Ragona discusses Dufresne’s rigorous investigations into how bodies and objects work together symbolically, politically, and aesthetically to forge critical discourses around race, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, and national/international identities.

Ragona’s book, Readymade Sound: Andy Warhol’s Recording Aesthetics, is forthcoming from University of California Press. Her essays and reviews have appeared in October, Frieze, Art Papers, and numerous edited collections. Ragona has curated exhibitions and served as a curatorial consultant at various venues throughout the United States, including the Mattress Factory Contemporary Art Museum (Pittsburgh), the Miller Gallery (Pittsburgh), PPOW Gallery (New York), and the Museum of Modern Art (New York).

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