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...
by Paul Krainak | Oct 7, 2021 | Blog
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...
