by Paul Krainak | Aug 31, 2023 | Blog
The first post-modern movement, where a community of artists made work almost exclusively influenced by their immediate environment, was in Lower Manhattan in the late 70s. Artists engaged the people and places where they lived and worked, rather than just occupying...
by Paul Krainak | Jul 31, 2023 | Blog
Growing numbers of artists have hybrid civic practices, but often their studio production is sidelined by fractious processes of subject research and documentation. It’s a challenge to find spaces for creative expression in contexts more suited for data. Aesthetics...
by Paul Krainak | Jul 1, 2023 | Blog
Dennis Kowalski was a lynchpin in the emergence of Chicago from a sheltered conversation on neo-vernacularism and a debate about public sculpture in the 70’ and 80’s. While the city was also a principal exhibition center for printmakers from the Midwest’s best art...
by Paul Krainak | Jun 4, 2023 | Blog
In the middle of Gary Justis’ deep dive into luminescent creature portraiture and wraithlike abstraction the artist made a side trip with a series of electric botanical pictures that are timely and time-defiant. Consisting entirely of floral images his latest photo...
by Paul Krainak | May 2, 2023 | Blog
The last exhibition I saw of Mark Holmes sculpture was in 2017 at the McClain County Art Center in Bloomington, Illinois. He had just finished a number of works that were radically different than the wooden vector configurations he had mastered over the last decade....
