by Paul Krainak | May 1, 2025 | Blog
Art language and its framing is an asymmetric consolidation between principal hemispheric archives and their constituent artists and crafters. Place introduces alternative possibilities for visual fluency and it sanctions regional myths, schedules, and texts. Official...
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...