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ACADEMIC ESSAYS

Doktorczyk-Donohue, Marlena, The Waitresses in Context. In "The Waitresses Unpeeled: Performance Art and Life." Allyn, Jerri and Gauldin, Anne, Eds, Otis College fo Art and Design, LA, 2008, pp. 4-19.

Doktorczyk-Donohue, It’s Not Easy To Be A Visionary in Smog: The Work of Kim Abeles, Fresno Museum of Art, August,  2022.

Doktorczyk-Donohue, Marlena, Bruce Beasley: A New Direction, Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, 2019.

Doktorczyk-Donohue, Marlena, The Waitresses in Context. In Allyn, J., Gauldin, A., Eds., The Waitresses Unpeeled: Performance Art and Life. Otis College of Art and Design: LA, 2011.

Doktorczyk-Donohue, Marlena, “Framing Abstraction,” in Doktorczyk-Donohue, M., Ed., Framing Abstraction: Mark, Sign, Signifier. Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, LA, 2011.

Doktorczyk-Donohue, Annetta Kapon: The Measure of Value: A Marxist View, LAX Art, Sept. 2011

Doktorczyk-Donohue, Marlena, SOS—The Sisters of Survival in Context. Linton, M;  Gaulke C,  Eds., Ben Maltz Gallery, LA, 2011.

Doktorczyk-Donohue, Marlena, Patrick Graham, pp 25-29. In Sisley, L., Ed., The Quick and the Dead. Dublin City Gallery Hugh Lane: Dublin, Gallery Press, 2009.

Doktorczyk-Donohue, Marlena, The Semiotics of the Itsy Bitsy Bikini, pp. 67-74. In Giuntini, P., Hagen, K., Eds., Garb: A Fashion Theory Reader, Prentice Hall: NY, 2008.

 


Introspective Magazine


Donohue, Marlena, David Hockney Changes Perspectives, Introspective Magazine, NY, March, 2014

Donohue, Marlena, Picasso Up Close, Introspective Magazine, NY, March, 2012

Donohue, Marlena, “Calder and Abstraction,” Introspective, NY, March, 2014

Donohue, Marlena, Abstraction After Warhol, Introspective Magazine, NY, March, 2012

Donohue, Marlena, “The Tapestries of Peter Paul Rubens at the Getty Center,” Introspective, New York, February, 2015.

Donohue, Marlena, Going for the Bronze, Introspective Magazine, NY, March, 2011

Donohue, Marlena, Ed Ruscha Still Finds His Kicks on Route 66, Introspective Magazine, NY, March, 2016.

Donohue, Marlena, George Bellows, Introspective Magazine, NY, March, 2013.

Donohue, Marlena, King Tut Returns, Introspective Magazine, NY, Oct., 2018.

Donohue, Marlena, American Contemporary Artist Donald Sultan, Introspective Magazine, NY, Oct, 2016.

Donohue, Marlena, The Secret Society of Rebellious Artists, Introspective Magazine, NY, August, 2018.

Donohue, Marlena, 17 Ancient Gems at the Getty, Introspective Magazine, NY, Feb., 2020.

Donohue, Marlena, Empire of Style: The Habsburgs, Introspective Magazine, NY, August, 2015.

Donohue, Marlena, “Winterhalter Portraitist to Royals,” Introspective, New York, April-May, 2016.

Donohue, Marlena, Houghton Hall by Way of Houston, Introspective Magazine, NY, Sept. 2014.

Donohue, Marlena, The Paintings of Stuart Davis, Introspective, New York, April-May, 2016.

Donohue, Marlena, “Diaghelev and the Birth of the Avant Garde,” Introspective, NY, May, 2013

 

 



Donohue, Marlena “Bruce Beasley: Gestures,” Museum of Contemporary Art Beijing, Nov 2015

Donohue, Marlena, “Qin Feng: Intersections,” Monograph. Himalaya Museum, Shanghai, June, 2015

Donohue, Marlena, "Ink Techniques in the Works of Huang Zheng -- Contemporary Positions/Ancient Roots". Museum of Contemporary Art Press, Beijing, July, 2014.  
 
Donohue, Marlena, "Forms of the Formless: Abstraction in Eastern Philosophy and Western Modern Art", in Michael Suh, Marlena Donohue, Eds, Forms of the Formless, Museum of Contemporary Art Press, Beijing, Dec. 2014.


Donohue, Marlena, “Expanded Art Spaces: The Contributions of the ASCO Art Collective,” in Harper, Glenn, Ed. Alternative Public Art. International Sculpture Center, NY, 2013.
 
Donohue, Marlena, “Bruce Beasley Outdoor Sculptures at UC Berkeley: Public Space/Modern Aesthetics,” University of California sponsored Catalog.  Sept. 2013


Donohue, Marlena, Revisiting the Bauhaus,” ArtScene Digest, Jan. 2016



Donohue, Marlena, “Unbound at Edward Cella Art and Architecture,” ARTltd, May/June Issue, 2015.

Donohue, Marlena, “Ben Jackel at LA Louver Gallery,” ArtScene Digest, April 2015



Donohue, Marlena, “Allison Saar at Watts Towers,” Visual Art Source, February, 2015

Donohue, Marlena, "Tim  Ebner  at  Rosamund Felson Gallery," ArtScene, May 2014
 
Donohue, Marlena, “Georgia O’ Keeffe and the Landscape,” Introspective, New York, April,. 2014
 

Donohue, Marlena, “David Hockney Goes Digital,” Introspective, New York, Jan.  2014
 

Donohue, Marlena, “George Bellows at the National Gallery of Art,” Introspective Magazine, NY, April 2013


 
Donohue, Marlena, “Vermeer Visits the Getty Center: A Talk with the Curator,” Introspective Magazine, NY, Feb, 2013
 
Donohue, Marlena, “Eleanor Antin,” ArtLTD  Mar. 2012

Donohue, Marlena, “Caravaggio and His School,” Introspective Magazine, NY, March 2013

Donohue, Marlena, “Faberge Designs, “ Introspective Magazine, NY, Aug., 2013

Donohue, Marlena, “A Conversation with Peter Shelton,”  Sculpture , Washington DC, Mar. 2012
 
Donohue, Marlena, Evelyn Hankins on Blinky Palermo at the Hirshhorn Museum, Introspective Magazine NY, 2012
 
Donohue, Marlena,  Molly Donovan on “Andy Warhol: Headlines at the National Gallery of Art,” Introspective Magazine, NY, 2012
 
Donohue, Marlena , Britt Salvesen,  on Ellsworth Kelly at LACMA,
Introspective Magazine, NY, 2012.
 
Donohue, Marlena , “Chiyo Ishikawa on Pablo Picasso at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts,” Introspective Magazine, NY, 2012
 
Donohue, Marlena ,” Lisa Melandri on Beatrice Wood at Santa Monica Museum of Art.” Introspective Magazine, NY,  2012

Donohue, Marlena . Interview: Rose Shoshana and Marta Daho on  Graciela
Iturbide at the Van Gogh/Rencontres d’Arles Centre Cultural, Arles, France. Introspective Magazine, NY,  2012.
 
Donohue, Marlena, “Roy Lichtenstein and the Legacy of Pop at the Chicago Art Institute,  Introspective Magazine, NY, June 2012

Donohue, Marlena, “The Steins Collect: on View at SFMOA,” Huffington Post, 2012
 
Donohue, Marlena, “Lise Sarfati at Rose Gallery,” Huffington Post, 2012:
 
Donohue, Marlena, “An Homage to Lucien Freud and Amy Winehouse,” Huffington Post, 2010.


 

Donohue, Marlena ,“Ruth Weisberg at Jack Rutberg,” Visual Art Source, 2010
 
Donohue, Marlena , “Editor’s Note: Cheri Gaulke,” Visual Art Source, 2010
 
Donohue, Marlena , “Ellsworth Kelly at LACMA,”  ArtScene, 2007
 



Donohue, Marlena, “Yamandu Canosa, Three Spots,” Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, 2007..

Donohue, Marlena, “An Afro American Vision: The Works of Phoebe Beasley.” Exhibition Catalogue, M Hanks Gallery, Los Angeles, California, 2005.

Donohue, Marlena, “Thomas Skomski.”  Exhibition Catalogue, South
Bend Museum of Art, Indiana, 2001
 
Donohue, Marlena, “The Work of Judith Reifman: Memory and Desire.”  Exhibition Catalogue, Sherry Frumkin Gallery, Santa Monica, California,1994.
 
Donohue, Marlena,   Heidi Fasnact: Recent Sculpture.  Exhibition Catalogue, Janus Gallery, New York, New York, 1994.
 
Donohue, Marlena, “The Sculpture of Bruce Beasley.” Exhibition Catalogue, Oakland Museum of Art, with Peter Selz, 1992
 

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