by Paul Krainak | Jul 2, 2026 | Blog
Whitney Claflin’s current Milwaukee exhibition “The Shops at Atlas Park” breeds aesthetics with merchandizing at the Green Gallery’s uniquely panoramic space on Farwell St. Her variously sized works ironically named after a mixed outdoor retail park in Queens,...
by Paul Krainak | Jun 19, 2026 | Blog
The Obama Presidential Center (OPC) opening today on its 19-acre southside campus designed by architects Billie Tsien and Todd Williams with landscape by Michael van Valkenburgh is an extraordinary architectural trek that’s gained much deserved attention but...
by Paul Krainak | Jun 1, 2026 | Blog
PK: Michelle, I understand the design and presentation of your work through a reformed neo-Dada and Feminist frame. But it’s differently located in a consciously American and Inland context of class, industry, and hand-made labor with grit and a restless sense of...
by Paul Krainak | May 1, 2026 | Blog
In “Turned,” two artists packed The Green Gallery with optical and technologically interactive bodies of work prompting critical spaces between sculpture, painting and craft. The gallery’s complex trapezoidal floor-plan rejects the ordinary architecture of traditional...
by Paul Krainak | Apr 2, 2026 | Blog
This 2021 quote below from Carmon Colangelo cites a moment in his 20-year survey opening this month at Bruno David Gallery in St. Louis. The show coincides with the final semester of the artist’s 20 years as Dean of The Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts at...
