Sub-Rural, #64 Pope.L

Sub-Rural, #64 Pope.L

  Pope.L’s lengthy and productive career, regrettably cut short in 2023, is catalogued as conceptualist, activist, poet, performer, conjurer, and quasi-ethnographer. The artist was a radical progeny of Fluxus with keen rebukes of institutions, cultural or...
Sub-Rural #63, Chicago Works | Mike Cloud

Sub-Rural #63, Chicago Works | Mike Cloud

A vital part of painting as a medium and practice juggles concerns about what constitutes art history and the public along with questions about a hierarchy in cultural critique, ethnography, craft, and geographic identity. We live in a time where fewer subjects fit...
Sub-Rural #63, Art Lit Lab Community Curation ’26

Sub-Rural #63, Art Lit Lab Community Curation ’26

This is the second summer where the Art Lit Lab (ALL)  fielded a local curatorial team to investigate an informal rapport between local artists of assorted backgrounds, practices, and discourses. ALL’s Community Curation Project, LAB^4 . provided a multiple studio...
Sub-Rural #62, Whitney Claflin at Green Gallery

Sub-Rural #62, Whitney Claflin at Green Gallery

Whitney Claflin’s current Milwaukee exhibition “The Shops at Atlas Park”  breeds aesthetics with merchandizing at the Green Gallery’s uniquely panoramic space on Farwell St. Her variously sized works ironically named after a mixed outdoor retail park in Queens,...
Sub-Rural # 61, Obama Presidential Center

Sub-Rural # 61, Obama Presidential Center

The Obama Presidential Center (OPC) opening today on its 19-acre southside campus designed by architects Billie Tsien and Todd Williams with landscape by Michael van Valkenburgh is an extraordinary architectural trek that’s gained much deserved attention but...