Kent Rush
Berm, 1982

Acrylic on paper
52 x 81 in.

This painting by Kent Rush is from a period in which he worked on stretched paper panels. In the catalogue to a retrospective of Rush’s work at the McNay, Lyle Williams, curator of prints and drawings, wrote that these works are “completely abstract with only the expressiveness of lines, tones, and textures to carry the composition.”* The subtleties of this painting begin to emerge the longer a person looks at it.

*Lyle Williams, Kent Rush: A Retrospective 1970-1998, (San Antonio: The Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum, 1998) p. 22.

Kent Rush received a BFA at the California College of Arts and Crafts, and MA at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, and an MFA at the University of Texas in Austin. He is a professor of painting, drawing and printmaking at the University of Texas at San Antonio.

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