Select Reviews
The Earth Beneath Our Feet: A Review of “Captured Earth” at MoCP
Susan Aurinko, June 2024
“In the project space, an installation by Antonia Contro with sound design by Lou Mallozzi stacks lighted photographic boxes on a simple table while the voice of an Italian groundskeeper and excerpts from Ovid’s 'Metamorphoses' fill the darkness of the room…”
60wrd/min COVID Edition: Correspondence
Lori Waxman, Newcity, April 2021
“Dancing about architecture never struck me as a bad idea. Some days it makes more sense than writing about painting. Something similar occurred when artist Antonia Contro texted a photo of a collage to her friends, violinist Clara Lyon and cellist Hannah Collins, last March…”
2021 Poetry for the Rest of Us
Karla Strand, Ms. Magazine, April 2021
“Theorem noted as one of the 'most exciting and necessary collections published late last year and forthcoming throughout 2021'…”
Antonia Contro and Elizabeth Bradfield’s Theorem
Gabrielle Bates, Brooklyn Rail, April 2021
“The words are spare, surrounded by white space, and the artwork works in tandem with the text to build a world that highlights both aloneness and interdependence…”
Theorem
Jessica Johnson, The Diagram, April 2021
“In Theorem, Contro's drawings and paintings place forms in relation to each other, in tension or correspondence or conversation. Some have unexpected shadows that read as more substantial than the bodies that cast them…”
Theorem, Art and Poetry: A Collaboration by Elizabeth Bradfield and Antonia Contro
S. Nicole Lane, The Reader, February 2021
“Theorem is not what you may expect from a book of poems. The long text is a push-pull relationship between writer and artist. The reader is immediately thrown into the conversation between two artists, separated by distance…”
Publications
Theorem. Antonia Contro and Elizabeth Bradfield.
2020. Trade edition, published by Poetry Northwest Editions
Available through Poetry Northwest, local bookstores, Bookshop.org, and Amazon.
Theorem. Antonia Contro and Elizabeth Bradfield.
2019. Fine art edition of 30, published by Candor Arts, Chicago, IL, available through artist.
Tempus Fugit: Antonia Contro.
2012. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society Museum.
Available through artist.
Closed/Open: Antonia Contro.
2007. Chicago: The Newberry Library.
Winner, Chicago Design Archive permanent collection, 2007, Society for Typographic Art.
$40 US hardcover; available through artist.
Descry: Antonia Contro and Maurizio Pellegrin (exhibition catalogue).
Egan, Natasha. 2001. Chicago: The Museum of Contemporary Photography Columbia College.
$20 US hardcover; available through Museum of Contemporary Photography and artist.
The Traveler: Antonia Contro Maurizio Pellegrin (exhibition catalogue).
Brunetti, John. 1999. Chicago: Carrie Secrist Gallery.
Available through artist.