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...
by Paul Krainak | Mar 2, 2026 | Blog
Nathaniel Stern and Sasha Stiles’ “Generation to Generation, Conversing with Kindred Technologies” exhibition in the Kenilworth Gallery at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee outlines a project that technically, philosophically, and socially describes our place...
by Paul Krainak | Jan 30, 2026 | Blog
It’s remarkable that ”Unto Thee,” Theaster Gates’ new show at the Smart Museum is the first significant institutional survey of the artist’s work in Chicago. The artist literally and figuratively unpacked a three-decade project that united a wide swath of...
