by Alicia | Dec 4, 2012 | News, OtherPeoplesPixels, Writing
Artist Sabina Ott is no stranger to the social web. For more than 25 years, she has been investigating the process and act of painting. The Internet and Gertrude Stein’s prose are two of her major influences. “To me, Stein is the prescient literature to the Internet...
by Alicia | Nov 27, 2012 | Chicago Artists Resource, News, Writing
How An Artist Transitioned from Textual to Visual Language Lauren Levato draws bugs. Lots and lots of bugs. Sometimes they stand on their own, quiet in their stillness and repose. Other times they appear inside a woman’s belly; we peer inside of her, privy to...
by Alicia | Nov 27, 2012 | Chicago Artists Resource, News, Writing
On the Importance of a Studio, and How to Afford It Chicago artist Gwen Zabicki is interested in the ways people in urban environments live alone together. In her most recent body of work she explores the idea of a shared urban melancholy. Her work is deeply invested...
by Alicia | Nov 20, 2012 | News, OtherPeoplesPixels, Writing
OPP: We’re excited to bring you something new today to inform and inspire how you use social media as an artist. Arts writer and critic, Alicia Eler, is the author of this series in conversation with artists who use social media to their advantage. We all know...
by Alicia | Nov 13, 2012 | Art Writing, Newcity Newspaper, News, Writing
Anonymous Los Angeles-based street artist HOMO RIOT got on a plane and started roaming the streets of Chicago, pasting stickers of two bearded, bearish men with masks over their eyes kissing onto newspaper stands and streetlight poles everywhere. I came across one in...
by Alicia | Nov 8, 2012 | Art Writing, Newcity Newspaper, News, Writing
Artist Ian J. Whitmore knows “nowhere” quite well. Growing up in Lincoln, Nebraska, where he also completed his undergraduate degree, and then moving to Bloomington, Indiana for an MFA in photography, the Midwesterner can quickly spot the public, commercial landscape...
