by Paul Krainak | Aug 30, 2025 | Blog
Barbara Ciurej and Lindsay Lochman have been collaborating on visual culture for more than 40 years from their studios in Chicago and Milwaukee. Recognized originally for their dauntless photographic critiques of the artworld’s male-centered authority, they have...
by Paul Krainak | Aug 2, 2025 | Blog
Madison’s Arts + Literature Laboartory’s “LAB^4 project” invited Madison-area artists and community members to create two summers of programming and exhibitions. The current exhibitions were organized by six community members who stepped...
by Paul Krainak | Jul 13, 2025 | Blog
This is my second mid-month mini-blog, an opportunity to cover supplementary art events lying outside the largely Chicago and Great Lakes focus of “Sub-rural.” Selection, however, is still determined by inland artists or issues. Here is “Sub-Rural.5 #2” or just “Point...
by Paul Krainak | Jul 1, 2025 | Blog
R&D is a project space directed by Abby Johnson and Austin Swearengin, artists/curators devoted to experimental art, performance, and installations in a sub-urban context. While my writing bridges cultural contexts within and without the too stringent boundaries...
by Paul Krainak | Jun 15, 2025 | Blog
Milwaukee artists and entrepreneurs Shane McAdams and Shane Walsh began planning last week’s Door County Contemporary Art Fair some four years ago while teaching at the Peninsula School of Art, the eventual site of the fair. McAdams recalled, “We ran it by the...
