by Alicia | Feb 21, 2016 | CRAVE
Ah, feminism. I first fell for you in college and we’ve been together ever since. You were on my mind when I strolled into Amy Bessone’s show, In the Century of Women, on view through March 5, 2016 at Gavlak Gallery, where viewers witness a variety of feminine...
by Alicia | Feb 20, 2016 | CRAVE
In Bay Of Smokes, an exhibition showing at Various Small Fires in Los Angeles, artist Amy Yao’s visual landscape of semiotics and symbols plays with concepts of environmental contamination. To demonstrate these concepts, she plucks materials and objects from their...
by Alicia | Feb 17, 2016 | CRAVE
When L.A. artist Vanessa Prager paints, she paints hard. She doesn’t make paintings so much as she makes gloopy, blobby, swirling sculptural works out of paint, indulging in extreme messy excess. These are portraits that are more like landscapes – alive with movement,...
by Alicia | Feb 14, 2016 | Press, Radio
Happy Valentine’s Day! Today me and Eve Peyser talked about love, #Tinderization and the nature of dating app connectivity with Toronto radio dude Mark Towhey for NEWSTALK 1010. Here’s the segment! Starts at 1 hour 2 minutes and runs about 10...
by Alicia | Feb 14, 2016 | Op-eds, The Guardian, Writing
Valentine’s Day is an awkward, sensitive holiday whether or not you have a significant other and, perhaps especially, if you are single. To be “without love” on a day designed to celebrate it as loudly and publicly as possible can make even the most secure single...