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Nicholas Krushenick
1980 Large Pop Art Silkscreen Abstract Op Art Jagged Edge Bright Color Serigraph

1980

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Green, Red, Silver and Black and White. Large Pop Art Silkscreen. Nicholas Krushenick (May 31, 1929 – February 5, 1999) was an American abstract painter whose artistic style straddled the line between Op Art, Pop Art, Abstract Expressionism, Minimalism and Color Field. He was active in the New York art scene in the 1960s and 1970s, before he withdrew and focused his time as a professor at the University of Maryland for almost thirty years until his death in 1999. Initially experimenting with a more Abstract Expressionist inspired style and cut paper collage, Krushenick is more well known for his paintings which use bold Liquitex colors and juxtaposing black lines, which fall under the category of pop abstraction. In fact, he is a singular figure within that style. Born in New York City in 1929, Krushenick dropped out of high school, served in World War II, worked on constructing the Major Deegan Expressway, and then returned to art school, with the help of the GI Bill. He attended the Art Students League of New York (1948–1950) and the Hans Hofmann School of Fine Art (1950–1951). In the early 1950s Krushenick supported himself and his family by designing window displays for department stores and working for the Whitney and Metropolitan museums and the Museum of Modern Art. In 1957, he and his brother, John Krushenick, opened a framing shop on Tenth Street, which quickly turned into an artists' cooperative called Brata Gallery. Artists such as Al Held, Ronald Bladen, Ed Clark, Yayoi Kusama, and George Sugarman exhibited there. In 1962, Krushenick left the gallery and began receiving solo-exhibitions around the world. In the 1960s and 1970s, he was a prominent painter in the New York art scene. However, in his later years, Krushenick taught at the University of Maryland, College Park from 1977 to 1991. He died in New York on February 5, 1999, at age 69. Krushenick was part of a generation emerging at a time when Abstract Expressionism had fallen out of fashion; these artists were trying to distance themselves from this style and create something new. As a result, Krushenick's work in particular straddled the lines of many styles, including: Op Art, Pop Art, Abstract Expressionism, Minimalism, and Color Field. Some of his inspirations were Henri Matisse, J. M. W. Turner, Henri Rousseau, Fernand Leger, Alexander Calder, Roy Lichtenstein, and Claes Oldenburg. The last two, in particular, Krushenick considered the fathers of pop. In 1956, Nicholas Krushenick debuted alongside his brother at Camino Gallery. At this stage, Krushenick's paintings resembled the Abstract Expressionist style considerably, yet already he was starting to poise masses next to each other in something of a "Cubist persuasion." Select Solo Exhibitions 1957 Nicholas Krushenick, Camino Gallery, New York, January 25–February 15 1958 Nicholas Krushenick, Brata Gallery, New York, October 24–November 12 1962 Nicholas Krushenick, Graham Gallery, New York, September 18–October 6 1965 Nicholas Krushenick, Fischbach Gallery, New York, April 6–24 1966 Nicholas Krushenick, Galerie Müller, Stuttgart, May 7–June 30 1967 Galerie Nächst St. Stephan, Vienna Nicholas Krushenick, Galerie Sonnabend, Paris, January Nicholas Krushenick: Paintings, Pace Gallery, New York, March 18–April 15 1968 Nicholas Krushenick, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, January 24–February 25 Nicholas Krushenick, Galerie Renée Ziegler, Zürich, October 19–November 11 1971 Nicholas Krushenick, Galerie Beyeler, Basel, May–June 15 1972 Nicholas Krushenick: New Painting and Collage, Pace Gallery, New York, January 8–February 1973 Galerie Denise Rene: Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf 1999 Nicholas Krushenick: New and Early Paintings, Mitchell Algus Gallery, Nicholas Krushenick: Pop-Abstract Painter, Loyola Hall, Fairfield University, Fairfield, Connecticut, 2001 Nicholas Krushenick: Paintings of the 1980s, Mitchell Algus Gallery, New York, February 10– 2007 Nicholas Krushenick, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, May 4–June 16 2008 Nicholas Krushenick, Galerie Renée Ziegler, Zürich, August 31–October 31 2014 Nicholas Krushenick: Early Paintings, Garth Greenan Gallery, New York 2015 Nicholas Krushenick: Electric Soup, Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College Select Group Exhibitions 1963 New Experiments in Art, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts, March 23–April 28 1963–1964 Annual Exhibition 1963: Contemporary American Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art. Post Painterly Abstraction, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, April 23–June 7; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, July 13–August 16; Art Gallery of Toronto, November 20–December 20 1965 The Twenty-ninth Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., February 26–April 18 1965–1966 1965 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, December 8, 1965–January 30, 1966 1966 Contemporary Art USA, Norfolk Museum of Arts and Sciences, Norfolk, Virginia Systemic Painting, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, September–November Musische Geometrie im Kunstverein Hannover, Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover, Germany, 1966–1967 Vormen van de Kleur, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1967 The 5th International Biennial Exhibition of Prints in Tokyo, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, December 4, 1966–January 22, 1967; National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto 1968 Documenta IV, Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany, June 27–October 6 Art of the ’60s: Selections from Collection of Hanford Yang, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Untitled, 1968, San Francisco Museum of Art, November 11–December 29 1969 Tamarind: Homage to Lithography, Museum of Modern Art, New York, April 29–June 30 The Spirit of the Comics, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1973 Homage à Picasso, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany, 1976 Tenth Street Days: The Co-ops of the 50’s, Amos Eno Gallery, New York, 1980 Art & Dance: Images of the Modern Dialogue, 1890–1980, Institute of Contemporary Art, Select Collections Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia Cleveland Museum of Art Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan Dallas Museum of Art Galerie der Stadt, Stuttgart Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller Empire State Plaza Art Collection, Albany, NY Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, New York Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Los Angeles County Museum of Art Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Sydney Museum of Modern Art, New York Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. Stamford Museum & Nature Center, Stamford, Connecticut Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam Walker Art Center, Minneapolis Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
  • Creator:
    Nicholas Krushenick (1929-1999, American)
  • Creation Year:
    1980
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 31 in (78.74 cm)Width: 40 in (101.6 cm)
  • Medium:
  • Movement & Style:
  • Period:
  • Condition:
    good. minor wear, minor creasing to edges, please see photos.
  • Gallery Location:
    Surfside, FL
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU3827289192
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