Paul Krainak

Paul Krainak is a painter, critic, and professor emeritus at Bradley University where he served as art department chair for 10 years. He’s a former associate editor and corresponding editor of the New Art Examiner and Artpapers. He’s contributed essays on contemporary art that focus on the aesthetics of place to numerous journals, exhibition catalogues and academic presses. These include the Kemper Museum of Art in St. Louis, The Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University, Indiana University Press, Sculpture Magazine, and Afterimage.

Krainak is the founder and director of the former Inland Visual Studies Center at Bradley University. As of fall 2022 he will be a Madison, Wisconsin, resident.