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American
Born: The Bronx
['Pop Abstraction', 'Op Art', 'Minimalism', 'Color Field']
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As John Perreault observed, despite the “hard black, coloring-book lines,” Krushenick’s work possessed an “emotionally organic” sensibility, executed with “cool precision” and “great gusto.” His use of candy-cane stripes—bold, diagonal bands of color—became a defining motif, adding a dynamic energy to his compositions. Corinne Robins described these paintings as evoking “the buzz of an IBM machine making crazy computations.” Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Krushenick’s canvases became increasingly busy, yet his colors grew quieter, favoring razor-blade-like shapes over softer forms.