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Alex Jen

Alex Jen is a writer and curator based in Chicago.

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The Absurdly Poignant Poems of Sun Ra

Avatar photo by Alex Jen April 18, 2021April 19, 2021

Sun Ra’s stanzas are riddles against passive reading.

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The Beautiful Peculiarity of Leidy Churchman’s Paintings

Avatar photo by Alex Jen October 2, 2019January 11, 2021

Churchman seems to be painting as a way to better comprehend his subjects; the canvases feel like dedications, striving to embody someone or something’s true nature.

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The Music at the Intersection Between Two Cultures

Avatar photo by Alex Jen July 12, 2019January 11, 2021

The Moon Represents My Heart looks at Chinese American musicians who picked up the culture they lost and re-shaped it into something new.

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Fragmented Sculptures Evoke the Gaps of Memory

Avatar photo by Alex Jen April 24, 2019January 11, 2021

Looking at each of Cayetano Ferrer’s works is like waiting for a photograph to come into focus, or retelling an old story and making up bits for the parts you’ve forgotten.

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The Poetry of Eileen Myles’s Intimate, Imperfect Instagram Photos

Avatar photo by Alex Jen January 8, 2019January 11, 2021

Myles’s photographs don’t feel precious at all, though there is something relentlessly intimate in their flat-footed irreverence.

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The New Menil Drawing Institute Is Perfect for a Medium So Intimate

Avatar photo by Alex Jen November 6, 2018January 11, 2021

The building, which opened this past weekend, appears to mirror the experimental, process-driven practice of drawing.

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Jack Whitten’s Deeply Personal Portraits and Paintings

Avatar photo by Alex Jen September 5, 2018January 11, 2021

Whitten’s paintings pay homage to his influences, including artists and close family. He thought of his works as “gifts” — personal dedications that reveal his subjects’ nuances and edges.

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Awe-Inspiring Portraits of Chicano Men that Resist Typecasting

Avatar photo by Alex Jen July 31, 2018January 11, 2021

Harry Gamboa Jr. started this series in 1991, after hearing an announcement on his car radio that warned: “Be on the lookout for a Chicano male. He is dangerous.”

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LA Artists and Nightlife Personalities Make Garments that Sparkle with Ingenuity

Avatar photo by Alex Jen July 10, 2018January 11, 2021

Rafa Esparza and other local artists have been making garments at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and recently showcased them in a parade in the city’s fashion district.

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Zoe Leonard Transcends Time at the Whitney Museum

Avatar photo by Alex Jen May 7, 2018January 11, 2021

A survey show at the Whitney Museum of American Art asserts ideas about the collapse of time in spaces natural and constructed.

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How the Nebulous Internet Has Influenced Art Since 1989

Avatar photo by Alex Jen April 26, 2018January 11, 2021

A large survey exhibition comprehensively traces the internet’s influence on artistic practice since 1989, uneasily and unexpectedly revealing how it can subsume both the art and its viewing contexts.

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Getting Comfortable with Sexy and Silly Art

Avatar photo by Alex Jen September 27, 2017January 11, 2021

SEX, an exhibition at Chicago’s Lawrence & Clark gallery, challenged me to reckon with the cultural inheritance of my Taiwanese American upbringing.

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