Sub-Rural #28, Dennis Kowalski

Sub-Rural #28, Dennis Kowalski

Dennis Kowalski was a lynchpin in the emergence of  Chicago from a sheltered conversation on neo-vernacularism and a debate about public sculpture in the 70’ and  80’s. While the city was also a principal exhibition center for printmakers from the Midwest’s best art...
Sub-rural #27, Gary Justis

Sub-rural #27, Gary Justis

In the middle of Gary Justis’ deep dive into luminescent creature portraiture and wraithlike abstraction the artist made a side trip with a series of electric botanical pictures that are timely and time-defiant. Consisting entirely of floral images his latest photo...
Sub-rural #26, Mark Holmes

Sub-rural #26, Mark Holmes

The last exhibition I saw of Mark Holmes sculpture was in 2017 at the McClain County Art Center in Bloomington, Illinois. He had just finished a number of works that were radically different than the wooden vector configurations he had mastered over the last decade....
Sub-rural #25, Teresa Audet at Art Lit Lab

Sub-rural #25, Teresa Audet at Art Lit Lab

Teresa Audet’s work is framed by meditative acts of skilled labor required in functional building. She merges them with fragments of ordinary speech and translates those into more abstract and performative aesthetics, investing objects with the pleasure of their...
Sub-rural #24, Carmon Colangelo

Sub-rural #24, Carmon Colangelo

Carmon Colangelo condenses, overlaps, and de-composes versions of painting and printmaking’s abstract plotlines, ones evocative of natural and artificial environments. He randomizes graphic sequences inherent to each medium and uses a kind of graphic subterfuge to...