Nicholas Krushenick “Early Paintings”
Garth Greenan Gallery
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Garth Greenan Gallery presents Nicholas Krushenick: Early Paintings, an exhibition of paintings, collages, and drawings. The exhibition is the artist’s first since 2011. Nine of Krushenick’s brilliantly colored, abstract paintings will be on view, as well as a selection of collages and preparatory drawings, many of which have never before been exhibited. The exhibition will open in advance of the artist’s highly anticipated, full-career retrospective, Nicholas Krushenick: Electric Soup (2015, Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College).
The exhibition offers a detailed view of Krushenick’s work from 1961 to 1963 — the period of time during which the artist first developed his signature “pop abstract” style. The loose geometries and web-like forms of works such as Sterling Moss at the Esses (1962), Rousseau Giving Love and Lions (1962), and Turn Back Columbus (1963) demonstrate Krushenick’s deliberate caricature of Abstract Expressionist “drips” or “skeins” into what more closely resemble details from cartoons — like Superman’s hair follicles, as critic Robert Rosenblum once described. A special section of the exhibition will be devoted to what Krushenick considered his first “mature” painting, Untitled (1961). Although small in scale, the artist worked on it intensely, creating dozens of drawings in order to perfect the composition.
Born in The Bronx, New York in 1929, Nicholas Krushenick studied painting at the Art Students League and the Hans Hofmann School of Fine Arts. After completing his training, Krushenick designed window displays and worked in the Framing Department of the Museum of Modern Art. From 1957 to 1962, the artist, along with his brother John, operated the now legendary Brata Gallery in Manhattan’s East Village. Brata displayed the works of many of the foremost artists of the day, including, among others: Ronald Bladen, Ed Clarke, Al Held, Yayoi Kusama, and George Sugarman.
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Schedule
from September 04, 2014 to October 18, 2014
Opening Reception on 2014-09-04 from 18:00 to 20:00