Sub-Rural #49, Caroline Kent

Sub-Rural #49, Caroline Kent

Art language and its framing is an asymmetric consolidation between principal hemispheric archives and their constituent artists and crafters. Place introduces alternative possibilities for visual fluency and it sanctions regional myths, schedules, and texts. Official...
Sub-Rural #48, Craig Drennen at The Suburban

Sub-Rural #48, Craig Drennen at The Suburban

Craig Drennen modifies critical modern paint protocol with some serious extracurricular counter-encryption at “The Suburban” in Milwaukee. He composes fresh content for the stylistic offspring of 20th century painting by tapping his memory and our collective history...
Sub-Rural #47 Dieter Roth at the MCA

Sub-Rural #47 Dieter Roth at the MCA

The Museum of Contemporary Art is currently exhibiting Dieter Roth’s “Balabild 5” in the McCormick Tribune Gallery. The assemblage/installation is a remarkable example of radical midcentury anti-aesthetics by one of the century’s phenomenal Neo-Dada polymaths, tat...
Sub-Rural #46, Guy Whitney, 1949 – 2025

Sub-Rural #46, Guy Whitney, 1949 – 2025

Guy Whitney, artist, School of the Art Institute graduate, founding member of N.A.M.E. gallery, skillful abstractionist, curator, and art handler passed away last week. Whitney was a graduate student at an opportune time in the  SAIC’s  history when the painting...
Sub-Rural #45, Petah Coyne at the Chazen

Sub-Rural #45, Petah Coyne at the Chazen

Petah Coyne is a well-recognized, well-vetted, well-travelled, and well-deserved darling of art critics and curators. An example of her thirst for fabricating radically poignant, sometimes agonizing, often spellbinding neo-natural phenomena just closed in the...