This collection gathers over 50 art reviews and catalog essays written by Matt Gonzalez over the past seventeen years, along with an eclectic assortment of other art-related writings. Totaling over 100,000 words, the book contains a wide range of articles about abstract and figurative painters as varied as Terry St. John, Andrew Schoultz, Chelsea Wong, Gustavo Ramos Rivera, Alex Kanevsky, Emilio Villalba, Hilary Pecis, David Ligare, Emily Fromm, Yarrow Slaps, Ann Gale, Terry Powers, Rebecca Kaufman, and Bill Scott, among many others. In addition to exhibition reviews and artist monographs, included three historical essays: an article about the Firehaus Group of Stockton, California painters who were active from 1958-1962; an essay about Paul Wonner’s “femme au coq” paintings of the 1950s; and an article about Eva Hesse and a paper collage she made in 1959, while a student at Yale. Additionally, the book contains a lengthy biography of contemporary realist artist Guy Diehl; an essay about a painting of an accordion player from the 1930s by Harry Bowden; and brief reflections on Vincent Van Gogh’s 1888 painting, “the Painter On the Road to Tarascon,” which is believed to have been destroyed during WWII. The collection includes a 2019 opinion editorial urging the San Francisco Board of Education to refrain from destroying murals depicting the life of George Washington at a local high school; an introduction to a book pairing found photos with poetry by contemporary poet Tamsin Smith, which discusses the history of vernacular snapshot photography; and, a critical essay on the theme of art and law.