by Alicia | Mar 12, 2014 | News, Online, Press
CLOSING TALK WITH ALICIA ELER Self(ie) Portraits Upfor Gallery, Portland March 1, 2014 at 11:30am pst Alicia Eler will discuss the emerging grey area between consumer selfies and artist self-portraits in a lecture and talk-back. Mimosas and light refreshments will be...
by Alicia | Mar 11, 2014 | News, Online, Press
This holiday season, ARTINFO Canada asked me to be a part of the art critics edition of their holiday guide. What assists me in my writing practice? Here’s what I told them: Chicago writer Alicia Eler wants nothing more than to smell sweet things as she sets pen...
by Alicia | Feb 19, 2014 | Hyperallergic, News, Online, Press, Writing
Professor Ann Collins Johns at the University of Texas at Austin was just as peeved as many people were about President Barack Obama’s knock on art history majors. So she did what any self-assured art historian would do and wrote a letter to Obama on January 31,...
by Alicia | Nov 25, 2013 | Hyperallergic, Online, Press, Selfie Column
CHICAGO — The selfie is an aesthetic with radical potential for bringing visibility to people and bodies that are othered. This week we present to you a few instances of empowerment that we caught via the #feministselfie hashtag on Twitter, which began in response to...
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by Alicia | Nov 25, 2013 | Hyperallergic, Press
CHICAGO — Paul D’Amato’s large-scale photographs in his exhibition We Shall at the DePaul Art Museum offer a glimpse into the lives of ordinary people and urban landscapes on Chicago’s West Side. Operating in a similar mode to photographer Dawoud Bey, whose work...
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by Alicia | Nov 10, 2013 | News, Press, TV
I was caught on camera at the Coffee Studio, my favorite coffeeshop in the entire Chicagoland area! Here’s the link just in case: http://190north.com/video?id=9015225
