Dr. Jones is the author of two books published by Duke University Press, EyeMinded: Living and Writing Contemporary Art (2011), and South of Pico: African American Artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s (2017). Her latest book, October Files: David Hammons, is forthcoming from MIT Press in 2025. In addition, she has contributed essays and interviews to a variety of publications. Please consider supporting your local bookstore with any purchase.
Books
Essays
“Paradox of the Gone” in David Hammons: Day’s End Whitney Museum of American Art, 2024
“Nancy Elizabeth Prophet and Augusta Savage: Sculptural Habits of Black Modernism,” in Huey Copeland and Steven Nelson, eds. Black Modernisms in the Transatlantic World. Washington D.C.: Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, 2023
“The World According to Linda Goode Bryant,” in Just Above Midtown 1974 to the Present Museum of Modern Art, 2022
“Intermedial Doggerel,” in Ulysses Jenkins: Without Your Interpretation Hammer Museum and Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, 2021
“When Painting Stepped Out to Lunch,” in Terry R. Myers, ed Candida Alvarez: Here. A Visual Reader Chicago: The Green Lantern Press, 2020