, what core aspects of humanness can we hold on to? For me, this book of visual analogies provides an unexpected answer. Kate and Gordon’s imaginative juxtapositions are, above all, a riff on the rich meanings that we humans can so fluidly elicit from photographs, that is, from arrays of colors on a page. Moreover, Kate and Gordon’s visual dialogue illustrates how our human communication itself is based on an analogy—you are like me—and thus we can share these meanings via our common experience. This mutual understanding is beyond even the smartest machines, which remain blocked by what the philosopher Gian Carlo Rota called “the barrier of meaning”. Human understanding is a barrier that can be unlocked only through our shared analogies.”
“The ‘dead’ void may become ‘live’, or ‘magnetic’.”
“I spend a lot of time in airplanes, and this photograph captures something elusive and true about the experience. It has the informality of a snapshot and the formality of portraiture, and it reminds me how accurate a description it is to say that you went somewhere far away in a thermos.”
“Imagination manifests transformation.”
“In these photographs, I feel the energy of true engagement, and see, too, my own experiences reflected back. And I hear them. They are roaring back like silence.”
“Kate Joyce’s typologies are some of my favorite photographs. She took some ninety thousand pictures over roughly a thousand hours in preparing for and realizing the BCS project. But these grouped photographs—the lawn darts, the abandoned concessions, the white smudges made by balls hitting the Blue Monster in left field—are the clearest indication that she, like me, was trying to make sense of a game that is as much about ritual as it is about rules. These accumulations make up a pattern, a vocabulary, through which Joyce can begin to understand the larger language.”
“[Kate’s] black-and-white photographs follow in the footsteps of Diego Velázquez’s An Old Woman Cooking Eggs (see page 10) and the artistic tradition of celebrating ‘low’ subject matter or, as Velázquez put it, ‘common things’.”
“But for all the horrific singularity of his acts, de Kock was a desperate soul, seeking to affirm to himself that he was still part of the human universe.”
SOLO-ARTIST BOOKS Metaphysics (Hat & Beard Press Fall 2022) Metamorphoses (Special Problems Press 2021) Big Ears Knoxville (Hat and Beard Press 2019) MULTIPLE-ARTIST BOOK PUBLICATIONS include Analogies (Special Problems Press 2021) Nature Morte: Contemporary Artists Reinvigorate the Still Life Tradition (Thames & Hudson), Bull City Summer (Daylight Books), Through the Lens: Creating Santa Fe (Museum of New Mexico Press), and Hollow City:The Siege of San Francisco and the Crisis of American Urbanism (Verso). WORKS PUBLISHED BY Harper’s Magazine, BLAU International, The New Yorker, The Paris Review Daily, The Chicagoan, Architect Magazine, Manoa Journal and The New York Times. IN THE COLLECTIONS OF Museum of New Mexico Palace of the Governors, NM; North Carolina Museum of Art, NC; Duke University Perkins Library Special Collections & Rare Book Archive, NC; The Cassilhaus Collection, NC; and the JPMorgan Chase Art Collection, NY. SOLO EXHIBITIONS include SITE Santa Fe; Santa Fe Institute; Rick Wester Fine Art, New York; RTKL Chicago Gallery, Chicago; Experimental Sound Studio/Audible Gallery, Chicago; Duke University, Durham, NC. GROUP EXHIBITIONS include Secrist|Beach, Chicago; Leonardo Museum, Las Vegas, NV; Center for Creative Photography, Tucson; Obscura Gallery, Santa Fe; Guildhall Art Gallery, London; North Carolina Museum of Art, NC; Contemporary Art Museum Raleigh, NC; The Ukrainian Museum of Modern Art, Chicago; Nasher Museum of Art, NC; and Museum of New Mexico Palace of the Governors, NM.
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