$7,000

Artwork Description

The free-flowing, organic shapes within Kuruneru’s paintings on raw canvas have a rhythmic, almost musical presence. Despite the fact that they look as though they were done by stencil due to their crisp edges, the forms are unplanned and improvised, and the shapes are personal to his body—how far his arms can reach, the movement of his wrist, the control of his hand. His aqueous solutions of acrylic paint function almost like watercolor, staining the material in precise forms that are visually offset by the negative space of the raw canvas. His soft washes of tonal color are inspired by the paint handling found in traditional Chinese mountain landscape paintings—a nod to his own heritage.