Sub-Rural #35, Monsters Redux

Sub-Rural #35, Monsters Redux

It’s no secret that the east coast art economy attracts more industry affiliates than it can support. Subsequently thousands artists become dispersed in differently-sized communities with their own subjects, traditions, and patronage each year. The ideal place for...
Sub-Rural # 34, 2023 Distanced

Sub-Rural # 34, 2023 Distanced

As curatorial trends power themselves into into the Janus stage of 2024 I remember how much new art was once about finding justifications for change and building a coherent narrative out of real life – if possible folding oneself into, or talking back to, a...
Sub-Rural # 33, 50 Paintings

Sub-Rural # 33, 50 Paintings

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...
Sub-Rural # 32, Parceled Pastoral

Sub-Rural # 32, Parceled Pastoral

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...
Sub-Rural # 31, Christopher Sperandio

Sub-Rural # 31, Christopher Sperandio

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...