by Alicia | May 1, 2009 | Art Writing, Artist Essays, News, Writing
Peregrine Honig’s Widow explores our culture of impossible beauty standards and mythic stereotypes. From a drawing of a trucker whore modeling Armani to the artist using herself in re-creations of 19th century cause-of-death wet plate collodion photographs,...
by Alicia | Mar 17, 2009 | Art Writing, Newcity Newspaper, News, Writing
Taxidermy is big business—and high art. A March 6 New York Times article reported taxidermy sightings at this year’s Armory Art Fair, including Carolyn Salas and Adam Parker Smith’s buckhead whose abnormally huge antlers twist into the air like overgrown tree...
by Alicia | Mar 10, 2009 | Curatorial, News, Online, Press, Video as Video: Rewind to Form
This Thursday March 12th at 4:30pm in Classroom 1, critic/curator Alicia Eler (OC ’06) and artist Peregrine Honig will lecture on their recent curatorial project “Video as Video: Rewind to Form,” which opened at Swimming Pool Project Space in Chicago in September...
by Alicia | Dec 8, 2008 | Newcity Newspaper, News, Writing
Problems in video art curation, evolving technologies and copyright laws Omer Fast, “Looking Pretty for God (after G.W.),” 2008 It’s still hard to justify the expenses of technology—and the necessary viewer attention—needed for displaying video art,...
by Alicia | Dec 5, 2008 | Art Writing, Newcity Newspaper, News, Writing
Identity-freezing photographs There’s so much to see in Miami that you either have to create your own lens or look through a camera’s. Photos caught my eye at the art fairs this year, perhaps because in a sea of constantly moving people and new art around every booth...
by Alicia | Nov 22, 2008 | Flavorpill, News, Writing
Read the original Flavorpill review below. Download the PDF here: https://aliciaeler.com/wp-content/uploads/Chicago-Universe.pdf
