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Review: HOMO RIOT/Bert Green Fine Art / Newcity Newspaper

Review: HOMO RIOT/Bert Green Fine Art / Newcity Newspaper

by Alicia | Nov 13, 2012 | Art Writing, Newcity Newspaper, News, Writing

Anonymous Los Angeles-based street artist HOMO RIOT got on a plane and started roaming the streets of Chicago, pasting stickers of two bearded, bearish men with masks over their eyes kissing onto newspaper stands and streetlight poles everywhere. I came across one in...
Portrait of the Artist: Ian J. Whitmore / Newcity Newspaper

Portrait of the Artist: Ian J. Whitmore / Newcity Newspaper

by Alicia | Nov 8, 2012 | Art Writing, Newcity Newspaper, News, Writing

Artist Ian J. Whitmore knows “nowhere” quite well. Growing up in Lincoln, Nebraska, where he also completed his undergraduate degree, and then moving to Bloomington, Indiana for an MFA in photography, the Midwesterner can quickly spot the public, commercial landscape...
Eye Exam: Butter Me Up, Mister Obama / Newcity Newspaper

Eye Exam: Butter Me Up, Mister Obama / Newcity Newspaper

by Alicia | Oct 23, 2012 | Art Writing, Newcity Newspaper, Writing

In the Midwestern land of milk and honey stands a 600-pound cow made of butter. “Delicious” isn’t the best word to describe the manufactured butter beast, but it is a spectacle that keeps visitors returning to the annual Iowa State Fair year after year. A sculptor is...
Four Selections from the Top 50 Chicago Artists: Jeanne Dunning, Dawoud Bey, Doug Ischar & Aay Preston-Myint  / Newcity Newspaper

Four Selections from the Top 50 Chicago Artists: Jeanne Dunning, Dawoud Bey, Doug Ischar & Aay Preston-Myint / Newcity Newspaper

by Alicia | Sep 25, 2012 | Art Writing, Newcity Newspaper, News, Writing

Writer Alicia Eler profiles Chicago artists Dawoud Bey, Jeanne Dunning, Aay Preston-Myint and Doug Ischar for the top 50 list. Number 8: Dawoud Bey One of Dawoud Bey’s earliest photographic memories is a book called “The Movement,” which his family brought home after...
Art News: “A Lesbian Kiss Awakens Sleeping Beauty” / Hyperallergic

Art News: “A Lesbian Kiss Awakens Sleeping Beauty” / Hyperallergic

by Alicia | Sep 7, 2012 | Art Writing, Hyperallergic, News, Writing

In Canadian-Ukranian artist Taras Polataiko’s exhibition Sleeping Beauty at the National Art Museum of Ukraine in Kiev, which continues until September 9, the artist positions himself as a postmodern fairytale mythmaker, a Brothers Grimm of the internet Age. The...
“There Are No Winners, Only Losers” essay for Peregrine Honig

“There Are No Winners, Only Losers” essay for Peregrine Honig

by Alicia | Jan 5, 2012 | Art Writing, Artist Essays, Writing

xoxoo love, loser American culture is obsessed with winning and success, yet it is fixated on losers. On August 10, 2010, in the final episode of Work of Art: The Next Great Artist, the reality television competition for artists, 1.48 million people nationwide watched...
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