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...
Sub-Rural #44, Robert Longo in Milwaukee

Sub-Rural #44, Robert Longo in Milwaukee

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...