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We made it to 2026. Happy (and restful) New Year everyone. (Over the holidays mom sent photos from my “sleep album”—here’s to a quick nap for what ails you.) XK
banana flower in greenhouse at home (1997), banana bunch in light on counter (1998), bonfire and firework flower in the arroyo (1993)
happy to announce “Metaphysics, pln 6” 2022, from my exhibition at @sitesantafe, is now on public view as part of the extensive and tremendous collection at the AARDT Foundation in Birmingham, Alabama. Thank you to Michael Straus, and Lou
On view at Secrist | Beach 

“Untitled # 20 (one wedge, one isosceles)” 2024
From the series “Space Craft”
Archival pigment print 
26.5 x 40 in
67.31 x 101.6 cm
Framed: 27.5 x x 41 x 2 in 
69.85 x 104.14 x 5.08 cm
Edition of 3
16 (!) years ago today @eyerejoyce you brought this amazing child into the world. Happiest of teenage birthdays dear Vivienne
Opening tonight! (12/12)
Luftwerk: The Sun Standing Still & Luminous Matter @secristbeach 
1801 West Hubbard Street, Chicago, 5-8pm 

“Space Craft” finds friends—in light, shadow, optics, and form—in the salon invitational
I’m co-editor on what’s going to be a very special book about educator Doreen Gehry Nelson and her work in public schools—specifically in Los Angeles and photographed extensively by Ray and Charles Eames. With the passing of her old
Dear Chicago, I’d like to invite you to the opening of “Luminous Matter” at Secrist | Beach this Friday December 12, 5-8pm. On view will be a selection of seven photographs from my series “Space Craft”. It’s with w
it was so wonderful seeing the installation of work by friend @utako_shizi @astoria11102 with new pieces, and pieces from her incredible show @5.gallery earlier this year, and to have a first hint of our collaboration in progress (photographs and pos
And moiré from Man Ray at the Met because Lytle Shaw’s “The Moiré Effect” is still on my mind. 
(you can find a copy at Cabinet Books)

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“Retour à la raison (Return to Reason)”, 1923

Digital vi
Last week I read Lytle Shaw’s “The Moiré Effect” (Can’t recommend it enough!!!) Seeing effect everywhere now. To begin, Ruth Asawa is fluent in moiré—and wants you to speak it too.

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Ruth Asawa MoMA&mda
Kate Joyce, SFO to ORD, May 5, 2012, contact sheet. From “Metaphysics” afterword by Lawrence Weschler #hatandbeardpress
studio
This is an old story. A story about a greed-blind, rapist, butcher, adulterer, traitor, conman, king. The story of “Tereus Procne and Philomela” in Ovid’s Metamorphoses is one of the most violent and brutal. Despite having her tongu
Untitled #21 (two equilateral), 2024
From the series Space Craft
Archival pigment print 
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
Rumor, Fama, Pheme 

#metamorphosesphotobook 
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