by Alicia | Oct 30, 2012 | Newcity Newspaper, News, Writing
RECOMMENDED As a child growing up in London, Steve McQueen—not the deceased film star, but the contemporary film artist—says that seeing the 1981 Irish hunger strike on television was one of those “impressionable moments,” the kind that carries with you into...
by Alicia | Oct 26, 2012 | Artforum.com, News, Writing
Gilad Ratman ASPECT RATIO 119 N Peoria #3D September 21–October 26 In Israeli artist Gilad Ratman’s five-minute, single-channel video The Days of the Family of the Bell, 2012, ten shaking bodies morph into a variety of temporary organic formations. Through this work,...
by Alicia | Oct 26, 2012 | Chicago Artists Resource, News, Writing
How I Got Back to My Real Passion It was only after the third month of volunteering at an after-school photography class that I had my “Aha!” art moment. I was helping teens curate a show of their self-portraits into a local art space in gritty downtown Springfield,...
by Alicia | Oct 24, 2012 | Hyperallergic
CHICAGO — Walking down an urban Chicago street on a quiet Sunday afternoon, I noticed a gathering of greenery nestled in the crack of a sidewalk jutting up against a cement wall. These small moments of nature poking through the urban landscape reveal themselves when...
by Alicia | Oct 23, 2012 | Art Writing, Newcity Newspaper, Writing
In the Midwestern land of milk and honey stands a 600-pound cow made of butter. “Delicious” isn’t the best word to describe the manufactured butter beast, but it is a spectacle that keeps visitors returning to the annual Iowa State Fair year after year. A sculptor is...
