Hi, I'm Kushi Kumar.

It is said that how you live your life influences your art. Since I learned this, I made it my life’s mission to surround myself with art, virtuosity, and creativity. For as long as I can remember my passion has been painting. My dream has been to become a professional artist ceaselessly exploring, interacting, and learning from the experiences and culture around me.

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Art came to me when I was a 5-year-old child, playing with mud but my art style did not come easy to me. I struggled throughout my teenage years trying to figure out what my calling is.

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While completing my bachelor’s degree, I practiced different styles but did not find much inspiration until I learned about the modern Italian art movement, Spatialism. The artist Lucio Fontana inspired me and it was a moment of eureka as I found my direction. He founded Spatialism in Milan in 1947 in which he intended to synthesize color, sound, space, movement, and time into a new form of art. Once I read about him, his art, and his fascination with space I realized that I wasn’t meant for anything but abstract expressionism and contemporary art.

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Inspired by Fontana’s theory, I am working on cultivating my identity as an artist so as to fully implement life experiences gleaned from self-exploration and reflection while being fully dedicated to creating highly artistic and visually driven communication which would allow me to extend any simple execution into an emotive piece.

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My work focuses on experiential execution that can trigger human emotion. I value how conceptual art is fully interconnected with an expression of philosophy – providing an intellectual foundation. My paintings capture the emotion and essence of tradition with their rich language of expressive marks and abstracted forms.

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Abstraction lets me tap into my intuition and inventiveness, and work more spontaneously. Once I noticed the tremendous power that images can have to make people comfortable or uncomfortable, happy or sad, settled or unsettled, I knew I had a voice. I imbue my artwork with strong emotions and leave room for individual narratives. Art where the viewer can complete the story in their mind.