by Alicia | Aug 23, 2013 | Hyperallergic
CHICAGO — Before centuries of modernization and industry settled in, Gentofte, Denmark, was a simple farming town under the vision of a single lord with 42 serfs. Over the past 200 years, Gentofte has evolved into what is rightly considered a suburb. In the...
by Alicia | Aug 23, 2013 | Hyperallergic
CHICAGO — There’s a 50 square mile area in China between Chendian Town, Chaonan and Gurao Town where most of the brassieres in the world are produced. It is with fascination and awareness of this global market that artist Priscilla Briggs embarked upon her photo...
by Alicia | Aug 22, 2013 | Hyperallergic
CHICAGO — Any reader of comic books knows that accruing a diverse array of volumes is no easy feat. The first four comics on my bookshelves include Allison Bechdel’s 2006 autobiographical “tragicomic” Fun Home, Adrian Tomine’s Shortcomings, about a man named Ben...
by Alicia | Aug 21, 2013 | Hyperallergic
CHICAGO — Somewhere in a Neverland-type realm located outside of an urban center, gender-ambiguous characters roam free, constructing their own sexualities, identities, social rules and families. Far from any sort of utopia, a concept that has been popular in queer...
by Alicia | Aug 19, 2013 | Hyperallergic
CHICAGO — The self-proclaimed title of “urban pop artist” suits Margarita Korol well. As the one-woman artist/president of her creative practice, Korol blatantly straddles the world of commercial, pop, and fine art, and she’s as much at home in being distributed at...
by Alicia | Aug 17, 2013 | Hyperallergic
CHICAGO — The walls were painted pink-and-yellow zigzags, and a cast of characters outfitted in white tuxes and animal heads ignited an abandoned nightclub, turning the space into a carnivalesque, Dada-influenced funhouse without mirrors. This is just one moment from...
