by Paul Krainak | Mar 8, 2022 | Blog
Contemporary art exists under duress in rural America. The artworld still traffics in an obsolete nature vs. culture dichotomy, not through individual works that explore the hybridity of art language or identity, but in nature as synonymous with rural, (what...
by Paul Krainak | Feb 2, 2022 | Blog
Scott Espeseth’s sedate composition, “Aluminum Storm” embodies the artist’s punning sound-images, ashen palette, and generally understated rendering of his immediate environment. “Storm” depicts the stark metal siding of a neighbor’s unassuming frame house and...
by Paul Krainak | Jan 3, 2022 | Blog, Review
Despite Germany and the United States having similar failings with regard to immigration, race, religion, economic disparity, and creeping nationalism, our country is comparatively young, and our identity is wrapped up with generational risk-taking. Our comparative...
by Paul Krainak | Dec 6, 2021 | Blog
Bruno David moved his gallery from New York City to St. Louis in 2004. In the process he wedded a national and global art conversation with the Midwest and has remained equally attentive to artists who represent the breadth of St. Louis and the region. David...
by Paul Krainak | Nov 9, 2021 | Blog
By Paul Krainak Robert Pogue Harrison’s “Juvenescence: A Cultural History of our Age,” may be a few years old, but it’s prescient. Its cover bears an image of Constantin Brancusi’s 1908 “Head of a Sleeping Infant,” suggesting, along with the title, a culture indulgent...
