Catalogs & Exhibition Texts

Writing

One Day This Kid Will Get Larger by Danny Orendorff in Art AIDS America: Chicago, Edited by Staci Boris, Published by University of Washington Press, February 2019 | Purchase Here

Interview with Ramekon O’Arwisters, Queer Threads | Edited by John Chaich and Todd Oldham | Published by AMMO Books | 2017 | Purchase Here

One day this kid will get larger | Edited and Curatorial Essay by Danny Orendorff | DePaul Art Museum | 2017 | Download PDF

Jesse Harrod: Low Ropes Course | Introduction: Best Friends by Danny Orendorff | Published by Publication Studio (Hudson, NY) | 2017 | Purchase Here

Uranian Love Sandals in Finocchio(Ed. Scott Hunter) | Danny Orendorff | The Franklin, Chicago | 2015 | Download PDF

Anything Goes: Freedom, Fetish, and Phyllis Bramson in Phyllis Bramson: In Praise of Folly | Danny Orendorff | Rockford Art Museum | 2015 | Download PDF

The Tyranny of Good Taste: Over the Top | Exhibition Text by Danny Orendorff | la Esquina, Kansas City| 2014 | Download PDF

The Stench of Rotting Flowers: It’s Enormous & The Ruin of the Rose: Flowers in the Poetry of Renee Vivien | Exhibition Texts by Danny Orendorff & Daviel Shy | la Esquina, Kansas City | 2014 | Download PDF

A Fruity Impasto in Sabina Ott: here and there pink melon joy | Danny Orendorff | Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago | 2014 | Download PDF

Nobody Wants to Be Defeated in Kate Gilmore: Beat It | Essay by Danny Orendorff | H&R Block Artspace at the Kansas City Art Institute | 2014 | Download PDF

How Do I Look’ Group Exhibition | Catalog Contribution by Danny Orendorff | Roots & Culture Gallery, Chicago | 2013 | Download Essay PDF

We’ll Make Out Better Than Okay: Ya Gotta Be Kidding Me | Exhibition Text by Danny Orendorff | la Esquina, Kansas City | 2013 | Download PDF

“Misuse & Dislocation” Essay in The Great Refusal: Taking on New Queer Aesthetics | Edited by Oli Rodriguez | SAIC Sullivan Galleries| 2012 | Download PDF

All Good Things Become Wild & Free | Written & Edited by Danny Orendorff | Carthage College Publications | 2012 | More Info

Features & Other Essays
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Exhibitions as Experience: Moving Beyond Object Display, Danny Orendorff, Exhibitions on the Cusp, April 13, 2018

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To Art & Profit: Honey Pot Performance Interviewed by Danny Orendorff in Support Networks (Ed. Abigail Satinsky) | Chicago Social Practice History Series (Eds. Mary Jane Jacobs & Kate Zeller) | University of Chicago Press | 2015 | More Info

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Rashawn Griffin: Itinerant Domesticin Family (Ed. Alicia Eler) | Danny Orendorff | Art21 Blog | May/June 2015

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Mary Patten Remembers ‘Schizo Culture’ | Art in America Online | 2.1.13

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Good at Sext | Bad at Sports | 2.18.13

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Travelogue: Craft & (Queer) Kinship| Bad at Sports | 3.13.13

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Look at Them, Please | Other People’s Pixels | 6.11.13

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Portrait of the Artist: Matthew Paul Jinks | NewCity Chicago | 2.16.09

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Chicago Keeps It Simple | SF Camerawork Journal of Photographic Arts | Fall/Winter ’09 | Download PDF

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Art for All at Chicago’s Fairs | Art in America Online | 5.8.09

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There is always a machine between us… | Exhibition Essay | SF Camerawork Journal of Photographic Arts | Spring/Summer ’08 | Download PDF

Select Reviews
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Edie Fake’s Ecstatic Afterlives | Bad at Sports | 1.11.13

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Dana Carter at Devening Projects & Editions | NewCity Chicago | 1.26.09

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David Lozano at the Hyde Park Art Center | EdgeChicago | 11.4.08

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‘Ruined’ at Goodman Theater | EdgeChicago | 11.21.08

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Paul Doran, Dale Malner, Mette Winckelmann at Western Exhibitions | NewCity Chicago | 12.1.08

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Zak Prekop at Shane Campbell Gallery | NewCity Chicago | 12.09.08

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Melissa Dean at Peter Miller Gallery| NewCity Chicago | 12.23.08

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Encouraging Art (What I do is a bit different…) | Shotgun Review / Art Practical | 2.07