by Paul Krainak | Aug 4, 2021 | Blog
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...
by Paul Krainak | Jul 7, 2021 | Blog
By Paul Krainak Frances Whitehead is a longtime Chicago-based civic-practice artist, working internationally in her hybrid capacity as “embedded artist,” with technologists, designers, city planners, and citizen scientists to sort out pressing cultural, environmental,...
by Paul Krainak | Jun 9, 2021 | Blog
By Paul Krainak The Kohler Art Center in Sheboygan, Wisconsin would be distinguished enough if it had only remained focused on the folk art and craft of regional artists. Wisconsin has a sizable population of visionary artists and crafters and the Center’s attention...
by Paul Krainak | May 3, 2021 | Blog
By Paul Krainak Decades before Pop Art and a subsequent stream of voyeuristic postmodern imagery, Clement Greenberg believed a micro-climate of introspective abstract art and an ill wind of kitsch was a public battleground. He reasoned that the latter quelled...
by Paul Krainak | Mar 26, 2021 | Blog
By Paul Krainak “Sub-rural” extends a column I wrote for a regional journal over the past four years. Titled “Inland Art”, it was an outgrowth of the Inland Visual Studies Center founded at Bradley University in 2008. The center was a cultural and programmatic...
