by Alicia | Sep 30, 2008 | Art Writing, Chicago, News, Queer, Time Out Chicago, Writing
As a freelance arts and culture reporter, I’ve written hundreds of stories for local Chicago outlets. As a regular for Time Out Chicago, I covered everything from art and design to sports, theater and kids. Below you’ll see a selection of the stories I...
by Alicia | Sep 21, 2008 | Curatorial, Video as Video: Rewind to Form
Swimming Pool Project Space Swimming Pool Project Space was a standby of the Chicago art community from 2008-2011. An artist-run gallery space opened by well-known local artist Liz Nielsen, the Swimming Pool – or “The Pool” as it was affectionately called – hosted...
by Alicia | Sep 20, 2008 | News, Online, Press, Print, Video as Video: Rewind to Form
RECOMMENDED If you haven’t been to Albany Park’s new art gallery, Swimming Pool, the current show, “Video as Video: Rewind to Form,” is the perfect excuse for a Saturday outing (Saturday being the only day this independent space is open to the public). The curators...
by Alicia | Sep 20, 2008 | News, Online, Press, Video as Video: Rewind to Form
Swimming Pool Project Space says… Given its title, you might expect this exhibition to reclaim video’s fundamental qualities, returning to critic Clement Greenberg’s intellectual territory or that of the structural filmmakers of the 1960s. But this...
by Alicia | Sep 19, 2008 | News, Online, Press, Video as Video: Rewind to Form
Liz Nielson is another example of the multifacited, multidirectional artist. Besides making her own art, she works for the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has just opened a gallery with Joshua Kozuh. Named Swimming Pool Project Space, the gallery does...
