Aaron Krach
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Aaron Krach is an American film critic, journalist, writer and artist currently living in New York City.[1]
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[edit] Background
Aaron Krach was born in Ionia, Michigan on February 15, 1972. He grew up in Alhambra, California, and graduated from Alhambra High School. He attended the University of California San Diego in La Jolla, CA, graduating with a B.A. in Visual Arts in 1994. Aaron Krach moved to New York City in 1995. He now lives on Manhattan's lower east side.[2][3]
[edit] Career
[edit] Journalist
Krach has written for Time Out New York, Out magazine, InStyle, Oui, The independent film & video monthly, Indie Wire, HX, The Villager, a former editor of Empire Magazine,[4] arts editor of Gay City News, and was a former editor of Empire in New York City, and was a senior editor at Cargo,[3][5][6] which work was lengthily quoted in San Diego Union Tribune.[7] He was an editor at BravoTV.com, and affiliated sites OUTzoneTV.com and BrilliantButCancelled.com.[3] He was the features editor at House Beautiful, a Hearst publication, until August 2010. He is currently an MFA candidate at SUNY Purchase.[8]
[edit] Author
Krach's debut novel Half-Life[2] was published to critical acclaim[9] by Alyson Books in 2004.[10] The novel was nominated for a Violet Quill Award and was among the 2004 Lambda Literary Award finalists.[11][12] Of Half-Life, Reed Business Information wrote "Gay readers will relish the attention lavished on love's growing pains and the smart dialogue between Adam and his high school buddy".[10] His second book, 100 New York Mysteries, was published in 2006.[13]
[edit] Nominations
- 2004, nominated for Lambda Literary Award for Half-Life[11]
- 2004, nominated for a Violet Quill Award for Half-Life[11][12]
[edit] Artist
His work has been exhibited in Olympia, Washington, New York City, St. Petersburg, Florida, and Copenhagen, Denmark. In 2006, his solo exhibition titled "100 New York Mysteries" was presented at DCKT Contemporary in Chelsea, New York.[14] In 2007, new photographs and sculpture have been exhibited at 3rd Ward in Greenpoint, Jack The Pelican Presents in Brooklyn, Gallery 312 Online in Nova Scotia, Canada, and Massachusetts's College of Liberal Arts. In 2009, "Longer Periods of Happiness," appeared at DCKT in Manhattan.[15]
[edit] Curator
In October 2009, he curated the exhibition, "Artists Who Use Text To Say Nice Things".[16] Artists featured include: Alex Da Corte, Carl Ferrero, Dana Frankfort, Incidental, Chris Johanson, Cary Leibowitz, Gillian MacLeod, Mark Mahosky, Heath Nash, Kate O'Connor, Jack Pierson, Megan Plunkett, Franklin Preston, Trevor Reese, Alyce Santoro, Sighn, Mickey Smith, Charlie Welch, and Shawn Wolfe.[17]
January, 2011, he curated the exhibition "Soon-Yi Purchase" at 206 Rivington Gallery, NYC. Artists include: Courtney Childress,[18] Margaret Rizzio, Glen Wonsettler, Jonathon Price, Bradford Smith, Jen Dawson, Alex Branch, and Aaron Krach.
[edit] Recognition
Of Krach's work in an art show in January 2009, Christopher Muther of Boston Globe wrote "Balancing the seriousness of Burtonwood and Holmes's political tees is the work of New York artist Aaron Krach, whose art plays with the familiar."[19]
[edit] References
- ^ staff (August 28, 2005). "Aaron Krach - L.A. Paris, New York Interview". Ohlala Magazine. http://www.ohlalaparis.com/ohlalaparis/2005/08/aaron_krach_la_.html. Retrieved 2009-10-28.
- ^ a b Riordan, Kevin (May 27, 2004). "Interview with Michigan born Aaron Krach". Between The Lines. http://www.pridesource.com/article.html?article=7974. Retrieved 2009-10-28.
- ^ a b c Shapiro, Alex. "Interview with Aaron Krach". Absolute Write. http://www.absolutewrite.com/freelance_writing/aaron_krach.htm. Retrieved 2009-10-28.
- ^ Abbe, Elfriede Martha (2003). The Writer's Handbook 2004 (68, illustrated ed.). Watson-Guptill. pp. 392. ISBN 0-87116-200-8. OCLC 9780871162007. http://books.google.com/books?id=vJvdG9C_QkwC&pg=PA392&dq=%22Aaron+Krach%22&lr=&ei=DvDnSsmmCZLUkwSi8PjhCw#v=onepage&q=%22Aaron%20Krach%22&f=false.
- ^ Krach, Aaron (2000). The independent film & video monthly. 23. Foundation for Independent Video and Film. http://books.google.com/books?id=MOFUAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Aaron+Krach%22&dq=%22Aaron+Krach%22&ei=1O7nStCiEYWIkgTJ9Z2yDA. Retrieved October 28, 2009.
- ^ "Half Life by Aaron Krach". Powells Books. http://www.powells.com/biblio/17-9781555838546-0. Retrieved 2009-10-28.
- ^ Brown, Suzanne S.. "The time appears right for five o'clock shadows". New York Times (San Diego Union Tribune). http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20040328/news_1c28stubble.html. Retrieved 2009-10-28.
- ^ http://www.purchasemfa.com/Artists.html
- ^ "Unconventional coming-of-age". Lambda Book Report. http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-1393415/Unconventional-coming-of-age-Fiction.html. Retrieved 2009-10-26.
- ^ a b Krach, Aaron (2004). Half-life: a novel. Alyson Books. ISBN 1-55583-854-5. OCLC 9781555838546. http://books.google.com/books?id=70RjwKj-dIUC&dq=Aaron+Krach,+Half-Life&ei=Ew7mSr-WBYGEkgSVt7j_Cw. Retrieved October 26, 2009.
- ^ a b c "Books to watch out for". Books To Watch Out For. http://www.btwof.com/enews_extras/Images14LES/14LES_BookList.html. Retrieved 2009-10-26.
- ^ a b "2004 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARDS RECIPIENTS AND FINALISTS". Lambda Literary Foundation. http://www.lambdaliterary.org/awards/previous_winners/paw_2004_2006.html. Retrieved 2009-10-26.[dead link]
- ^ Krach, Aaron (2006). 100 New York Mysteries. Lulu Press. ISBN 1-4116-9581-X. OCLC 9781411695818. http://books.google.com/books?id=VtSqEB0CxZcC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Aaron+Krach&ei=ClTmSpuVHoLklQTU_cWhDA#v=onepage&q=&f=false.
- ^ "Aaron Krach, 100 New York Mysteries". DCKT Contemporary. http://www.dcktcontemporary.com/exhibition/view/546. Retrieved 2009-10-26.
- ^ "Aaron Krach, Longer Periods of Happiness 2009". DCKT Contemporary. http://www.dcktcontemporary.com/exhibition/view/1621. Retrieved 2009-10-26.
- ^ "Artists Who Use Text To Say Nice Things". One Art World. http://oneartworld.com/206+Rivington+Street/Artists+Who+Use+Text+to+Say+Nice+Things.html#. Retrieved 2009-10-26.
- ^ "Artists Who Use Text To Say Nice Things". Fleisher-Ollman Gallery.. http://www.fleisher-ollmangallery.com/news.php. Retrieved 2009-10-27.
- ^ http://childresscourtney.squarespace.com/sculpture/new-work-20102011/
- ^ Muther, Christopher (January 29, 2009). "For these artists, T-shirts are their canvas". Boston Globe. http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/fashion/articles/2009/01/29/for_these_artists_t_shirts_are_their_canvas/. Retrieved 2009-10-28.
