Artist Essays
TO BE BAD IS NOT TO BE GOOD: KATYA GROKHOVSKY’S PERFORMANCE ART
From ARTSLANT, by Alicia Eler, March 5, 2018: TO BE BAD IS NOT TO BE GOOD: KATYA GROKHOVSKY’S PERFORMANCE ART BY ALICIA ELER This essay is published on the occasion of the ArtSlant Prize IX Winners Exhibition at SPRING/BREAK Art Show, March 6–12, 2018. Katya...
“The Great American Mini-Golf Game” for L.A.’s Arroyo Seco Garden Golf Classic
Hey everyone! I wrote this essay for The Arroyo Seco Garden Golf Classic, an art exhibition as a mini-golf course on Los Angeles' East Side. The concept is curated by Katie Bode. Check this out and enjoy! The Great American Mini-Golf Game By Alicia Eler My first visit...
Catalogue Essay for artist Catherine Forster
Artist Catherine Forster's drawings reflect on the nature of gender binaries through plant-life and audience participation. I'm pleased to present my catalogue essay for her upcoming exhibition ME NOT opening November 2015 at the Rymer Gallery in Nashville, Tennessee....
“There Are Mirrors in Paradise” essay for artist Minna Gilligan
I'm so pleased to share the essay that I wrote for up-and-coming artist, Australian-based Minna Gilligan solo exhibition Feel Flows. Minna contacted me after reading The Teen-Girl Tumblr Aesthetic* essay, and asked if I would write a piece for her show...
Essay for Kathy Halper’s Exhibition “TMI (Too Much Information)”
TMI (Too Much Information) Kathy Halper Packer Schopf Gallery May 24 – July 6 2013 It is that moment at the school prom when the hot football player flicks off the camera before he gets wasted, and then falls between his high school sweetheart’s legs for the first...
Catalogue Essay for Peregrine Honig’s Solo Exhibition LACED at gallery 210
Peregrine Honig LACED Gallery 210 at the University of Missouri–St. Louis January 24–March 23, 2013 “Lace is the fabric of ceremony: virgins and whores, brides and saints, pastries and mourners, drug dealers and corsetry. From a conventional trim around the edges to...
Catalogue Essay for Artist Ellen Greene’s Solo Exhibition “Invisible Mother’s Milk”
"Invisible Mother's Milk" Essay Ellen Greene’s oeuvre is a cacophony of symbols. It is birthed from the artist’s visions, old school tattoo flash turned feminine power symbols, countless pairs of womens’ hand gloves and “Invisible Mother” Victorian photographs....
Exhibition Essay for “The Great Refusal: Taking on New Queer Aesthetics”
Interpreting Progressive Rituals of a New Queer Aesthetics Queer time follows its own rules, building around location, movement and identification. Adulthood, responsibility and other aspects of the “mature” self as defined by a normative time do not exist as such in...
Ellen Greene
RAW Visions Magazine: Ellen Greene catalogue exhibition essay featured in the Winter 2012/2013 issue of the prestigious British Outsider Art magazine (2013) Catalogue Exhibition Essay: Commissioned to write an essay for Ellen Greene's solo exhibition, "Invisible...
Peregrine Honig
Essay: The Child is (Un)dead: Taxidermy Art as Resurrected Victorian Post-Mortem Photography for the OtherPeoplesPixels Art Critics Series (2013) Feature Article: Traveling with Peregrine Honig's American-Argentinian Twin Boys for Art21 (2013) Catalogue Exhibition...
“There Are No Winners, Only Losers” essay for Peregrine Honig
xoxoo love, loser American culture is obsessed with winning and success, yet it is fixated on losers. On August 10, 2010, in the final episode of Work of Art: The Next Great Artist, the reality television competition for artists, 1.48 million people nationwide watched...
Letter to Latham Zearfoss for TRUST ME: SELECTED WORKS BY LATHAM ZEARFOSS
I had the honor and pleasure of writing a letter to Latham Zearfoss for his upcoming show Selected Works By Latham Zearfoss this Saturday, September 4 at 7 & 9pm at the Nightengale. Facebook Invite for "Trust Me: Selected Works by Latham Zearfoss" Here's the...
Response: Art & the Art of Criticism
Response: Art and the Art of Criticism with Carrie Schneider University of Illinois at Chicago’s I-Space Gallery April 24-May 30, 2009 Alicia recently participated in “Response: Art & the Art of Criticism” at I-Space Gallery (April 24-May 31, 2009), a show that...
Essay for Peregrine Honig’s WIDOW Magazine
Peregrine Honig's Widow explores our culture of impossible beauty standards and mythic stereotypes. From a drawing of a trucker whore modeling Armani to the artist using herself in re-creations of 19th century cause-of-death wet plate collodion photographs, Honig...