Paul Krainak is a painter, art writer, and Professor Emeritus in Art at Bradley University. He is a former Associate Editor and Corresponding Editor of the New Art Examiner and Art Papers. Krainak was the Founder and Director of the Inland Visual Studies Center at Bradley University. He’s contributed essays on contemporary art to numerous journals, exhibition catalogues and academic presses, including the Kemper Museum of Art in St. Louis, the Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University, INOVA – University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Indiana University Press, Sculpture Magazine, American Ceramics, and Afterimage.