by Alicia | May 24, 2013 | Hyperallergic
Somewhere in Los Angeles, a movie is being filmed, an actor is speaking words from memory, and a person is hunched over a screen carefully editing moving images using the green screen, a post-production special effects technique that layers on a background that...
by Alicia | May 17, 2013 | Editing, News, OtherPeoplesPixels, OtherPeoplesPixels Art Critics Series - Managing Editor, Writing
We are pleased to announce The OPP ART CRITICS SERIES, a new collaboration with OtherPeoplesPixels. In the spirit of continuing to explore/explode Mr. Walter Benjamin’s idea of the “aura,” artist-run website portfolio service OtherPeoplesPixels is...
by Alicia | May 16, 2013 | Hyperallergic, Writing
CHICAGO — What does it mean, bodily, physically, emotionally, mentally, and perhaps spiritually, to be what Simone de Beauvoir deemed “the second sex,” to be a woman and, moreover, to be a mother? These are questions that Chelsea Knight explores in her latest video...
by Alicia | May 15, 2013 | Editing, News, OtherPeoplesPixels, OtherPeoplesPixels Art Critics Series - Managing Editor, Writing
Slipping the fur skin of a dead animal over a perfectly crafted taxidermy form produces a visual illusion of life, much in the tradition of a trompe l’oeil painting. In traditional taxidermy terms, the relationship between man and animal is that of a hunter conquering...
by Alicia | May 15, 2013 | Artforum.com, News, Writing
Abigail DeVille ICEBERG PROJECTS 7714 N Sheridan Road April 13–June 1, 2013 If “X” marks the spot, and three Xs mean “poison, do not drink,” the seven Xs that make up the title of Abigail DeVille’s exhibition suggest a marking of double the poison, plus one drop for...
