by Alicia | Sep 29, 2015 | CRAVE
It’s suspicious to name a show “XX,” give no explanation other than “it’s a show about eight emerging Los Angeles artists,” and leave it at that. “XX” very obviously refers to the female chromosome, however, and while all the artists in this show happened to be...
by Alicia | Sep 10, 2015 | CRAVE
One of artist Tofer Chin’s favorite art memories involves passing notes under a glass door at the Hammer Museum with Barry McGee. “One night around midnight, I was coming home from a late night class I had at Otis and I saw Barry McGee painting through the window at...
by Alicia | Jul 28, 2015 | News, Writing
My roommate David is the kind of guy who becomes Tumblr famous. Not because he tries to do anything awesome, fancy, flashy or even relevant. He’s just cool, and he makes cool art without trying. He has a sense of humor that he inherited from his mom — it’s super dry,...
by Alicia | Jun 26, 2015 | KCET Los Angeles, News, Writing
In Scott Marvel Cassidy’s paintings, drawings and sculpture, it’s often times impossible to separate reality from a dreamlike state, or to differentiate the manufacture of a domesticity with the actual domestic life. Focused on intersecting themes of...
by Alicia | Jun 25, 2015 | CRAVE Online, News, Writing
I messaged her on a Sunday morning. We’d matched the previous day, and I was curious to get a chat going — I actually felt motivated to try and physically meet someone off Tinder. She wrote back, addressing me by my first name instead of a more generic “girl” or...