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ARTIST ARCHIVE
Ted Kurahara
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Themes: golden section , abstract, minimal, field-color painting, monochrome Review: Ted Kurahara All of the Ted Kurahara's works are minimalist abstract paintings. The art critic Donald Kuspit wrote of Kurahara that "Kuhara's work has a manifest rational look, but tingles with irrational excitement - the latent sensuality built into the picture by the painting process. Viewed from the distance his paintings radiate order - solemn, implacable, ultimate - but viewed up close there is a sense of underlying impulsiveness conveyed by the colors that pulse through the surface, that lay like nervous traces on its false stability. --- Kurahara's diptychs successfully create an aura, and the greater the tension between the separate panels the greater the aura effect, which clearly comes from the stretching of unity, straining it not so much to the breaking point as towards complexity." The artist's folder in the AAAC Archives includes 52 slides, photographs of his paintings, two catalogs of the exhibitions in which the artist's works were included, several invitation cards, Xeroxed copies of the essays written by Donald Kuspit and Crinne Robins and press releases. -- Reviewed by Young Park | |||||||||
