by Paul Krainak | Dec 4, 2024 | Blog
Applying a dialectic of scale and form to images from familiar, often sensational, mass media outlets, “Robert Longo, The Acceleration of History’ at the Milwaukee Art Museum deflects content to a complicated field of visual studies jurisdictions. The artist...
by Paul Krainak | Nov 1, 2024 | Blog
Tandem Press at the University of Wisconsin, Madison is one of the premier art presses in a nation full of outstanding art presses, with or without academic affiliations. Founded in 1987 by the indefatigable faculty printmaker William Weege, it grew to prominence...
by Paul Krainak | Oct 1, 2024 | Blog
The American Nicaraguan Patricia Villalobos Echeverría resides in Kalamazoo, Michigan. She has a mature multi-disciplinary body of work based on matters of public media, gender perception, the elasticity of collective memory, migration, and the consequences of war....
by Paul Krainak | Aug 31, 2024 | Blog
Willie Cole’s sculpture, much of which consists of thousands of discarded, often obsolete objects, including his famed low-vamp womens’ pumps, expand the concept of Pop collage by a mile deploying the morphology of tribal art and design. His flat works, “scorches,”...
by Paul Krainak | Jul 31, 2024 | Blog
Rebecca Kautz’s solo painting show at Madison’s Art Lit Lab combines an idiosyncratic exploration of personal subjects buried in a palpable vernacularism that seems to be composed by the way images are spoken – a sort of soluble concrete poetry. What’s remarkable is...
