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...
Sub-Rural #43, Katie Geha at Tandem

Sub-Rural #43, Katie Geha at Tandem

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...
Sub-Rural # 42, Patricia Villalobos Echeverría

Sub-Rural # 42, Patricia Villalobos Echeverría

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....
Sub-Rural # 41, Willie Cole, “Perceptual Engineer”

Sub-Rural # 41, Willie Cole, “Perceptual Engineer”

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,”...