Books and Catalogues

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2017: Catalogue, "Double Vision: Artists Who Instagram," curated by Janice Caswell and Erick Johnson, LABspace, Hillsdale, NY.
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2016: Catalogue, "Recurrence," curated by Julie Lohnes, Mandeville Gallery, Union College, Schenectady, NY. My 21 drawings: 20 small "Field Studies" and 1 large piece, "Midnight Field," all starting with fields of "#" signs.
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2013: Catalogue, "Notations: Contemporary Drawing as Idea and Process," Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis.
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2012: Catalogue, "New York, Singular Drawings: 11th Annual Drawing Invitational" at the Arkansas Arts Center (Little Rock, AR), Summer 2012, curated by Charlotta Kotik, Senior Curator Emerita of Contemporary Art at The Brooklyn Museum. My artworks: two Laid Line drawings and two medieval pattern pieces.
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2012: Catalogue, "On Silence" at the NYCAMS Gallery, partly in commemoration of John Cage's centenary.
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2009: Exhibition catalogue for "New York: New Drawings 1946-2007" (Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Esteban Vicente, Segovia, Spain, 2009), in which two of my drawings were included and I composed catalogue entries for William Anastasi, Agnes Martin, and Marjorie Welisch.
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2006: Entry for one of four Agnes Martin obituary tracings ("Agnes Martin, The Los Angeles Times, 17 December 2004, II," tape on vellum, 17 x 14 inches, 2005) in the collection of Madeira Corporate Services (www.mcs.pt; online art catalogue at www.coleccaomcs.com), now housed at the Serralves Foundation in Oporto, Portugal. The print version, "Desenhos [drawings]: A-Z," was published in 2006, edited by collection curator Adriano Pedrosa.
Articles and Reviews

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2017: Critic's Pick, Artforum: Zachary Sachs selects "Sites of Knowledge," a summer group exhibition with themes of space and language, at Jane Lombard Gallery in Chelsea.
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2016: "Getting In Shape for the New Year" by Teresa Chen, in the Yale Daily News, about the "New Geometry" group exhibition at Fred Giampietro Gallery, New Haven, CT, January 22.
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2015: "Artists Explore Ramifications of Repetition" by William Jaeger, in the Albany Times Union, about the "Recurrence" invitational exhibition at Union College, Schenectady, NY, December 30.
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2015: "Conversations: 'Type of Abstraction' at Key Projects," a series of reflections on Tamar Zinn's blog.
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2015: "Karen Schiff at BravinLee Programs" post at fibonaccisusan.com, Susan Happersett's blog about mathematical art.
2015: Urmil Shah, "Short, Fast, and Deadly Podcast," https://urmilsblog.wordpress.com/2015/03/04/32/. This "remake" of my portfolio is another kind of tribute (?!): https://urmilsblog.wordpress.com/2015/03/16/fingerings-by-karen-schiff-remake/.
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2013: Andrew Knutson posted photos and a writeup of his time in my studio during Gowanus Open Studios, to his Art in Limbo blog.
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2013: Raymond E. Mingst wrote up his visit to my studio during Gowanus Open Studios weekend, on the blog for his Curious Matter gallery.
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2013: Amy Barry, "Artists on the same page in Old Lyme Exhibit," The Day, 2/2/13, front-page story in the Arts/Weekend section (C1-2). For a full pdf, click on the logo at left; to read it online (with only 1 image), go to http://www.theday.com/article/20130202/ENT16/302029986/0/Search.
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2012: Anna Kim writes about the four pieces I have in the "Art=Text=Art" exhibition, which started at the University of Richmond Art Museum in Fall 2011, and is at the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University through January 6, 2013.
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2012: An interview (including an audio clip) about my Laid Line drawings project, with collector Wynn Kramarsky and curator Rachel Nackman, on the occasion of the exhibition "Notations: Contemporary Drawing as Idea and Process" (at the Kemper Art Museum at Washington University in St. Louis, through January 7, 2013).
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2011: "Art=Text=Art" review in the November/December 2011 issue of Art Papers.
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2011: "I Want Your Text" Style Weekly article on the "Art=Text=Art" exhibition at the University of Richmond art museum.
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2011: William Anastasi, online catalogue entry about my piece in the "Drawn/Taped/Burned: Abstraction on Paper" exhibition, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York, January-May 2011. For the online version, go to: http://www.aboutdrawing.org/drawntapedburned/?p=982.
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2010: ABC (Madrid weekly), article about an exhibition I was in at Galeria Astarte, "Papel(es)," which translates as "Papers" and "Paper Is."
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2009: Kunstforum, interview excerpt - collector and MoMA trustee Wynn Kramarsky talks about my work. Full article available at http://www.kunstforum.de/inhaltsverzeichnis2.asp?session=&band=196&artikel=
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2009: The Jewish Press, review of the Cultural Heritage Artists Project exhibition, at the John Slade Ely House in New Haven, CT. The article discusses the video I worked on with Shalom Gorewitz.
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2009: Zeek magazine says, "Karen Schiff contributed an insightful essay on our evolving relationship to art as we contemplate history." See the section below for a link to the catalogue essay, called "Elsewhere and Otherwise."
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2007: Taos News article about the Open Studio I held, and the work I was doing, while I was an Artist in Residence at the Harwood Museum of Art, Spring 2007.
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2007: Taos News, article about my Agnes Martin Obituary Project, during my residency at the Harwood Museum of Art, in Agnes Martin's adopted hometown of Taos, New Mexico, Spring 2007.
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2006: My artist's page at Jentel, a residency I did in Sheridan, WY in Summer 2006. Includes an image of a piece I was doing at the time.
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2006: Art New England, review of the "water marks" film I showed in the project room at the Kingston Gallery, Boston, during Mary Lang's exhibition of photographs, "Groundless."
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2006: artscope magazine, article (including an image) discussing the tree grate rubbing I had in the "Boston Young Contemporaries" exhibition.
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2004: Boston Globe, Cate McQuaid writes about my collages of pages from Shakespeare plays.
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2004: Weekly Dig, Boston, another review that mentions a collage of book pages from Shakespeare.
Selected Website Listings

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2009: Catalogue entry about Agnes Martin -- a typographical interpretation of a Wallace Stevens stanza -- for the exhibition, "New York, New Drawings: 1946-2007" at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Esteban Vicente, in Segovia Spain