Nicholas Krushenick
American, 1929-1999
orn in the Bronx, New York in 1929, Nicholas Krushenick studied painting at the Art Students League of New York 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.
Krushenick first developed his signature “pop abstract” style in the early 1960s. The loose geometries and web-like forms of his early paintings demonstrate his 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. The high-keyed color, formal rigor, and sheer graphic intensity of his paintings set Krushenick apart from his contemporaries. As a result, decades after its creation, Krushenick’s work still appears remarkably fresh.
During the 1960s and 1970s, Krushenick had solo exhibitions at many of the most influential and prestigious galleries, including: Graham Gallery (1958, 1962, 1964, New York), Fischbach Gallery (1965, New York), Galerie Sonnabend (1967, Paris), Galerie Ziegler (1969, Zürich), Galerie Beyeler (1971, Basel), and Pace Gallery (1967, 1969, 1972, New York). During this period, his work also figured prominently in many landmark museum exhibitions, such as Post Painterly Abstraction (1964, Los Angeles County Museum of Art), Vormen van de Kleur (1964, Stedelijk Museum), Systemic Painting (1965, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum), and Documenta 4 (1968, Fredericianum), among others. In 1968, the Walker Art Center mounted a retrospective exhibition of Krushenick’s work. His first European retrospective came four years later, in 1972, at the Kestner-Gesellschaft in Hannover, Germany. In 2015 he had a retrospective at the Tang Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York entitled Nicholas Krushenick: Electric Soup.
Krushenick’s work is featured in the collections of over sixty major museums, including: the Albright-Knox Art Gallery; the Baltimore Museum of Art; the Cleveland Museum of Art; the Dallas Museum of Fine Art; the Empire State Art Collection; the Grey Art Gallery, New York University; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Metropolitan Museum of Art; the Museum of Modern Art; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.; the Stedelijk Museum; the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
(Biography provided by Stone and Press Gallery)
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Over The Rainbow Signed Limited Edition Screen Print 1978
By Nicholas Krushenick
Located in Rochester Hills, MI
Nicholas Krushenick
Over The Rainbow - 1978
Print Type: Screen Print on Somerset paper
Size-Width Size-Height: 27.3'' x 37.5'' inches
Signed Edition Size: Signed in pencil and marked 23/200
Unframed
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H 27.3 in W 37.5 in D 1 in
Greensboro, Pop Screenprint by Nicholas Krushenick
By Nicholas Krushenick
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Nicholas Krushenick
Title: Greensboro
Year: 1979
Medium: Silkscreen, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 200, AP 30
Paper Size: 34 x 26 inches
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Nicholas Krushenick Tail Gate
By Nicholas Krushenick
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Nicholas Krushenick
Title: Tail Gate
Medium: Serigraph in colors on wove paper
Year: 1978
Edition: 100/200
Frame Size: 32 1/2" x 28"
Sheet Size: 31" x 26"
Signed: Hand signed...
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Nicholas Krushenick Over the Top
By Nicholas Krushenick
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Nicholas Krushenick
Title: Over the Top
Medium: Silkscreen
Year: 1980
Edition: 134/200
Sheet Size: 29" x 24"
Frame Size: 33 1/2" x 28 1/4"
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1980 Large Pop Art Silkscreen Abstract Op Art Jagged Edge Bright Color Serigraph
By Nicholas Krushenick
Located in Surfside, FL
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...
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Green Machine, Pop Geometric Silkscreen by Nicholas Krushenick
By Nicholas Krushenick
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Nicholas Krushenick
Title: Green Machine
Year: 1982
Medium: Silkscreen, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 200, AP 30
Image: 24 x 35 inches
Paper Size: 26 x 37 inches
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Goldfinger, Pop Abstract Silkscreen by Krushenick
By Nicholas Krushenick
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Nicholas Krushenick, American (1929 - 1999)
Title: Goldfinger
Year: 1979
Medium: Silkscreen, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 200; AP 30
Paper Size: 40 x 34 inches (...
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Silver Liner
By Nicholas Krushenick
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Nicholas Krushenick
Medium: Screenprint
Title: Silver Liner
Year: 1977
Edition: 103/200
Framed Size: 33 3/4" x 27 3/4"
Sheet Size: 34" x 26"
Signed: Hand signed in pencil
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