by Alicia | Jan 16, 2013 | Chicago Artists Resource, News, Writing
Two Chicagoans Win the 2012 Andy Warhol Arts Writers Grant By Alicia Eler, CAR Visual Arts Researcher It’s almost Christmas in Chicago, and for members of the visual art community this means only two things: More-hipster-than-thou ugly Christmas sweater parties,...
by Alicia | Jan 14, 2013 | Artforum.com, News, Writing
Dutes Miller’s queer utopia is a romp through Adam and Steve’s Garden of Eden. “In the Garden” presents the gallery-as-landscape peppered with clusters of oddly sexualized finger-fungi outgrowths harvesting on patches of fake grass, blotched-out images of...
by Alicia | Jan 12, 2013 | Hyperallergic, Queer
CHICAGO — Edie Fake is a radical punk queer feminist activist. He is currently “at large” in Chicago. Before that, he was driving around the country in a yellow school bus doing the gay performance “Fingers.” At the opening of his solo exhibition Memory Palaces at...
by Alicia | Jan 11, 2013 | News, OtherPeoplesPixels, Writing
Portland-based artist Julia Barbee wants to know what you smell like. Or, at least what type of scent you would select based on your ecommerce profile or a Craigslist ad that you post. Barbee wanders into that strange strip of creative space between fine art and high...
by Alicia | Jan 1, 2013 | Artist Essays, News, Writing
Peregrine Honig LACED Gallery 210 at the University of Missouri–St. Louis January 24–March 23, 2013 “Lace is the fabric of ceremony: virgins and whores, brides and saints, pastries and mourners, drug dealers and corsetry. From a conventional trim around the edges to...
by Alicia | Dec 21, 2012 | News, OtherPeoplesPixels, Writing
Jake Myers is visible on and offline as an artist and in the artist-run project space scene through The Octagon Gallery, a space that he runs out of his home. It’s not a stretch to say that Jake Myers is everywhere. In his artwork, Myers seeks to deconstruct the...
