NYAB Event - Steven Krueger "The Waiting Place"

Steven Krueger "The Waiting Place"

Icosahedron Gallery

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Ico Gallery presents “The Waiting Place,” a new exhibition of paintings by the New Jersey-born and Argentina-based artist Steven Krueger. Having spent the last three decades traveling and living abroad, Krueger’s art is multicultural in scope, representing a polyphonic chorus of international sensibilities that have become manifest across his work in a variety of mediums.

Largely self-taught, he briefly studied painting at the ICS School of ART in Pennsylvania and the Art League of Alexandria Virginia. Krueger’s interest in painting piqued during visits to Austrian museums while living in Vienna in 1997, and he found himself drawn to masterpieces where traces of the artist’s painting process remained visible. He began painting a year later and has continued to produce works at a prolific pace throughout subsequent moves to Guatemala, Finland, Washington D.C., India, and Argentina.

In his catalogue essay on the artist, critic Andrew Beckman places Krueger’s art within an aesthetic space influenced by “peripatetic globalism.” His works are not preconceived mandates of a single expression; but rather, passionate debates that pivot around the universal qualities of human existence.

Rife with allusions to Abstract Expressionism, Art Brut, Cubism, and Fauvism, his paintings neither quote nor overturn previous styles but rather funnel their energies into his own translation of human sentiments. Krueger views art as “the skill to be able to document one's emotions” and emphasizes his desire to elicit an emotional response from viewers. The cycle of artistic creation cannot be completed until spectators have internalized and grappled with the personal testimony layered throughout his work.