Crossover 1972

Nicholas Krushenick made Crossover with paint. It's a real trip of colour and form. Look at that yellow! It's like the sun exploded, right? And the pink and orange stripes? They're so bold, so unapologetic. It’s all about surface, it's so flat you almost can't see the brushstrokes – if there even are any! It's more like an image, a graphic, with sharp contrasts that really smack you in the face. See how the stripes are cut by black lines like some kind of weird fringe. The black outline is like a comic book, super simple. Krushenick's work always had this pop art punch, think Warhol maybe, but with his own special twist. He really knew how to make colours sing, or maybe scream, depending on how you look at it. Art is a conversation and these colours are shouting loud.