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...
by Paul Krainak | Jun 2, 2025 | Blog
Debra Kerr, Director of Chicago’s newly christened “Intuit Art Museum,” contends enthusiastically that “art can be made anywhere by anyone.” If so, it raises a question about criteria for collecting and exhibiting. Surely there are formal patterns and content...
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...
