by Alicia | May 12, 2015 | Columns, CRAVE Online, News, Writing
Hello! I’m pleased to announce Crystal Paradise, a new weekly column for LA publication CRAVE Online. It runs every Tuesday from here on out. This is the first column. Stay tuned for more. Art, Identity, And The Digital Gaze From tech panels to Web-themed...
by Alicia | May 11, 2015 | Hyperallergic, News, Writing
LOS ANGELES — There’s nothing funny about art. Writing art criticism is a serious endeavor. But at some point, the performance of professionalism in the art world just started to feel like one big joke, and I began noticing a crossover between the art and comedy...
by Alicia | May 6, 2015 | Artist Essays, Catherine Forster
Artist Catherine Forster’s drawings reflect on the nature of gender binaries through plant-life and audience participation. I’m pleased to present my catalogue essay for her upcoming exhibition ME NOT opening November 2015 at the Rymer Gallery in...
by Alicia | Apr 15, 2015 | Hyperallergic, Writing
LOS ANGELES — Imagine you are trying to get dressed underwater but every time you lift your arms the water you’re wading through pulls them back down. Like a blinded, injured fish you want to sink into the abyss of your tank and just flounder. You can see the...
by Alicia | Mar 20, 2015 | News, The Guardian, Writing
Walking through most American cities can be a desolating experience. Few are made for people like me, the pedestrian, who choose strolling and observing over cruising fast through constructed landscapes. Yet, there’s a perverse pleasure in walking through cities...
by Alicia | Mar 17, 2015 | KCET Los Angeles, News, Writing
Vireo is a new opera composed by Lisa Bielawa on a libretto by Erik Ehn and directed by Charles Otte, featuring 16-year-old soprano Rowen Sabala. A collaborative project of KCET and Cal State Fullerton’s Grand Central Art Center, Vireo is being created expressly...