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 | 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 | Aug 30, 2021 | Blog
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...
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 Visualist Chicago | Apr 9, 2021 | Blog
1. Seven Openings April 9 – May 26, 2021 062: 1029 W 35th St By Limited Time Engagement (Kate Conlon and Boyang Hou) 2. Corran Shrimpton: Surface Tension April 10, 1:30-4:30PM Lillstreet Art Center: 4401 N Ravenswood Avee 3. Suzanna Zak: Flesh of...
