White Horse (Waiting for Marina) 2016

Alfred Freddy Krupa made this painting, White Horse (Waiting for Marina), with what looks like quick strokes of paint on canvas. The color palette is super simple: a bold red background with the horse and trees rendered in white. It's as if Krupa is thinking out loud, isn't it? The physicality of the paint is pretty cool here. The white paint seems almost scrubbed onto the canvas, like he's building the image up through layers of energetic marks. Notice how the lines that form the trees and the horse are not clean or precise; they're kind of scratchy and raw. Take the horse's body, for example. It's like Krupa is mapping out the form, rather than trying to create a perfect representation. This kind of reminds me of Cy Twombly, but with more of an edge. It's like Krupa is saying, "Here's a horse, here's a tree, but more importantly, here's the energy and process of seeing them." It leaves you space to fill in the gaps and make your own connections.