Sub-rural #9: Bruno David Gallery

Sub-rural #9: Bruno David Gallery

  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...
Sub-rural #8: Human Versus Ape

Sub-rural #8: Human Versus Ape

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...
Sub-rural #7: Regretting Space

Sub-rural #7: Regretting Space

By Paul Krainak Mid-century urban planing in Chicago wasn’t the first to sidestep the needs of underserved demographics or grow steadily more tunneled and monocular. Suffering a kind of moral decompression, it clung to a host of formalist influenced fabrication...
Sub-rural # 6 Kendra Paitz Interview

Sub-rural # 6 Kendra Paitz Interview

By Paul Krainak Kendra Paitz has worked at University Galleries at Illinois State University since 2003, beginning as curatorial intern, graduate assistant, curator, curator of exhibitions, senior curator, and as of 2018, director and chief curator. Colleagues have...
Sub-rural #5 Jean-Jacques Lebel Book Review

Sub-rural #5 Jean-Jacques Lebel Book Review

  By Paul Krainak Laurel Jean Fredrickson’s biographical narrative and analysis of artist/writer/provocateur Jean-Jacques Lebel leaves few stones unturned in an account of the surprisingly underrecognized, yet pivotal, French artist from the 1960s. Lebel was a...