Paul Sietsema
Selected Bibliography
Books and Catalogues
2011
Ellegood, Anne and Douglas Fogle. All of This and Nothing. Los Angeles: Hammer Museum; New York: Prestel, 2011.
Gilman, Claire, and Lynne Tillman. Drawn from Photography. New York: The Drawing Center, 2011.
2010
Rowlands, Alun, and Matt Williams, eds. Novel 3, London: Novel Publications, 2010, 1.
2009
Butler, Cornelia. Figure 3: Paul Sietsema, New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2009.
Graw, Isabelle et al. The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection: Catalogue Raisonné. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2009.
Selby, Amy. Art and Text. London: Black Dog Publishing, 2009.
2008
Blanche, Craig. Collage: Assembling Contemporary Art. London: Black Dog Publishing, 2008.
David, F.R. The Book of Intentions. Amsterdam: de Appel Arts Centre, 2008.
Fogle, Douglas. Life on Mars: 55th Carnegie International. Pittsburgh: Carnegie Museum of Art, 2008.
When Things Cast No Shadow: Day. Berlin: KW Institute for Contemporary Art, 5th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art, 2008.
2007
de Corral, Maria et al. Fast Forward: Contemporary Collections for the Dallas Museum of Art. Dallas: Dallas Museum of Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007.
Lopez, Michelle. Exit Music (For a Film). New York: Grimm / Rosenfeld, 2007.
Phaidon Editors. Ice Cream. London: Phaidon Press Limited, 2007.
2 Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art. Moscow: Moscow Biennale, 2007.
2006
Coates, Rebecca. Uncanny Nature. Melbourne: Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, 2006.
Demos, T.J. Vitamin Ph: New Perspectives in Photography, with a text by Gloria Sutton. London: Phaidon Press, 2006.
Jones, Caroline A. Eyesight Alone: Clement Greenberg’s Modernism and the Bureaucratization of the Senses. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2006.
Perez, Annie et al. Le Mouvement des Images. Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2006.
2005
Birnbaum, Daniel, Gunnar B. Kvaran, and Hans Ulrich Obrist. Uncertain States of America: American Art in the 3rd Millennium. Oslo: Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, 2005.
Cueff, Alain. Hyperfocal - Five From LA. Paris: Galerie Nelson, 2005.
Kraus, Chris, Jan Tumlir, and Jane McFadden, eds. L.A. Artland: Contemporary Art from Los Angeles. London: Black Dog Publishing, 2005.
Rothfuss, Joan, and Elizabeth Carpenter. Bits & Pieces Put Together to Present a Semblance of a Whole: Walker Art Center Collections. Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 2005.
Schimmel, Paul, and Gloria Sutton. Ecstasy: In and About Altered States. Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2005.
2004
Burkard, Lene, and Cecilie Bepler. Double Floor Painting. Odense, Denmark: Kunsthallen Brandts Koedefabrik, 2004.
Cotter, Suzanne. Real World: The Dissolving Space: of Experience. Oxford: Modern Art Oxford, 2004.
2003
Iles, Chrissie. Empire: Paul Sietsema. New York: The Whitney Museum of American Art, 2003.
2001
Hoet, Jan. Sonsbeek 9. Arnhem, The Netherlands: Sonsbeek 9; Los Angeles: Regen Projects, 2001.
Intra, Giovanni. Bright Paradise, 1st Auckland Triennial. Auckland: The 1st Auckland, New Zealand Triennial, 2001.
Sladen, Mark. The Americans: New Art. London: Barbican Art Gallery, 2001.
2000
Hainley, Bruce and Dennis Cooper. Mise En Scene: New LA Sculpture. Santa Monica: Santa Monica Museum of Art, 2000.
Kertess, Klaus. 00: Drawings 200. New York: Barbara Gladstone Gallery, 2000.
1999
Ohno, Megan. The Perfect Life: Artifice in LA. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Museum of Art, 1999.
Selected Articles
2011
Bedford, Christopher. “A Project,” Art Journal, Spring 2011, cover, pp. 54-69.
Didžiapetris, Gintaras. “Gintaras Didžiapetris talks with Paul Sietsema,” The Federal, Issue # 2, October 2011, pp. 21-28.
Kunitz, Daniel. "Paul Sietsema," Modern Painters, September 2011, p. 90.
Mizota, Sharon. “ ‘All of This and Nothing’ at UCLA Hammer Museum.” Los Angeles Times, 2 March 2011, D1, D6.
Rosenberg, Karen. “Authorship or Translation? Notes Toward Redefining Creativity.” The New York Times, 25 February 2011, C26.
Scott, Andrea K. “Winning Hand,” The New Yorker, 21 March 2011, 10.
Xtina. “See All of This And Nothing at UCLA Hammer Museum.” Wherela.com, 11 March 2011.
Walleston, Aimee. “Photo Finish: Q+A With Paul Sietsema,” Art in America, 13 May 2011.
2010
Baker, Kenneth. “Hauntology: Perception Makes Art Spookier.” San Francisco Chronicle, 12 August 2010, F3.
Clark, Martin. “Reasons to be Cheerful!” Frieze 131, May 2010, 96.
Coxhead, Gabriel. “Paul Sietsema.” Time Out London, 15-21 July 2010.
Fite-Wassilak, Chris. “Paul Sietsema.” Frieze 134, October 2010, 245.
Hamilton, Julia E. “A Spectre is Haunting Berkeley.” ArtSlant, 2 August 2010.
Hosman, Hayley. “BAM Conjures the Ghost of Hauntology.” The Daily Californian, 15 July 2010.
Johnson, Ken. “Spirals of Self-Reflection, Made by Methods Mysterious.” The New York Times, 8 January 2010, C34.
“Paul Sietsema.” The Guardian Guide, 3-9 July 2010.
Prince, Mark. “Art and Illusionism.” Art Monthly 339, September 2010, 11-14.
________. “Gordon Matta-Clark.” Frieze 134, October 2010.
________. “Paul Sietsema.” Art in America, 16 November 2010.
Stander, Sam. “Against Nostalgia.” San Francisco Bay Guardian Online, 20 July 2010.
Wing, Liz. “Hauntology.” The Brooklyn Rail, September 2010.
2009
“El Museo Reina Sofia inicia el programa ‘Fisuras’ con Paul Sietsema.” adn.es (Spain), 15 March 2009.
Goldstein, Andrew. “Paul Sietsema at MoMA.” City Arts: New York’s Review of Culture, 3 December 2009.
“Paul Sietsema.” The New Yorker, 2 November 2009, 16.
"Paul Sietsema en las "Fisuras" del Reina Sofia.” Revista de Arte (Spain), 19 May 2009.
Rosenberg, Karen. “3 Artists Selected by Dan Graham and a Work by Dan Graham.” The New York Times, 8 May 2009, C29.
“Sietsema inaugura ‘Fisuras’ en el Museo Reina Sofia.” elmundo.es (Spain), 19 May 2009.
Velasco, David. “Dance: Best of 2009.” Artforum 48, December 2009, 69.
2008
Bankowsky, Jack. “Paul Sietsema, Figure 3.” Artforum 47, December 2008, 273.
Herbert, Martin. “5th Berlin Biennial.” Frieze, May 2008, 165-6.
Johnson, Ken. “Modernist Optimism and Postmodernist Doubt.” The New York Times, 22 August 2008, E29.
Knight, Christopher. “Extraterrestrial Earthlings find ‘Life.’ ” The Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2008, E1 & E6-7.
Morrone, Francis. “Changing Times, Changing Notions: ‘Progress’ at the Whitney.” The New York Sun, 14 August 2008.
Muchnic, Suzanne. “Goes the old-fashion way.” Los Angeles Times, 21 May 2008, E1 & E12.
Schwarting, Jen. “Progress.” The Brooklyn Rail, October 2008, 31.
Searle, Adrian. “Toil and Rubble.” The Guardian, 8 April 2008.
Smith, Roberta. “An Alien Sighting on Planet Pittsburgh.” The New York Times, 9 May 2008, B25-6.
Vesters, Christel. “Paul Sietsema De Appel.” Flash Art, July – September 2008, 254.
West, Kevin. “Shape Shifter.” W Magazine, April 2008, 182.
“Whitney Museum of American Art,” The New Yorker, 15 September 2006, 16.
2007
Cueff, Alain. “L’empire de la vision.” Les Cahiers du Musée National d’Art Moderne. Paris: Centre Pompidou, Winter 2007, 22-29.
Hainley, Bruce. “ Vluchtige Notities – Los Angeles.” Metropolis M, February 2007.
2006
“Anne Collier & Paul Sietsema: Discipline.” The Wrong Times, New York, NY, 3-4.
Black, Ezrha Jean. “Ecstacy.” art US 11, December 2005–January 2006.
Blom, Ina. “The Young Americans.” Texte zur Kunst, March 2006, NR 61.
Sietsema, Paul. “Focus Los Angeles: Paul Sietsema.” Flash Art, January – February 2006, 74.
2005
Gronlund, Melissa. “A Certain Tendency in Representation,” Frieze, November/December 2005, 146.
Hall, James. “‘Real World,’ ” Artforum, February 2005, 186.
Knight, Christopher. “Take a Mind Excursion,” The Los Angeles Times, 11 October 2005, pp. E1 & E5, ill.
Pincus, Robert L. “Alter Your State of Mind at ‘Ecstasy,’ ” San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 November 2005.
2004
“Art Acquisitions in 2003: Paul Sietsema.” American Patrons of the Tate: Annual Report 2003, 2003, 22-23.
Harrison, Sara. “Real World: The Dissolving Space of Experience.” Art Monthly, November 2004, 36 –37.
Sietsema, Paul. “Ground Control,” Artforum, October 2004, 152, 286, 288.
2003
Anton, Saul. “Paul Sietsema.” Artforum, June 2003, 183.
Baker, George; Matthew Buckingham; Hal Foster; Chrissie Iles; Anthony McCall; Malcolm Turvey. “Round Table: The Projected Image in Contemporary Art.” October 104, Spring 2003, 85.
Menin, Samuele and Valentine Sansone. “Focus Video and Film.” Flash Art, March - April 2003, 98.
________. Fence Magazine 6, Number 1, 2003, 96.
Myers, Terry. “Paul Sietsema: Form Projector.” Contemporary 57, November 2003, 32-35.
“Paul Sietsema: Empire.” The New Yorker, 21 and 28 April 2003, 36.
Smith, Roberta. The New York Times, 23 May 2003, B34.
Wilkin, Karen. “Paul Sietsema at the Whitney.” Art in America, October 2003, 127-128.
2002
Art & Auction, October 2002, 44.
Cattelan, Maurizio, Massimiliano Gioni, and Ali Subotnick, eds. Charley, Issue 01, New York: Les Presses due Reel, January 2002.
Hainley, Bruce. “Model Theory,” Frieze 71, November/December 2002, 90-93.
________."Best of 2002." Artforum, December 2002, 128-129.
Helfand, Glen. “Los Angeles Critics’ Pick: Paul Sietsema.” Artforum.com, September 2002.
Iles, Chrissie. "Best of 2002." Artforum, December 2002, 27.
Knight, Christopher. “Color in Cinematic Space.” Los Angeles Times, 4 October 2002, F24-F25.
________. “Work That Seems to Hold That Thought.” Los Angeles Times, 29 July 2002, F1, F11.
Rinder, Lawrence. “Film Set,” Nest 17, Summer 2002, 92-99.
Smee, Sebastian. “Empire, by Paul Sietsema, Regen Projects, Los Angeles.” The Art Newspaper, October 2002, 9.
2001
Baker, Kenneth. "Just Look at the Sculpture and There is Los Angeles." San Francisco Chronicle, 27 January 2001, B1, B10.
Cooper, Jacqueline. "Shiny Happy People: Art and Special Effects." New Art Examiner, July-August, 2001, 74.
Corrigan, Susan. “New York Sucks!” I-D, October 2001, 184-190.
Darwent, Charles. “Visual Art: American Art is Different Now.” The Independent, 28 October 2001.
Hackworth, Nick. “Puddles, Plants and One Small Joy,” The Evening Standard, 6 November 2001.
Herbert, Martin. "States of the Art." ArtReview, October 2001, 51.
Knight, Christopher. "A Little of This." Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2001, F22.
Shamash, Diane. “Nature, Faith and Commerce.” Art in America, December 2001, 38-42.
Sietsema, Paul. "Paul McCarthy by Paul Sietsema," Issue 5, 2001, 148-153.
Yablonsky, Linda. "Downtown Armory: Surviving the Growing Pains.” Art & Auction, April 2001, 74.
2000
Blackwell, Josh. “Mise -en-Scene.” Art Issues, September/October 2000, 56.
Hainley, Bruce. “Towards a Funner Laocoon: The New LA Sculpture.” Artforum, Summer 2000, 166-173.
Knight, Christopher. “A Web of Illusion.” Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2000, F1, F10.
________. “Young L.A. Sculptors.” Los Angeles Times, 24 December 2000, 67.
"Paul Sietsema," ZOO 6, August 2000, 198.
1999
Bartolucci, Noah. "A Critical look at L.A. myths." Dialogue, 4 April 1999, 5.
Greenberg, Blue. "Artifice makes arty reality in Duke exhibit." The Herald Sun, 16 April 1999, 4.
Hainley, Bruce. "Openings: Paul Sietsema." Artforum, February 1999, 86.
________. "Paul Sietsema: Showing What's Missing." Interview, June 1999, 50.
Kauffman, Susan. "...A Perfect image of L.A." The New Observer, 13 April 1999, 12.
Natale, Michele. "West Meets East." Spectator, May 18, 1999, 23.
Twardy, Chuck. "Home on the Strange." What's Up, 14 May 1999, 25.
1998
Delaney, Ella. "Mark Grotjahn, Paul Sietsema, and Brent Petersen." Art Papers, January / February 1998, 72.
ZYZZYVA, Vol. XIV, No. 1, Spring 1998, 151.
1997
Helfand, Glen. "Brent Petersen, Mark Grotjahn, Paul Sietsema." Bay Guardian, 16 August 1997, 28.
1996
Fazzorlari, Bruno. "Mark Grotjahn and Paul Sietsema." Artweek, May/June 1996, 21.
Hankwitz, Molly. "Mark Grotjahn and Paul Sietsema." Art Papers, 25 July 1996, 34-35.
Books by the Artist
2001
Paul Sietsema. Construction of Vision. Arnhem, The Netherlands: Sonsbeek 9; Los Angeles, Regen Projects, 2001.
Selected Interviews
2011
Didžiapetris, Gintaras. “Gintaras Didžiapetris talks with Paul Sietsema,” The Federal, Issue # 2, October 2011, pp. 21-28.
Walleston, Aimee. “Photo Finish: Q+A With Paul Sietsema,” Art in America, 13 May 2011.
2010
Mull, Carter. “Paul Sietsema: Interview with Carter Mull”. Marcel 3, September 2010, 2, 6-7.
2009
Berardini, Andrew. “Forever and Never Hit Bottom: Interview with Paul Sietsema.” Mousse Magazine 16, December/January 2009, 26-29.
Hainley, Bruce. “Skeleton Key: A Conversation with Paul Sietsema.” Figure 3: Paul Sietsema. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2009, 41-51.
2008
Subotnik, Ali. “1,000 Words: Paul Sietsema Talks about Figure 3, 2008.” Artforum, March 2008, 338-341.
2005
Cornand, Brigitte. “Hyper Focal- Interview with Paul Sietsema and Lisa Lapinski,” Radio Nova (Paris), Broadcast on 20 March 2005.
Cueff, Alain. “Interview with Paul Sietsema and Alain Cueff.” Hyperfocal - Five From LA. Paris: Galerie Nelson, 2005, 26-29, 66-68.
2003
Intra, Giovanni. "Paul Sietsema: Empire." Flash Art, January/February 2003, 82- 83.
2000
Pettibon, Raymond. "Paul Sietsema by Raymond Pettibon." Issue 4, 2000, 146-151.