by Alicia | Dec 28, 2012 | Hyperallergic, News
CHICAGO — Let’s get one thing straight, East and West Coasters: Chicago is not just that city of corrupt politicians, huge gusts of wind, lake effect snow, too much beer, deep-dish pizza, da Bears, the forever-losing Cubs, the Renzo Piano Modern Wing at the Art...
by Alicia | Dec 27, 2012 | Hyperallergic
CHICAGO — Artist Paul Perkins sees the problems created by capitalism. But, instead of providing subtle critique or some perceptive angle or even a conversation starter, he regurgitates what we already know. Perkins’s exhibition at Chicago’s Peanut Gallery attempts to...
by Alicia | Dec 21, 2012 | News, OtherPeoplesPixels, Writing
Jake Myers is visible on and offline as an artist and in the artist-run project space scene through The Octagon Gallery, a space that he runs out of his home. It’s not a stretch to say that Jake Myers is everywhere. In his artwork, Myers seeks to deconstruct the...
by Alicia | Dec 19, 2012 | News, RAW Vision Magazine, Writing
My essay for Ellen Greene’s solo exhibition, “Invisible Mother’s Milk” at Packer-Schopf Gallery (through December 29) is in the Winter 2012/2013 issue of Raw Vision Magazine, a British print publication dedicated to...
by Alicia | Dec 11, 2012 | Hyperallergic
KANSAS CITY, MO — If Chairman Mao were actually a monkey with prison tattoos, and if Alphonso Taft didn’t have that bump on the left side of his forehead, artists Katie Parker and Guy Michael Davis wouldn’t have had as much fun playing with form in their whimsical...
