by Alicia | Mar 17, 2016 | KCET Los Angeles, Writing
For years, Los Angeles artist Jenny Yurshansky has asked her mom the same question: When will they go back to Moldova? The small country, wedged between Ukraine and Romania, is part of her family’s story. Yet, she’s never even seen it. Yurshansky’s...
by Alicia | Dec 18, 2015 | KCET Los Angeles, Writing
Catcalling can happen randomly. As a woman, you might start to even expect it. Over time, some women become less phased by it and more internally pissed off. It’s hard to remain neutral and unfeeling when some random guy yells obscenities at you, tells you he...
by Alicia | Oct 8, 2015 | KCET Los Angeles, Writing
Los Angeles-based artist Marc Horowitz isn’t a comedian, but humor is an underlying theme in his wide ranging art. Through all of his hybrid performance art/comedy/social practice/long-form experimental projects, he works in a manner more akin to improv comedy...
by Alicia | Jul 29, 2015 | KCET Los Angeles, News, Writing
Petra Cortright was raised in Santa Barbara, but she grew up on the Internet. The Los Angeles-based artist’s work is often typified as “post-Internet art,” which roughly translates to art that uses the Internet as its medium, source, context and...
by Alicia | Jun 26, 2015 | KCET Los Angeles, News, Writing
In Scott Marvel Cassidy’s paintings, drawings and sculpture, it’s often times impossible to separate reality from a dreamlike state, or to differentiate the manufacture of a domesticity with the actual domestic life. Focused on intersecting themes of...
by Alicia | Jun 12, 2015 | KCET Los Angeles, News, Writing
Artist Matt Siegle wanted to understand the drifters, 19th century historical enthusiasts, and homeless individuals who inhabit the San Gabriel Mountains today, where gold mining was once a thriving industry. What he found didn’t so much complete a narrative as...
