Nicholas Krushenick: Electric Soup : The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY

7 Februar - 16 August 2015

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Nicholas Krushenick (1929–1999) combined witty Pop sensibilities with a myriad of artistic inspirations to create dynamic, playful paintings. Juxtaposing broad black lines with bold, flat Liquitex colors, Krushenick devised hard-edged abstractions that fill his canvases from corner to corner. Born in the Bronx, Krushenick was a prominent figure on the New York art scene throughout the 1960s and early 1970s. Using the surrounding influences of this vibrant scene as a catalyst, he developed a distinct style that straddled the lines between Op, Pop, Abstract Expressionism, Minimalism, and Color Field painting. For Krushenick, this unclassifiable status was ideal, as he explained: “They don’t really know where to place me. Like I’m out in Left field all by myself. And that’s just where I want to stay.”