Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, Janet Alexander is a freelance writer and video editor currently living in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Before graduating from Pitzer College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Media Studies, Janet received both the Moving Picture Institute and the Institute of Humane Studies Fellowship awards in promoting the ideals of liberty through media broadcast and journalism. She's put her passion for documentary video into practice at CBS, FOX, MTV, and the Wall Street Journal, while also applying a penchant from interviewing to writing for VIP Magazine, The Claremont Independent, and Unigo.com. Besides contributing to GALO Magazine, Janet writes and edits video for Resource Magazine and Impose Magazine, respectively. She hopes to be able to continue having fun for a living, and eventually write a book, or two. Janet manages to cope with her creative impulses, considering life itself as compulsive viewing, through her own narrative non-fiction blog. Check out some of her writing here: https://janetalexander.contently.com/
Janet Alexander — Author
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GLOBALL: The Art of Connecting
The last time GALO Magazine spoke with Brooklyn artist Oliver Warden, he was between two worlds: the virtual world of video game-based art and the reality of art world skeptics. Now, little more than a year since,...
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Chaos to Couture to Confusion: Punk Comes To the Met
A life-size replica of the famed Manhattan nightclub CBGB bathroom, initiates an immersive effort to transport us back to the antipathetic aesthetic circa. 1975. The Ramones bang and strum on loudspeakers, while...
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‘Figuratively Speaking’ with Sherry Karver at the Kim Foster Gallery
Fittingly enough, New York is the subject of Figuratively Speaking, a new exhibition from Chicago-born, California-based visual artist Sherry Karver, which debuted May 3 at the Kim Foster Gallery located in New...
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Making a Scene: The Brooklyn Artists Ball Honors Its Own
For its third-annual Brooklyn Artists Ball, which took place last Wednesday, The Brooklyn Museum procured a decidedly self-referential theme to celebrate the influence and creativity of Brooklyn artists, who in the...
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Artist of the Week 2/13-2/19: Lalage Snow Gives a Voice to the Faces Behind the War
“Everyone's got a story to tell.” So says Irish born documentary photographer, Lalage Snow. As political as it is personal, Snow’s body of work alludes to traces from her past while giving a voice to militia men... -
Artist of the Week 10/24-10/30: Elene Usdin and Her Visual Language
For as long as the Parisian native Elene Usdin can remember, she’s been an artist. But while such a proclamation might be expected of someone who resides in the city of love, creativity and inspiration, or at the very... -
Artist of the Week 09/05 – 09/11: Oliver Warden Conveys an Analogous Reality through Otherworldly Video Game Art
From out of his studio apartment, located on a mysteriously unmarked street in Bushwick, New York, Oliver Warden displays selected works on his gessoed white walls, an attempt at replicating the walls of a gallery....
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A Night of Glitter: ‘Tragic Glamour’ at Pop International
Nostalgia never looked so loud. For one night only, on Wednesday, July 11, SoHo’s Pop International Galleries exhibited Tragic Glamour: A Photo Exploration of Queen of the Night.
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The Numerous Expressions of Rineke Dijkstra at the Guggenheim
Regardless of how photogenic you may, or may not think you are, according to Rineke Dijkstra, we all have a “photo face.”
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‘Bidder 70’: A Lesson in Civil Disobedience
I first met Beth and George Gage, the husband and wife team of Gage and Gage Productions, in the fall of 2010. They came to my alma mater — Pitzer College in Claremont, California — to screen the trailer...