by Alicia | Nov 16, 2012 | Hyperallergic, Queer
CHICAGO — In the United States, the idea of a rural gay community may bring to mind snapshots from the 2006 documentary Small Town Gay Bar, which captures the goings-on of two gay bars in the rural Deep South. Historically, the gay bar has been a community gathering...
by Alicia | Nov 13, 2012 | Art Writing, Newcity Newspaper, News, Writing
Anonymous Los Angeles-based street artist HOMO RIOT got on a plane and started roaming the streets of Chicago, pasting stickers of two bearded, bearish men with masks over their eyes kissing onto newspaper stands and streetlight poles everywhere. I came across one in...
by Alicia | Nov 8, 2012 | Art Writing, Newcity Newspaper, News, Writing
Artist Ian J. Whitmore knows “nowhere” quite well. Growing up in Lincoln, Nebraska, where he also completed his undergraduate degree, and then moving to Bloomington, Indiana for an MFA in photography, the Midwesterner can quickly spot the public, commercial landscape...
by Alicia | Nov 6, 2012 | Hyperallergic, Queer
CHICAGO — Curator Danny Orendorff’s 19-artist exhibition All Good Things Become Wild and Free at Carthage College’s H.F. Johnson Gallery of Art located in Kenosha, Wisconsin, is a textually rich, difficult-to-describe arrangement. It is a forest plucked from the...
by Alicia | Nov 6, 2012 | Chicago Artists Resource, News, Writing
On Balancing Studio Time and Part-Time Teaching Chicago-based, Virginia-located artist Kate Hampel uses sculptural objects to investigate unvoiced traumas implicit in our social constructs. Through her material-based practice, she seeks to unravel the underlying...
by Alicia | Oct 30, 2012 | Newcity Newspaper, News, Writing
RECOMMENDED As a child growing up in London, Steve McQueen—not the deceased film star, but the contemporary film artist—says that seeing the 1981 Irish hunger strike on television was one of those “impressionable moments,” the kind that carries with you into...
