Sub-Rural # 31, Christopher Sperandio

Sub-Rural # 31, Christopher Sperandio

Christopher Sperandio has been a big fan of cartooning since his youth. He sensed early that comics were a great way to disparage privileged culture, parody the middle class, and speak plainly to conventional publics – which of course he has also had the pleasure to...
Sub-Rural # 30 Alan W. Moore Collection

Sub-Rural # 30 Alan W. Moore Collection

The first post-modern movement, where a community of artists made work almost exclusively influenced by their immediate environment, was in Lower Manhattan in the late 70s. Artists engaged the people and places where they lived and worked, rather than just occupying...
Sub-Rural #29, Pamela Longobardi

Sub-Rural #29, Pamela Longobardi

Growing numbers of artists have hybrid civic practices, but often their studio production is sidelined by fractious processes of subject research and documentation. It’s a challenge to find spaces for creative expression in contexts more suited for data. Aesthetics...
Sub-Rural #28, Dennis Kowalski

Sub-Rural #28, Dennis Kowalski

Dennis Kowalski was a lynchpin in the emergence of  Chicago from a sheltered conversation on neo-vernacularism and a debate about public sculpture in the 70’ and  80’s. While the city was also a principal exhibition center for printmakers from the Midwest’s best art...
Sub-rural #27, Gary Justis

Sub-rural #27, Gary Justis

In the middle of Gary Justis’ deep dive into luminescent creature portraiture and wraithlike abstraction the artist made a side trip with a series of electric botanical pictures that are timely and time-defiant. Consisting entirely of floral images his latest photo...