by Paul Krainak | Apr 2, 2025 | Blog
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...
by Paul Krainak | Mar 3, 2025 | Blog
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...
by Paul Krainak | Jan 30, 2025 | Blog
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...
by Paul Krainak | Jan 2, 2025 | Blog
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...
by Paul Krainak | Dec 4, 2024 | Blog
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...
