by Alicia | Dec 8, 2012 | Hyperallergic
CHICAGO — The 2014 Whitney Biennial won’t be like every biennial before it. The always anticipated art world event will partly be a response to the Occupy movement’s call to end the Whitney Biennial, which charged that the major exhibition was just another art world...
by Alicia | Dec 4, 2012 | News, OtherPeoplesPixels, Writing
Artist Sabina Ott is no stranger to the social web. For more than 25 years, she has been investigating the process and act of painting. The Internet and Gertrude Stein’s prose are two of her major influences. “To me, Stein is the prescient literature to the Internet...
by Alicia | Nov 27, 2012 | Chicago Artists Resource, News, Writing
How An Artist Transitioned from Textual to Visual Language Lauren Levato draws bugs. Lots and lots of bugs. Sometimes they stand on their own, quiet in their stillness and repose. Other times they appear inside a woman’s belly; we peer inside of her, privy to...
by Alicia | Nov 27, 2012 | Hyperallergic
CHICAGO — Irena Knezevic’s exhibition Night of the World: Flatworks, Multiples and Music Programs embodies a heavy-handedness that could only come from the mind of a Serbian artist living in America post-Yugoslav Wars. The exhibition takes its inspiration not from a...
by Alicia | Nov 27, 2012 | Hyperallergic
Woohoo! I’m pleased to announced that I am an official Chicago correspondent for NYC-based art blog hyperallergic. If you have a Chicago show that you think I should write about, email me at alicia@hyperallergic.com. Hyperallergic is an online publication that...