by Alicia | Dec 4, 2015 | CRAVE
The gallery business is a fickle one. How does a gallerist interpret and work with market trends while also focusing on the joy of the art that most excites them, which is usually why they opened galleries in the first place? Gallerist Sarah Gavlak seems to have...
by Alicia | Nov 30, 2015 | CRAVE
The vast array of images in the show The Avant-Garde Won’t Give Up: Cobra and its Legacy on view at Blum & Poe L.A., after the first leg of the show opened in their New York space, remind me of post-war trauma, as seen in post-WWI images of men coming back from...
by Alicia | Nov 29, 2015 | CRAVE
Kate Berlant is a comedian whose work has been described as “surreal,” “not comedy,” and “experimental comedy.” In her very empathic, somewhat “psychic,” and theatrical-without-that-pretentious-edge comedy that’s touring all over the country and especially...
by Alicia | Nov 27, 2015 | CRAVE
In Genevieve Gaignard’s solo show “Us Only” at Shulamit Nazarin, she imagines three distinct character personas, all of which connect to her identity as a high yellow femme woman. She is of mixed race but her identity reads to most people as a “ginger,” a white girl,...
by Alicia | Nov 15, 2015 | CRAVE
The work of performance artist Kristina Wong simultaneously tackles issues of social media obsession, globalization in conversation with personal narrative, anti-imperialist anti-racist travels to Uganda, and what happens when one self-declared Asian-American...
by Alicia | Oct 31, 2015 | CRAVE
Hopscotch, a “mobile opera” experience, feels like the tech-induced insanity that one imagines is life as a Silicon Valley mobile tech bro jacked up on a crazy amount of apps, chats, emails, and constant “ping” sounds, giving him no choice but to spiral into a tunnel...
