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Artist: Nicholas Krushenick
Exhibition Title: Nine Paintings
Exhibition Dates: November 17, 2016 – January 7, 2017
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Garth Greenan Gallery is pleased to announce Nicholas Krushenick: Nine Paintings, an exhibition of paintings at 545 West 20th Street. Opening on Thursday, November 17, 2016, the exhibition is the artist’s first since his recent full-career retrospective, Nicholas Krushenick: Electric Soup (2015, Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery). The exhibition will coincide with the release of a new 300-page monograph on the artist, featuring contributions by Harry Cooper and Barry Schwabsky, among others.
The exhibition includes nine signature acrylic on canvas paintings by Krushenick made between 1964 and 1971. During this period, the artist developed a distinct style that straddled the lines between Op, Pop, Abstract Expressionism, Minimalism, and Color Field painting. Juxtaposing broad black lines with flat Liquitex colors, he created bold, energetic abstractions that combined the graphic clarity of Pop with nonfigurative shapes and forms. For Krushenick, this unclassifiable status was ideal, as he once remarked: “They don’t know where to place me. Like I’m out in left field all by myself. And that’s just where I want to stay.”
Born in The Bronx, New York, Nicholas Krushenick (1929–1999) 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 Clark, Al Held, Yayoi Kusama, and George Sugarman.
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