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,”...
Sub-Rural #40, Rebecca Kautz

Sub-Rural #40, Rebecca Kautz

Rebecca Kautz’s solo painting show at Madison’s Art Lit Lab combines an idiosyncratic exploration of personal subjects buried in a palpable vernacularism that seems to be composed by the way images are spoken – a sort of soluble concrete poetry. What’s remarkable is...
Sub-Rural #39, Paul Catanese

Sub-Rural #39, Paul Catanese

“My work as a hybrid media artist results in projects that are expressed through multi-modality.” Paul Catanese employs intricate studio customs and explores a wealth of media platforms. He uses a radically combinative critical practice to uncover psychological and...
Sub-Rural #38, William Villalongo

Sub-Rural #38, William Villalongo

William Villalongo’s current survey at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art titled “Myths and Migrations” is a twenty-year survey of paintings, collages, and mixed media organized by the Grinnell College Museum of Art. Villalongo’s work, which circulates symbols of...
Sub-Rural #37, Do No Harm Month

Sub-Rural #37, Do No Harm Month

“Comin’ in from London, from over the pole Flyin’ in a big airliner Chickens flyin’ everywhere around the plane Could we ever feel much finer?” * Madison, Wisconsin isn’t London but It’s a point in an archipelago of Great Lake...