Nicholas Krushenick
Nicholas Krushenick. Image courtesy of Tamarind Institute, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Nicholas Krushenick was born in New York in 1929. He began his artistic career at the Art Students League after serving in World War II. Krushenick's early development coincided with the shift away from Abstract Expressionism and towards Pop that occurred in America in the late 1960s, and his use of strong colour and bold black outline in his graphic paintings and prints are indeed indicative of a Pop sensibility.
Farifax and mustard, a colour lithograph completed at Gemini Ltd in 1965, is a typical example of this tendency.
Emilie Owens
Works in the Kenneth E. Tyler Collection
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Fairfax and mustard
1965
Chronology
1929 Born New York, New York, United States of America
1946-48 Serves in US Army
1948-50 Attends Art Student’s League, New York as part of GI Bill
1950-51 Attends Hans Hoffman School, New York
1951-57 Holds a variety of jobs in New York: constructs stage sets, creates department store window displays, works as framer at Museum of Modern Art, manages antique shop
1958-62 Co-founder of Brata Gallery, New York
1962 Solo exhibition, Graham Gallery, New York
1964 Included in exhibition, Post-Painterly Abstraction, organized by Clement Greenberg Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California
1965 Awarded fellowship at Tamarind Lithography Workshop, Los Angeles. Creates edition of Fairfax and mustard, Gemini Ltd, Los Angeles
1966 Included in exhibition, Systemic Painting, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; New Forms and Shapes of Colour, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
1968 Solo exhibition, Nicholas Krushenick, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; designs sets and costumes for Tyrone Guthrie Theater production of Franz Josef Haydn’s comic opera, Man in the Moon, Minneapolis
1969 Artist-in-residence with solo exhibition at Jaffe-Friede Gallery, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
1970 Solo exhibition, University of South Florida, Tampa
1973 Solo exhibition, University of Alabama, Birmingham
1974 Solo exhibition, Portland Center for the Visual Arts, Oregon
1975 Solo exhibition, California State College, San Bernadino
1976 Solo exhibition, State University of New York, Alfred
1977 Solo exhibition, Newport Art Association, Rhode Island
1977-91 Teaches at University of Maryland, College Park
1979 Solo exhibition, Metropolitan Museum of Miami, Florida
1981 Solo exhibition, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut
1988 Solo exhibition, Stamford Museum, Connecticut
1988 Solo exhibition, University of West Florida, Pensacola
1998 Nicholas Krushenick died in New York, New York, United States of America
Barbara Delano © Tyler Graphics Ltd., revised Kate Buckingham, 2007
This chronology provides an overview of selected biographical information, major solo and group exhibitions held within the artist's own lifetime.
Further Reading
NATIONAL GALLERY PUBLICATIONS
- Workshop: The Kenneth Tyler Collection, Jane Kinsman (ed.), 2015
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