William Krüg

Tilt-A-Whirl, An Allegorical Look at the World, Original Oil Painting, Framed

2021

Many of my paintings are about Chicago - the Chicago I lived in when I began painting, a Chicago that now exists only in my memory. And memory is always a reconstruction. As my lif...

You look at my paintings, that's a slice of life you never saw before. Right now, and for a good number of years, I've been an urban painter. My life, my reality is Chicago. Bow n...

“Gawker” was created as part of the artist’s ‘Nuclear Family’ series, in which she highlights seemingly unremarkable moments of contemporary family life, sometimes offering a glimpse...

My painting is an inquiry. I make images as a way of responding to experiences that are important to me. Experiences that help me to understand why I’m in this world often happens when I am outside in large open spaces. Painted images act as a tool. I respond to the spaces my art suggests. That response is usually non-verbal. I am interested in the experience of non-duality that “getting lost” in big spaces can sometimes produce for me. The paintings have gone through a range of artistic treatments with the recent years seeing a focus on space, light, textures, atmosphere and distance. My landscape paintings are made from memory, not from on-site drawings or photographs. I use memory as a filtering agent to remove non-essential visual elements. When a work is successful, it must have a sense of poetry. There is nothing “new...