by Alicia | Oct 21, 2013 | Hyperallergic, Selfie Column
Pittsburgh-based artist Francis Crisafio’s ongoing project HOLDUP in the HOOD extends the definition of the selfie, bringing in a directorial component similar to the one seen in Oli Rodriguez’s rendition. For more than a decade, Crisafio has been documenting an...
by Alicia | Oct 17, 2013 | Hyperallergic
Little boys don’t piss in rivers. They pee in picturesque ways and all look like the “Manneken Pis,” a small bronze fountain sculpture of a little boy peeing forever into the fountain’s basin. On view in Brussels since it was erected by Hiëronynus Duseuesnoy the Elder...
by Alicia | Oct 14, 2013 | Hyperallergic
An adolescent girl in her bedroom is a curious thing. If she has her own and doesn’t share it with a swath of siblings, it will become her sanctuary, a place to which she retreats when she wants to get into her own zone and be with herself. Typically, the walls are...
by Alicia | Oct 14, 2013 | Hyperallergic
CHICAGO — Donna Huanca is from the South Side of Chicago, and she hasn’t been back here since she was 15, an adolescent girl. The postcard for her solo exhibition Scrying Threats at Queer Thoughts Gallery is an image of Huanca and 14 other girls, all about the same...
by Alicia | Oct 7, 2013 | Hyperallergic
My story for Hyperallergic about the show Unit 2 (Part 1), a collaboration between Watkins College art students and prisoners on death row in Nashville’s Riverbend Maximum Security Prison was picked up by The Verge and the Nashville Scene. Thanks y’all!...
by Alicia | Oct 7, 2013 | Hyperallergic
CHICAGO — A seven-week road trip isn’t something you just plan overnight. In fact, it’s a long-term project that takes significant strategizing and visits to couchsurfing.com. Once on the road, it becomes clear that not everyone has the stamina for that seemingly...
