Paul Krainak is a painter, art writer, and Professor Emeritus at Bradley University where he was Art Department chair from 2006 to 2016. He has exhibited widely throughout the U.S. He is a former Associate Editor and Corresponding Editor of the New Art Examiner and Art Papers. He is the founder and former Director of the Inland Visual Studies Center at Bradley University. He’s contributed essays on contemporary art to numerous journals, exhibition catalogues and academic presses, including the Kemper Museum of Art in St. Louis, the Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University, INOVA – University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Indiana University Press, Sculpture Magazine, American Ceramics, and Afterimage. He currently writes a monthly blog on inland art and aesthetics for Bad At Sports titled “Sub-rural.” He’s exhibited widely throughout the U.S. including one person shows at Fassbender gallery, Randolph St. Gallery, and RAW Space, in Chicago, the Richman Museum of Art, Mt Vernon, IL, Merwin Gallery at Illinois Wesleyan University, and The Emergency Museum at Rice University. Group exhibitions include the Layton Gallery, Milwaukee, the Islip Art Museum, Semaphore Gallery, New York, NY, Nexus Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, N.A M.E Gallery, and Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago the Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago.