by Alicia | Sep 27, 2012 | Artist Essays, News, Writing
“Invisible Mother’s Milk” Essay Ellen Greene’s oeuvre is a cacophony of symbols. It is birthed from the artist’s visions, old school tattoo flash turned feminine power symbols, countless pairs of womens’ hand gloves and “Invisible Mother”...
by Alicia | Sep 25, 2012 | Art Writing, Newcity Newspaper, News, Writing
Writer Alicia Eler profiles Chicago artists Dawoud Bey, Jeanne Dunning, Aay Preston-Myint and Doug Ischar for the top 50 list. Number 8: Dawoud Bey One of Dawoud Bey’s earliest photographic memories is a book called “The Movement,” which his family brought home after...
by Alicia | Sep 15, 2012 | Artist Essays, Great Refusal, News, Writing
Interpreting Progressive Rituals of a New Queer Aesthetics Queer time follows its own rules, building around location, movement and identification. Adulthood, responsibility and other aspects of the “mature” self as defined by a normative time do not exist as such in...
by Alicia | Sep 7, 2012 | Art Writing, Hyperallergic, News, Writing
In Canadian-Ukranian artist Taras Polataiko’s exhibition Sleeping Beauty at the National Art Museum of Ukraine in Kiev, which continues until September 9, the artist positions himself as a postmodern fairytale mythmaker, a Brothers Grimm of the internet Age. The...
by Alicia | Aug 29, 2012 | Gapers Block, Journalism, News, Writing
Adam Rust and Skye Enyeart-Rust live for adventure. Whereas a more practical business owner will tell you they opened their shop because they saw a market need, this couple did it for the thrill. For the kill, you might even say. “We were on a belated honeymoon...
by Alicia | Jul 9, 2012 | Artist Essays
RAW Visions Magazine: Ellen Greene catalogue exhibition essay featured in the Winter 2012/2013 issue of the prestigious British Outsider Art magazine (2013) Catalogue Exhibition Essay: Commissioned to write an essay for Ellen Greene’s solo exhibition,...
