Alicia Eler is the Arts & Culture Content Manager for ChicagoNow, a network of blogs sponsored by the Chicago Tribune. Details coming soon!
She is a published art critic whose work has appeared on Artforum.com, and in Time Out Chicago magazine, Newcity Newspaper, Flavorpill Chicago, the Chicago Artists' Newspaper. Her review of Paul Chan's solo exhibition MY LAWS ARE MY WHORES at the Renaissance Society will appear in the next issue of Art Papers magazine. Alicia's other writings can be found on Logo/MTV's 365Gay.com and Nextbook.org, and in Curve magazine and the Chicago Sun-Times's online city guide.
Alicia was recently selected to participate in "Response: Art & the Art of Criticism" at I-Space Gallery (April 24-May 31, 2009), a show that examines the role of the art critic today, and was part of a panel discussion on that same topic at Art Chicago 2009. Check out the show's recent press from Newcity Newspaper, Bad at Sports and ArtSlant.