Alicia Eler

Articles by Alicia Eler

Nikita Gale: Place is the Space is the Place

Nikita Gale: Place is the Space is the Place

by Alicia Eler | Sep 8, 2016

Alicia Eler introduces the work of Los Angeles-based conceptual artist Nikita Gale, whose MFA thesis exhibition explored her relationship to her car as both image and object.

Letter from the Editor

Letter from the Editor: Alicia Eler

by Alicia Eler | Sep 8, 2015

Letter from the Editor

Letter from the Editor: Alicia Eler

by Alicia Eler | Sep 8, 2015

When I was twelve years old, I remember seeing it: my first smiley face. It was gigantic and bright yellow, hanging on the exterior brick wall of a car dealership, …

The Chosen Ones

by Alicia Eler | Jun 17, 2015

The Chosen Ones

by Alicia Eler | Jun 17, 2015

We are born with family, and we find our chosen family. Often whom we select overshadows our biology. Not always, but sometimes. It’s a balance. Peregrine Honig and Arrington de Dionyso …

Letter from the Editor

Letter from the Editor, Alicia Eler

by Alicia Eler | May 6, 2015

Letter from the Editor

Letter from the Editor, Alicia Eler

by Alicia Eler | May 6, 2015

One’s experience of family can be joyous, painful, bizarre, revelatory, and intimate. To describe it with any single word wouldn’t do it justice. Like a parade, it’s a cacophony of …

Asher Hartman’s Ritualistic Marathons

by Alicia Eler | Feb 11, 2015

Asher Hartman’s Ritualistic Marathons

by Alicia Eler | Feb 11, 2015

For twenty years, the Los Angeles–based artist and performer Asher Hartman has created spaces that foster deeply psychic intuition and allow audiences to create as a group.

Emergency Response

by Alicia Eler | Dec 9, 2013

Emergency Response

by Alicia Eler | Dec 9, 2013

Alicia Eler speaks with artists Phong Bui and Pinar Yoldas about their individual responses to environmental disasters.

Magic in Rural Southwestern Wisconsin: Meg Leary Sounds Off at ACRE Residency

by Alicia Eler | Feb 27, 2013

Magic in Rural Southwestern Wisconsin: Meg Leary Sounds Off at ACRE Residency

by Alicia Eler | Feb 27, 2013

Alicia Eler completes her blogging residency by interviewing two-time ACRE resident Meg Leary who “explores the corporeal body of the diva and performer.”

New Bonds and Studio Space Lead to Creative Leaps: Stacia Yeapanis on Chicago’s BOLT Residency

by Alicia Eler | Feb 25, 2013

New Bonds and Studio Space Lead to Creative Leaps: Stacia Yeapanis on Chicago’s BOLT Residency

by Alicia Eler | Feb 25, 2013

For the penultimate post in her series on artist residencies, Alicia Eler chats with Stacia Yeapanis about a yearlong residency close to home.

Carrie Schneider Adds a Finnish Touch

by Alicia Eler | Feb 22, 2013

Carrie Schneider Adds a Finnish Touch

by Alicia Eler | Feb 22, 2013

Alicia Eler talks to former Fulbright fellow Carrie Schneider about her time in Finland and affinity to artists from the region.

An Earthquake Strikes Aspen Mays’s Starless Fulbright Fellowship to Chile

by Alicia Eler | Feb 20, 2013

An Earthquake Strikes Aspen Mays’s Starless Fulbright Fellowship to Chile

by Alicia Eler | Feb 20, 2013

Alicia Eler profiles artist and former Fulbright fellow Aspen Mays who traveled to the astronomy capital of the world to make new work.

From Performance Artist to Object Maker: How Reality Television Changed Young Sun Han’s Practice

by Alicia Eler | Feb 15, 2013

From Performance Artist to Object Maker: How Reality Television Changed Young Sun Han’s Practice

by Alicia Eler | Feb 15, 2013

Alicia Eler profiles Season 2 “Work of Art” contestant Young Sun Han.

France is for Phonies: Julie Lequin Isolated in Paris

by Alicia Eler | Feb 12, 2013

France is for Phonies: Julie Lequin Isolated in Paris

by Alicia Eler | Feb 12, 2013

Alicia Eler profiles artist Julie Lequin whose residency in Paris turned out to be a “jail-made-out-of-gold.”

Christopher Meerdo Experiences the Icelandic Landscape Through the Body of a Decomposing Sperm Whale

by Alicia Eler | Feb 8, 2013

Christopher Meerdo Experiences the Icelandic Landscape Through the Body of a Decomposing Sperm Whale

by Alicia Eler | Feb 8, 2013

How did a three-month residency in Iceland and a dead whale change the work of Chicago–based artist Christopher Meerdo? Art21’s blogger-in-residence has the story.