by Alicia | Sep 30, 2015 | Art21, Editing, Writing
When I was twelve years old, I remember seeing it: my first smiley face. It was gigantic and bright yellow, hanging on the exterior brick wall of a car dealership, located on a busy street in Evanston, Illinois, a suburb just north of Chicago. I hated that smiley...
by Alicia | Sep 29, 2015 | CRAVE
Sometimes when I feel unsure of what to do next, I go and sit on my porch and look at the house of one particular neighbor across the street. I don’t know who he is, but sometimes I see him roll up in his maroon Honda Accord at the end of a long workday, when the sun...
by Alicia | Sep 29, 2015 | CRAVE
It’s suspicious to name a show “XX,” give no explanation other than “it’s a show about eight emerging Los Angeles artists,” and leave it at that. “XX” very obviously refers to the female chromosome, however, and while all the artists in this show happened to be...
by Alicia | Sep 10, 2015 | CRAVE
One of artist Tofer Chin’s favorite art memories involves passing notes under a glass door at the Hammer Museum with Barry McGee. “One night around midnight, I was coming home from a late night class I had at Otis and I saw Barry McGee painting through the window at...
by Alicia | Sep 1, 2015 | CRAVE Online
My 75-year-old dad and I drove a 14-year-old gold Mercury Sable station wagon from Chicago to Los Angeles. In its teenage-length car lifetime, it racked up only 80,000 miles. Dad gifted it to me instead of the car dealership that offered him a mere $1,300. Some time...
