Project #1: Notes
Notes is a year-long series of essays that use an autotheoretical strategy to explore art and culture at large. Working within a rhizomatic structure, the project’s originating participants include Elizabeth Rooklidge, Justin Duyao, and Dillon Chapman.
Read their early thoughts about the project here: Notes: A Conversation on Autotheory.
Participants:
Elizabeth Rooklidge
[Image Description: A black and white photograph of Elizabeth looking at the camera with a slight smile. She is a white woman with chin-length brown hair and is wearing a dark shirt.]
Elizabeth Rooklidge is an independent curator, writer, and educator based in San Diego, CA. She previously served as Assistant Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego and Associate Curator at the Katonah Museum of Art. She curated the recent exhibitions Memory Traces: Artists Transform the Archive for the La Jolla Historical Society (2022); Flavia D’Urso: Slippage of a Strand for Grand Central Art Center (2020); and A Show About Touching for Bread & Salt Gallery (2019). She founded HereIn Journal in 2020 and currently acts as Editor, frequently contributing writing and interviews. She earned her M.A. in art history from Williams College and teaches art history at the University of San Diego.
Justin Duyao
[Image Description: A black-and-white photo of a person with dark hear wearing round glasses and a knit sweater.]
Justin Duyao is a contributing editor at HereIn Journal. As a San Diego-based art writer, he is the recipient of a Make | Learn | Build grant from Oregon's Regional Arts and Culture Council, as well as a writing fellowship from the Hallie Ford School of Graduate Studies at PNCA. His art writing has been published by Oregon ArtsWatch, Variable West, the San Diego Union-Tribune, HereIn Journal, Vanguard Culture, and Southwest Contemporary.
Dillon Chapman
[Image Description: A black and white photograph of Dillon looking at the camera. She is a white woman with shoulder-length, medium toned wavy hair. Dillon is wearing a dark shirt and necklace with a flower pendant, posed with a window to the left and an exposed brick wall behind her.]
Dillon Chapman is a Southern California-based artist, educator, and autotheorist who investigates notions of self as subject/object. Drawing from personal and cultural archives, her practice contemplates intimacy, desire, and relations of power through writing and image-making. Chapman holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Southern Methodist University, and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of California, San Diego. Her work has been included in exhibitions, screenings, performances, and publications, both nationally and internationally, in venues including the Women’s Center for Creative Work (Los Angeles), the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD), HereIn Journal (San Diego), and CURA. Magazine (Rome). She currently teaches writing at University of California San Diego, film studies at University of San Diego, and art history at San Diego State University.