by Alicia | Dec 19, 2012 | News, RAW Vision Magazine, Writing
My essay for Ellen Greene’s solo exhibition, “Invisible Mother’s Milk” at Packer-Schopf Gallery (through December 29) is in the Winter 2012/2013 issue of Raw Vision Magazine, a British print publication dedicated to...
by Alicia | Dec 4, 2012 | News, OtherPeoplesPixels, Writing
Artist Sabina Ott is no stranger to the social web. For more than 25 years, she has been investigating the process and act of painting. The Internet and Gertrude Stein’s prose are two of her major influences. “To me, Stein is the prescient literature to the Internet...
by Alicia | Nov 27, 2012 | Chicago Artists Resource, News, Writing
How An Artist Transitioned from Textual to Visual Language Lauren Levato draws bugs. Lots and lots of bugs. Sometimes they stand on their own, quiet in their stillness and repose. Other times they appear inside a woman’s belly; we peer inside of her, privy to...
by Alicia | Nov 27, 2012 | Chicago Artists Resource, News, Writing
On the Importance of a Studio, and How to Afford It Chicago artist Gwen Zabicki is interested in the ways people in urban environments live alone together. In her most recent body of work she explores the idea of a shared urban melancholy. Her work is deeply invested...
by Alicia | Nov 23, 2012 | Hyperallergic, Queer
CHICAGO — The Great Refusal: Taking on New Queer Aesthetics induces a sort of lonely feel, one that falls closer in line with Lee Edelman’s No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive, which argues that “the efficacy of queerness lies in its very willingness to...
by Alicia | Nov 20, 2012 | News, OtherPeoplesPixels, Writing
OPP: We’re excited to bring you something new today to inform and inspire how you use social media as an artist. Arts writer and critic, Alicia Eler, is the author of this series in conversation with artists who use social media to their advantage. We all know...
