by Paul Krainak | Sep 6, 2022 | Blog
Interventions into museum collections, a still-evolving staple of exhibition schedules, often allow close readings of acquisition narratives while they let artists stretch the domain of the curatorial. Amanda McCavour’s exhibition, “Suspended Landscapes” at the...
by Paul Krainak | Aug 15, 2022 | Blog
For decades Susan Snodgrass has been the city’s foremost independent art writer, valued for an acutely perceptive critical method that respects and illuminates both local and global aesthetics. Snodgrass is devoted to alternative models of critical practice and art...
by Paul Krainak | Jul 4, 2022 | Blog
video by C K Rochelle “Aurora” Listing inline Fourth,O’er languid pace of feigned “D”steadfast banner...
by Paul Krainak | Jun 6, 2022 | Blog
Craft is wide open and bringing to bear new outcomes for vernacular traditions and their relationship to current art and popular culture. Some practices have leapfrogged into the middle of contemporaneity. Embroidery, for one, has livened up painting and mixed media...
by Paul Krainak | May 2, 2022 | Blog
Besides being one of Chicago’s most noteworthy and prodigious painters, William Conger is a repository of the city’s history, and a probing aesthetician. His knowledge and implementation of the historic complexity of abstract painting, the particular twists and turns...
