by Alicia | Sep 20, 2008 | News, Online, Press, Print, Video as Video: Rewind to Form
RECOMMENDED If you haven’t been to Albany Park’s new art gallery, Swimming Pool, the current show, “Video as Video: Rewind to Form,” is the perfect excuse for a Saturday outing (Saturday being the only day this independent space is open to the public). The curators...
by Alicia | Sep 20, 2008 | News, Online, Press, Video as Video: Rewind to Form
Swimming Pool Project Space says… Given its title, you might expect this exhibition to reclaim video’s fundamental qualities, returning to critic Clement Greenberg’s intellectual territory or that of the structural filmmakers of the 1960s. But this...
by Alicia | Sep 19, 2008 | News, Online, Press, Video as Video: Rewind to Form
Liz Nielson is another example of the multifacited, multidirectional artist. Besides making her own art, she works for the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has just opened a gallery with Joshua Kozuh. Named Swimming Pool Project Space, the gallery does...
by Alicia | Aug 30, 2008 | Art Writing, News, Writing
Please contact Chicago Artists’ Coalition directly if you would like copies of these reviews. Thank you! ART REVIEW: Sadie Harmon at Around the Coyote (July/August 2008) ART REVIEW: Patrick Welch at gescheidle (July/August 2008) BOOK REVIEW: Sophie Calle’s...
by Alicia | Sep 12, 2007 | Art Writing, News, Writing
Hitting up galleries on the “season kick-off” night, September 7, was like going to the Cubs home opener—jam-packed with enthusiastic fans who couldn’t wait to get a glimpse of what’s in store. Art students showed up in decorative outfits;...
by Alicia | Jun 7, 2007 | Art Writing, News, Writing
While standing in line at the grocery store, we can’t help flipping through the glossy, photo-filled pages of People and Cosmopolitan and gushing over the personal lives of America’s rich, famous and rail-thin supermodels and celebrities. But what if one of those...
