by Alicia | Mar 10, 2009 | Curatorial, News, Online, Press, Video as Video: Rewind to Form
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...
by Alicia | Sep 21, 2008 | Curatorial, Video as Video: Rewind to Form
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...
by Alicia | Sep 20, 2008 | News, Online, Press, Print, 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...
by Alicia | Sep 19, 2008 | News, Online, Press, Video as Video: Rewind to Form
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...
by Alicia | Sep 12, 2007 | Art Writing, News, Writing
Hitting up galleries on the “season kick-off” night, September 7, was like going to the Cubs home opener—jam-packed with enthusiastic fans who couldn’t wait to get a glimpse of what’s in store. Art students showed up in decorative outfits;...