by Alicia | Mar 1, 2010 | Art Papers, Art Writing, Writing
Here are a few longer essays I wrote for Art Papers magazine: ART REVIEW: Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba at Betty Rymer Gallery, Chicago, June/July 2010 issue (collaboration with Beatrice Smigasiewicz) PDF: JunNguyenHatsushibaREVIEW ART REVIEW: David Ford at Dolphin Gallery,...
by Alicia | Feb 22, 2010 | Art Writing, News, Online, Press, Writing
Designed to be a fashion magazine aesthetically and functionally, the inside cover features a table of contents and credits: the front cover calligraphy is by Yohan “Scribbles” and the back cover art by Maiko Kuzunishi. Further inside the publication, readers will...
by Alicia | Dec 9, 2009 | Art Writing, News, Writing
Dresses swish as fast as palm tree leaves in Miami, where the entire art world gathers for the annual spending spree. Alicia Eler’s daily blog clues you in on finds at the fairs, from the established Art Basel Miami Beach (the mother of all the Miami art fairs) to...
by Alicia | Jul 10, 2009 | Art Writing
Here is a selection of art criticism that I wrote for Time Out Chicago. For additional clips, please contact me directly. FEATURE: Starving artists (Issue 165) PORTRAIT: Peregrine Honig (Issue 119) REVIEW: “Henbane: Dialectics of the Feminine Sublime”...
by Alicia | May 1, 2009 | Art Writing, Artist Essays, News, Writing
Peregrine Honig’s Widow explores our culture of impossible beauty standards and mythic stereotypes. From a drawing of a trucker whore modeling Armani to the artist using herself in re-creations of 19th century cause-of-death wet plate collodion photographs,...
by Alicia | Mar 17, 2009 | Art Writing, Newcity Newspaper, News, Writing
Taxidermy is big business—and high art. A March 6 New York Times article reported taxidermy sightings at this year’s Armory Art Fair, including Carolyn Salas and Adam Parker Smith’s buckhead whose abnormally huge antlers twist into the air like overgrown tree...