Curatorial Projects
PAIN TERO FLIGHT – A Curatorial Exploration of Thomas Kinkade w/ Theo Downes-Le Guin @ Upfor Gallery, PDX
Hey everyone! I'm so pleased to share more about my latest project with the delightful Theo Downes-Le Guin. If you're in Portland anytime soon, come to our show! PAIN TERO FLIGHT January 20 – February 27, 2016 First Thursday reception February 4, 6:00 to 8:00pm THE...
Chicago Has Six Young Art Curators You Should Know – Chicago Magazine
Thanks Chicago Magazine and Jason Foumberg for naming me one of the six young curators in Chicago to know! Here's my profile: Alicia Eler Who: She uses the internet and social media to research, organize, and produce exhibitions and essays, on topics like adolescent...
Magic in Rural Southwestern Wisconsin: Meg Leary Sounds Off at ACRE Residency / Art21
In any place that isn’t the otherworldly realm of the ACRE Residency, twelve days doesn’t feel like a long time away from one’s day-to-day life. Launched in 2010 by Nicholas Wylie and Emily Green, ACRE (short for Artists’ Cooperative Residency and Exhibitions) was...
Grant Committee: Critical Fierceness Queer Art Grant
Since its founding in 2005, Chances Dances has sought to create a safe space for all gender expressions by bringing together the varied LGBTIQ communities of Chicago. The creation of the Critical Fierceness grant expands upon this goal by offering a unique opportunity...
Curatorial Board: ACRE Projects & Residency
ACRE (Artists’ Cooperative Residency and Exhibitions) is a volunteer-run non-profit based in Chicago devoted to employing various systems of support for emerging artists and to creating a generative community of cultural producers. ACRE investigates and institutes...
Performance Anxiety Screening & Reception: Gallery 400 on April 7 at 8pm
PERFORMANCE ANXIETY Gallery 400 at University of Illinois at Chicago 400 S. Peoria Wednesday, April 7 8pm Art critic Alicia Eler and video art collector Jefferson Godard present Performance Anxiety, a program of short video works dealing with performances of cultural...
“Performance Anxiety” at Gallery 400 w/ Jefferson Godard
Here's the full write-up about our show on the Gallery 400 blog: http://gallery400.blogspot.com/2010/03/performance-anxiety.html Performance Anxiety Performance Anxiety: Video Program Curated by Alicia Eler and Jefferson Godard Wednesday, April 7, 8 pm Come for...
Film Screening: Short Sighted at the Smart Museum
A video I made with Peregrine Honig, entitled Pink Flowers, Mechanical Rabbit (2009 [click here to view!] was included in Short Sighted at the Smart Museum on December 3, 2009. [event information] Short Sighted presents the mechanical wonder of the kinetoscope–Thomas...
Bad At Sports: CHICAGO CURATORS’ “PERFORMANCE ANXIETY” ON SOUVENIRS FROM THE EARTH TV
Wanna talk about new modes of global curation? Chicago-based arts writer Alicia Eler and video collector Jefferson Godard have teamed up to curatePerformance Anxiety, a program of seven short videos by Chicago and New York City-based artists which can only be seen in...
Response: Art & the Art of Criticism
Response: Art and the Art of Criticism with Carrie Schneider University of Illinois at Chicago’s I-Space Gallery April 24-May 30, 2009 Alicia recently participated in “Response: Art & the Art of Criticism” at I-Space Gallery (April 24-May 31, 2009), a show that...
Video as Video: Rewind to Form
Curated by Alicia Eler and Peregrine Honig "Video as Video: Rewind to Form" explores the medium of video through the use of painting, drawing, photography, sculpture and Internet-based coding languages. The show features work by nine international artists: Rob Carter,...
“Video as Video: Rewind To Form” Lecture and Screening at Oberlin College Art Department
This Thursday March 12th at 4:30pm in Classroom 1, critic/curator Alicia Eler (OC ’06) and artist Peregrine Honig will lecture on their recent curatorial project “Video as Video: Rewind to Form,” which opened at Swimming Pool Project Space in Chicago in September...
Swimming Pool Project Space, Marketing & Copywriting
Swimming Pool Project Space Swimming Pool Project Space was a standby of the Chicago art community from 2008-2011. An artist-run gallery space opened by well-known local artist Liz Nielsen, the Swimming Pool – or “The Pool” as it was affectionately called – hosted...
Newcity Newspaper: Review of “Video as Video: Rewind to Form”
RECOMMENDED If you haven’t been to Albany Park’s new art gallery, Swimming Pool, the current show, “Video as Video: Rewind to Form,” is the perfect excuse for a Saturday outing (Saturday being the only day this independent space is open to the public). The curators...
Flavorpill Chicago: “Video as Video: Rewind to Form”
Swimming Pool Project Space says… Given its title, you might expect this exhibition to reclaim video's fundamental qualities, returning to critic Clement Greenberg's intellectual territory or that of the structural filmmakers of the 1960s. But this international group...
Huffington Post: The Changing Landscape – Artists Take Charge
Liz Nielson is another example of the multifacited, multidirectional artist. Besides making her own art, she works for the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has just opened a gallery with Joshua Kozuh. Named Swimming Pool Project Space, the gallery does...
New Media Lecture Series: Cory Arcangel
New Media Art Lecture Series: Cory Arcangel April 11-15, 2006 Screenings, lectures and workshops with NYC-based computer artist Cory Arcangel (OC 2000) Oberlin College Oberlin, Ohio Oberlin Review feature article