by Alicia | Oct 9, 2014 | Hyperallergic, News, Writing
LOS ANGELES — There is a new mutant form emerging, pushing its way past the thin layer that separates the interior and exterior world. In Young Joon Kwak’s exhibition at Commonwealth & Council, Mother Spill, the artist’s body overtakes her mind, erupting into the...
by Alicia | Sep 19, 2014 | About, News, Writing
Alicia Eler Writer-in-Residence September 15 – October 10, 2014 Adjunct Positions is pleased to host our first Writer in Residence, Alicia Eler. For this three-week appointment, Alicia will focus on the editing process as it relates to Los Angeles. Alicia is an...
by Alicia | Sep 16, 2014 | Hyperallergic, News, Writing
LOS ANGELES — It took a while for me to actually sit down and stop flipping through the channels and start leafing through Sara Cwynar’s gorgeous book, The Kitsch Encyclopedia. Published by Blonde Art Books, a project of Brooklyn-based curator/publisher Sonel...
by Alicia | Sep 12, 2014 | KCET Los Angeles, News, Writing
Somewhere, somebody is looking for you. They are waiting at a café on Sunset Boulevard, gazing at the screen of their smartphone, anticipating the tiny ding of a bell that lets them know a message is waiting. They are using Miranda July’s new iOS app Somebody,...
by Alicia | Sep 12, 2014 | Hyperallergic, News, Writing
LOS ANGELES — The name Andy Warhol is synonymous with Pop art, a movement often written off as apolitical and shallow in its engagement with American culture. Reflections of this assumption are all contained in Little Red Book #296, an album of 18 images that...
by Alicia | Sep 9, 2014 | Hyperallergic, News, Writing
LOS ANGELES — Laura Parnes’s four-disk video series Blood and Guts in Hollywoodexposes the idealized teenage dream for what it is: A boring, vapid fantasy of “love” that is marketed and sold to an audience of young dreamers searching for their soulmate in the...