Inside-Out: Standing in a Threshold is an artwork unfolding in publication form. It begins with a persistent question: how do we remain connected—really—across distance, time, absence, and difference? Rather than treating connection as metaphor alone, the work approaches it as something lived, material, and quietly sustained through attention, exchange, and care.
It unfolds through ongoing conversations with artists including Dana Hoey, Keltie Ferris, Anna Ostoya, Liz Magic Laser in collaboration with Cori Kresge, Sara VanDerBeek, Michael Joo, Craig Kalpakjian, Robert Janitz, Prem Krishnamurthy, Frédéric Tcheng, and Kathryn Andrews/The Judith Center, featuring Linda Vallejo and Warren Neidich.
INSIDE-OUT: Standing in a Threshold
An Artwork as Publication
2024-2026
held in conversation with others
held in conversation with others
These cexchanges take shape as series of individual booklets, each emerging through an extended conversation between me and each participating artist. While these dialogues form the relational ground of the project, each booklet ultimately becomes a space shaped by the artist’s methods, materials, rhythms, and modes of thinking. The booklets do not function as documentation of an exhibition, but as a constellation—distributed, intimate, and nonlinear.
Inside-Out is ongoing. The publication is both container and site: a place where artistic thinking circulates through image, text, material experiment, and lived exchange. Documentation unfolds gradually, following the order of the publication itself.
Only a glimpse. The pages continue to unfold in time.
Contributors
Inside-Out brings together artists, filmmakers, cultural practitioners whose contributions shape the artwork through an ongoing series of conversations.
Tamar Halpern
Tamar Halpern is a New York–based artist working across painting, photography, print, and publication. They are the artist, founder, and editor of Inside-Out: Standing in a Threshold, an ongoing artwork in publication form. Their work explores surface as both threshold and record through layered processes involving silk, photographic imagery, pigment dispersion, and print. Halpern’s work has been exhibited internationally and is held in the collections of the Marciano Art Foundation, the Kravis Collection, the Rosenblum Collection, the Jay Jopling Collection, and the Thea Westreich Collection.
Dana Hoey
Dana Hoey is an artist working across photography, video, installation, and writing. Her work has been exhibited internationally and is held in the collections of institutions including the Guggenheim Museum, SFMOMA, and MOCA Los Angeles. She recently completed a Master of Divinity at Harvard Divinity School.
Frédéric Tcheng
Frédéric Tcheng is a filmmaker known for the documentaries Dior and I, Halston, and Invisible Beauty. His films explore the intersections of art, fashion, culture, and identity, and have premiered at major international film festivals including Sundance, Tribeca, and Venice.
Michael Joo
Michael Joo is an interdisciplinary artist whose work explores the movement of materials, histories, and identities across cultural and ecological systems. His work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Venice Biennale, and is held in the collections of institutions including MoMA, the Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and LACMA.
Tamar Halpern is a New York–based artist working across painting, photography, print, and publication. They are the artist, founder, and editor of Inside-Out: Standing in a Threshold, an ongoing artwork in publication form. Their work explores surface as both threshold and record through layered processes involving silk, photographic imagery, pigment dispersion, and print. Halpern’s work has been exhibited internationally and is held in the collections of the Marciano Art Foundation, the Kravis Collection, the Rosenblum Collection, the Jay Jopling Collection, and the Thea Westreich Collection.
Dana Hoey
Dana Hoey is an artist working across photography, video, installation, and writing. Her work has been exhibited internationally and is held in the collections of institutions including the Guggenheim Museum, SFMOMA, and MOCA Los Angeles. She recently completed a Master of Divinity at Harvard Divinity School.
Frédéric Tcheng
Frédéric Tcheng is a filmmaker known for the documentaries Dior and I, Halston, and Invisible Beauty. His films explore the intersections of art, fashion, culture, and identity, and have premiered at major international film festivals including Sundance, Tribeca, and Venice.
Michael Joo
Michael Joo is an interdisciplinary artist whose work explores the movement of materials, histories, and identities across cultural and ecological systems. His work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Venice Biennale, and is held in the collections of institutions including MoMA, the Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and LACMA.
Keltie Ferris
Keltie Ferris is a painter whose work investigates abstraction through color, movement, and embodied mark-making. He received an MFA from the Yale School of Art, and his work has been exhibited internationally and is held in the collections of institutions including the Speed Art Museum, the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art.
Sara VanDerBeek
Sara VanDerBeek is an artist whose work examines photography, memory, and the transmission of images across time. She has presented solo exhibitions at institutions including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Hammer Museum, and the Baltimore Museum of Art.
Craig Kalpakjian
Craig Kalpakjian is an artist whose work investigates architecture, perception, and systems of control through photography, sculpture, and digitally constructed space. His work has been exhibited internationally and is held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Centre Pompidou.
Robert Janitz
Robert Janitz is a painter whose work treats the painted surface as a threshold between inner and outer worlds, using oil, wax, and flour to create materially charged abstractions. His work has been exhibited internationally and is held in the collections of SFMOMA, the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, the Hall Art Foundation, and the Collezione Maramotti.
Keltie Ferris is a painter whose work investigates abstraction through color, movement, and embodied mark-making. He received an MFA from the Yale School of Art, and his work has been exhibited internationally and is held in the collections of institutions including the Speed Art Museum, the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art.
Sara VanDerBeek
Sara VanDerBeek is an artist whose work examines photography, memory, and the transmission of images across time. She has presented solo exhibitions at institutions including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Hammer Museum, and the Baltimore Museum of Art.
Craig Kalpakjian
Craig Kalpakjian is an artist whose work investigates architecture, perception, and systems of control through photography, sculpture, and digitally constructed space. His work has been exhibited internationally and is held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Centre Pompidou.
Robert Janitz
Robert Janitz is a painter whose work treats the painted surface as a threshold between inner and outer worlds, using oil, wax, and flour to create materially charged abstractions. His work has been exhibited internationally and is held in the collections of SFMOMA, the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, the Hall Art Foundation, and the Collezione Maramotti.
Anna Ostoya
New York–based artist Anna Ostoya works across painting, collage, photomontage, and installation. She combines different visual languages and techniques, often drawing on motifs from the press, art history, and everyday life to reframe their meanings. Her work has been exhibited at Tate St Ives, the Lyon Biennial, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, and The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and is held in the collections of MoMA and other institutions.
Prem Krishnamurthy
Prem Krishnamurthy is a curator, writer, designer, and educator whose work spans exhibitions, publications, institutions, and experimental forms of cultural production. He founded the exhibition space P! in New York and served as artistic director of FRONT International 2022: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art. In 2015, he won the Cooper Hewitt’s National Design Award for Communications Design. He is the author of P!DF, On Letters, and Past Words.
Liz Magic Laser
Liz Magic Laser is a New York–based artist working across video, performance, and installation. Her projects examine the aesthetics and theatricality of power—tracing how authority is performed across political, corporate, journalistic, and medical systems. Often developed through collaborations with journalists, actors, dancers, political strategists, and medical professionals, her work has been presented at MoMA PS1, the Whitney Museum of American Art, Performa, Centre Pompidou, and the Guggenheim Museum..
Cori Kresge
Cori Kresge is a New York–based dancer, choreographer, poet, teacher, massage therapist, and facilitator. A former member of the Merce Cunningham Repertory Understudy Group and collaborator with numerous artists across dance, performance, film, and visual art, her practice explores movement, language, participatory structures, mysticism, and embodied knowledge.
The Judith Center
The Judith Center is a Los Angeles–based arts organization. The Center produces exhibitions, commissions, talks, workshops, and interdisciplinary programs that invite people from different fields into dialogue around the structural nature of sexism and possibilities for change. The Center was founded and is directed by Kathryn Andrews, an artist and psychotherapist. Andrews’s artwork has been exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the U.S. and internationally.
New York–based artist Anna Ostoya works across painting, collage, photomontage, and installation. She combines different visual languages and techniques, often drawing on motifs from the press, art history, and everyday life to reframe their meanings. Her work has been exhibited at Tate St Ives, the Lyon Biennial, Zachęta National Gallery of Art, and The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and is held in the collections of MoMA and other institutions.
Prem Krishnamurthy
Prem Krishnamurthy is a curator, writer, designer, and educator whose work spans exhibitions, publications, institutions, and experimental forms of cultural production. He founded the exhibition space P! in New York and served as artistic director of FRONT International 2022: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art. In 2015, he won the Cooper Hewitt’s National Design Award for Communications Design. He is the author of P!DF, On Letters, and Past Words.
Liz Magic Laser
Liz Magic Laser is a New York–based artist working across video, performance, and installation. Her projects examine the aesthetics and theatricality of power—tracing how authority is performed across political, corporate, journalistic, and medical systems. Often developed through collaborations with journalists, actors, dancers, political strategists, and medical professionals, her work has been presented at MoMA PS1, the Whitney Museum of American Art, Performa, Centre Pompidou, and the Guggenheim Museum..
Cori Kresge
Cori Kresge is a New York–based dancer, choreographer, poet, teacher, massage therapist, and facilitator. A former member of the Merce Cunningham Repertory Understudy Group and collaborator with numerous artists across dance, performance, film, and visual art, her practice explores movement, language, participatory structures, mysticism, and embodied knowledge.
The Judith Center
The Judith Center is a Los Angeles–based arts organization. The Center produces exhibitions, commissions, talks, workshops, and interdisciplinary programs that invite people from different fields into dialogue around the structural nature of sexism and possibilities for change. The Center was founded and is directed by Kathryn Andrews, an artist and psychotherapist. Andrews’s artwork has been exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the U.S. and internationally.
Linda Vallejo
Linda Vallejo is a Los Angeles–based artist whose five-decade practice spans painting, sculpture, installation, and public art. Her work examines identity, history, race, gender, and the cultural narratives that shape American life. Vallejo’s work is held in numerous public collections, including the Hammer Museum, LACMA, and the Museum of Sonoma County.
Warren Neidich
Warren Neidich is an artist, writer, and theorist whose interdisciplinary practice investigates the relationship between art, neuroscience, politics, and contemporary culture. Through installations, photography, writing, and public projects, he explores how cognition and perception are shaped by social, technological, and economic systems.
Linda Vallejo is a Los Angeles–based artist whose five-decade practice spans painting, sculpture, installation, and public art. Her work examines identity, history, race, gender, and the cultural narratives that shape American life. Vallejo’s work is held in numerous public collections, including the Hammer Museum, LACMA, and the Museum of Sonoma County.
Warren Neidich
Warren Neidich is an artist, writer, and theorist whose interdisciplinary practice investigates the relationship between art, neuroscience, politics, and contemporary culture. Through installations, photography, writing, and public projects, he explores how cognition and perception are shaped by social, technological, and economic systems.
Inside-Out: Standing in a Threshold came into being through invitation, conversation, trust, labor, and support. I am deeply grateful to everyone who entered the work.
Material Realization
Darling Green (Jeremy Johnston · Ben DuVall) · TXT Books · Joerg Lohse
Institutional Life
To Keith Gray and Sonel Breslav at Printed Matter · Cora Fisher and the DOT (Dept of Transformation) Team at Brooklyn Public Library · Kathryn Andrews at The Judith Center
Supporters and Patrons
Frank Moore · Shelly Blake · Frédéric Tcheng · Sarah Riggs and Omar Barrada
and to those who chose to support the work anonymously.
Guidance and Advocacy
With gratitude to Eric Shiner, Bridget Donahue, and Daniel Chew for their generosity with time, knowledge, advice, advocacy, and encouragement; to Steven Bridges for his ongoing conversation around the work and its possible institutional life; and to the friends and advisors who offered practical guidance along the way.
Fiscal Sponsorship
Chelsea Spengemann at Soft Network, for providing a structure through which Inside-Out can receive support and continue moving into the world.
Darling Green (Jeremy Johnston · Ben DuVall) · TXT Books · Joerg Lohse
Institutional Life
To Keith Gray and Sonel Breslav at Printed Matter · Cora Fisher and the DOT (Dept of Transformation) Team at Brooklyn Public Library · Kathryn Andrews at The Judith Center
Supporters and Patrons
Frank Moore · Shelly Blake · Frédéric Tcheng · Sarah Riggs and Omar Barrada
and to those who chose to support the work anonymously.
Guidance and Advocacy
With gratitude to Eric Shiner, Bridget Donahue, and Daniel Chew for their generosity with time, knowledge, advice, advocacy, and encouragement; to Steven Bridges for his ongoing conversation around the work and its possible institutional life; and to the friends and advisors who offered practical guidance along the way.
Fiscal Sponsorship
Chelsea Spengemann at Soft Network, for providing a structure through which Inside-Out can receive support and continue moving into the world.