by Paul Krainak | Dec 6, 2023 | Blog
One has to appreciate the soft-landing easel painting made after fending off a characterization as an elitist commodity a decade or so ago. The breadth of painting’s identity has benefited from its desirability in both professional and lay contexts, as well as...
by Paul Krainak | Nov 7, 2023 | Blog
As culture becomes more virtual, qualitative, global and for the last few decades fatigued from distancing itself from the epistemological and topographic world of our fathers and it shrinks from higher education offerings, its form and space fall more in sync with...
by Paul Krainak | Oct 2, 2023 | Blog
Christopher Sperandio has been a big fan of cartooning since his youth. He sensed early that comics were a great way to disparage privileged culture, parody the middle class, and speak plainly to conventional publics – which of course he has also had the pleasure to...
by Paul Krainak | Aug 31, 2023 | Blog
The first post-modern movement, where a community of artists made work almost exclusively influenced by their immediate environment, was in Lower Manhattan in the late 70s. Artists engaged the people and places where they lived and worked, rather than just occupying...
by Paul Krainak | Jul 31, 2023 | Blog
Growing numbers of artists have hybrid civic practices, but often their studio production is sidelined by fractious processes of subject research and documentation. It’s a challenge to find spaces for creative expression in contexts more suited for data. Aesthetics...
