Jill Krutick's Fine Art Featured at Augustine's Salumeria, An Award-Winning Restaurant in Mamaroneck

As the menu changes at Augustine’s Salumeria, so does the art. Jill Krutick was asked by the owners Bri and Marc to showcase her work for the fall at their award-winning restaurant, located just steps from Jill’s studio/gallery in Mamaroneck. Jill’s art fills this Michelin Guide, Best of Westchester, Wine Spectator-recognized restaurant, which has only been open for about two years. Jill said, “I’m so honored to share my work. Enjoy the images below and hope you stop by and visit Augustine’s Salumeria for fine dining!”

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Jill Krutick: From Wall Street to Museums, The Metamorphosis of an Artist, by Elizabeth Sobieski, Medium

Article written by Elizabeth Sobieski for Medium (an online publication)

It’s just a half-hour north by train from New York’s Grand Central Station to Jill Krutick’s Mamaroneck studio, a spacious and tranquil light-filled world chockablock with color; color that tantalizes a viewer from all directions, color extruding from a myriad of arresting canvases.

There is also something in shades of gray, large and looming, lumbering about the space.

Krutick’s affable sheepdog, Rocket, serves as a sort of studio assistant - well not exactly - but he’s joyful company, and he somehow manages to not be bathed in oil and acrylic and to never damage those lyrical and luminous paintings emerging from his master’s talented hand and eye and heart.

Jill Krutick is an abstract expressionist painter. Full of enthusiasm, she shows me just honed canvases she has created for her shows at the esteemed National Arts Club (through May 29) and Art Gotham (July 1 to August 30), both in Manhattan, and for the Hamptons Fine Art Fair (July 11–14) in Southampton.

They are vibrant and multi-hued and breathtakingly beautiful, striking as both paintings and collages.

A creamy-skinned, dimpled redhead, Krutick laughs readily. Over the years, she has envisioned seven series that she continuously returns to; some are abstract landscapes, some are called Swirls, and others, for overt reasons, their square shapes within the bounds of the canvas, are referenced as Ice Cubes.

Ice Cube Montana Sapphires, 2019, 60 x 60, oil on canvas, Courtesy of Jill Krutick

Some of her paintings are deeply textured through the incorporation of molding paste. Many of her works have captured what she has experienced during her family’s usually ecologically-oriented travels, paintings that indirectly address the vanishing Great Barrier Reef, the splendid purity of Antarctica, the wildlife of the Galapagos, and a recent experience peering down the world’s largest waterfall, Victoria Falls in Africa.

I spot some watercolors. Jill Krutick calls these Contours of Earth and they depict a dystopic view of the world; climate change melting ice caps as sea levels rise and the earth heats up and dries.

Recent museum exhibits have been at the Coral Springs Museum of Art, the Yellowstone Museum of Art, and The Longwood Center for the Visual Arts.

Her latest museum exhibition at Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park & Museum, Ohio, featured a site-specific 85-foot long abstract artwork, Coral Beliefs, a mixed media on panel work that captures both the exquisite beauty and the unprecedented tribulations faced by coral reefs around the world today.

Children’s books that she once read to Zoe and Wylie, now 28 and 25, a newly minted attorney and a professional fisherman, have served as another inspiration.

The artist says, “Sometimes you start out with one idea and it becomes something completely different. With an abstract landscape, I know the general elements but sometimes it turns into a different painting, a mystery.”

When she was focused on a show at the Yellowstone Museum, Jill Krutick’s visits to Montana encouraged her to capture the color and energy of that spectacular state, its mountains skies, and wildlife. The shimmering skin of local trout.

She holds up two Montana sapphires, small stones in blue and orange tones, colors that had been incorporated into her palate.

Rainbow Trout, Brown Trout, Brook Trout and Cutthroat Trout, (pictured top to bottom) each 20 x 60 inches, oil on canvas. All four are part of the permanent collection of the Yellowstone Art Museum. Pictured at Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, Montana, Courtesy of Jill Krutick

Left and Right Brained

Krutick is a born and raised New Yorker who only became a full-time painter in 2011, and her progress has been spectacular.

An artistic child, she both painted and was a serious student of piano. She had initially considered becoming a professional pianist, before deciding that it was too solitary an undertaking.

She looked upon her visual pursuits as a private passion; she always painted but didn’t display. She says, “I was extremely driven as a child to be independent.”

She’s a most unusual artist in that she is equally left-brained and right-brained.

Along with her artistic pursuits, she also loved numbers and was interested in business and graduated from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in Finance. Her bifurcated brain, though, initially led her to the business end of the music industry, prior to success after success on Wall Street.

Left and Right Brained

Krutick is a born and raised New Yorker who only became a full-time painter in 2011, and her progress has been spectacular.

An artistic child, she both painted and was a serious student of piano. She had initially considered becoming a professional pianist, before deciding that it was too solitary an undertaking.

She looked upon her visual pursuits as a private passion; she always painted but didn’t display. She says, “I was extremely driven as a child to be independent.”

She’s a most unusual artist in that she is equally left-brained and right-brained.

Along with her artistic pursuits, she also loved numbers and was interested in business and graduated from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in Finance. Her bifurcated brain, though, initially led her to the business end of the music industry, prior to success after success on Wall Street.

She remembers, “I needed a very stimulating environment. I spent 17 years there.”

Entertainment and leisure businesses became her professional forte.

She helped take various resorts public. She was named Fortune Magazine’s #1 entertainment analysis and Institutional Investor ranked her in both entertainment and leisure, ranking Jill Krutick at the very top in leisure, which includes cruise companies and toy companies.

She notes, “You had to understand the nuances of all these different companies, of which there were many.”

While this was both a very amusing area of business and a very demanding one, Jill Krutick continued to paint, taking courses at New York’s famed Art Students League.

Dimples lighting up her face, she laughs, saying, “Something was bursting to get out.”

She adds, “The art became sort of a recovery place because Wall Street was an insanely intense environment. When I started painting at night, it became a release.”

She moved to a position at Warner Music, a position that offered more free time to spend with her attorney husband, Robert Berg, and their children. And her art.

She says, “The job became more manageable. It was at that point a corporate job rather than Wall Street. It became a place to disappear. I think that’s why I have always painted with such beautiful colors. I just want to be in that happy place. That was my therapy and it grew into something obviously much more significant. I knew I had all of that bursting inside of me and I knew I saw the world through a creative eye, that I was attracted to different colors, shapes, and images.”

And her painting became freer and freer. “I won’t paint in a style where it is confining, where it is constricting. It’s all very instinctive with natural movements.”

But she didn’t think art would become a new career, not until someone at a company called Partners International saw her work and asked if she could hang some pieces in their offices.

Soon, various executives were purchasing Jill Krutick’s paintings right off the office walls. She says, “That is when I got the bug to maybe pursue this full-time.”

Since 2011, she has had more than a dozen solo shows and participated in numerous group shows. Her work is in the permanent collections of several museums, including The Coral Springs Museum in Florida, which held a major solo exhibition of her paintings.

Jill Krutick’s art is now on display internationally; several of her paintings were shown in Mallorca (Majorca), Spain, at the Museu de Porreres.

Her alma mater, the University of Pennsylvania, has added a Krutick to its permanent collection.

I have been following her unique career for a few years. I was first entranced by her paintings when I saw them at Manolis Projects in Miami, which is an enormous studio/gallery run by another talented abstract painter and former banker, J. Steven Manolis.

I later met Jill and experienced a striking group show at the Georges Berges Gallery in New York’s SoHo, The Feminine Sublime, an exhibit that featured several contemporary women abstract painters. One of Krutick’s pieces was the one most apparent to passersby, the gallery’s catnip, the one closest to the storefront window.

Jill Krutick at Georges Berges Gallery, NYC next to Shangri La 4, 108 x 48 inches, acrylic on canvas and Elektra, 60 x 48 inches, oil on canvas (right), Courtesy of Jill Krutick

I asked how she was chosen for that show and she said the renowned art critic, Donald Kuspit, who was curating the exhibit, had contacted her by email. She was very pleased to be part of this group of emerging female abstract artists. She says, “It is wonderful to see a shift and the opportunity to showcase work with fellow artists, and other people from the community.”

The Rise of Painting

Iceberg Castle, 2024, mixed media on canvas, 36 x 36 inches, on display at New York’s National Arts Club, through May 29, 2024, Courtesy of Jill Krutick

There is a renaissance, a revived appreciation for abstract painting now. For a number of years, top tier museums and blue chip galleries have been flooded with installations, conceptual art and photography, painting being relegated to an also ran.

But despite rumors to the contrary, and its displacement at a number of MFA programs, painting has never been dead and has instead reemerged triumphant.

Recent Whitney Biennials have abounded with paintings. The Armory Show and the Art Dealers Association of America fairs, as well as Art Basel and the Frieze Art Fairs in both Los Angeles and New York, featuring only the most esteemed international contemporary galleries, have been showing far more paintings than anything else.

Sarah Sze, the United States representative at the 2013 Venice Biennale and a MacArthur Fellow, celebrated for her installations and sculptures, is suddenly making and exhibiting abstract paintings.

And the legendary figurative painter and portraitist, the nonagenarian Alex Katz, displayed new work at his 2023 Guggenheim retrospective that appeared completely abstract, without a single canine or human, not even his familiar red-lipsticked wife Ada.

Jill Krutick’s abstract expressionist artwork couldn’t be more current.

Before visiting Jill Krutick’s studio, I jotted down which artists I considered her painterly forebears. In my notes I had written, “Monet, DeKooning, Richter, and Rothko.”

I asked her to name her favorite artists and she listed the very same ones, with the additions of Van Gogh and Chagall. I showed her my notes and she seemed surprised. But while her painterly ancestry may be apparent, her paintings are stylistically unique to her.

Jill Krutick employs some time-honored techniques and materials, like brushes and palate knives, but takes advantage of such means of applying paint as squeegies, turkey basters, and various sized beaters.

She admits that some of her work comes readily, whereas other pieces are a struggle, taking months or even years to paint before she feels they are fully evolved, ready to emerge from the studio.

She states that, “Many paintings are paintings over paintings over paintings.” She points to one luminescent piece called Stairway to Heaven, which she had originally started years ago and only recently completed to her satisfaction. She adds, “Some are easy and some are pain and torture.” But the torture and pain are not apparent to a beholder, only the incandescent beauty.

Looking around the sunny studio at her canvases, Jill Krutick says, ”Everything gets named after the painting is done, as to what it means to me. Like the Phoenix was a very autobiographical painting that showed me going through the gauntlet and rising from the ashes of Wall Street to the world of art. It became the right name for that painting. Each painting to me always tells a story and that’s when I know a painting is complete, when I actually have crystallized whatever I am trying to accomplish.”

She firmly believes, “It is the thing you have to get through to arrive at the freedom.”

Jill Krutick’s Mamaroneck, NY art studio/gallery, Courtesy of Jill Krutick

Sea Foam Study: Shim Art Card

Sea Foam Study for SHIM Art Card

The Sea Foam watercolors are a series of small-scale watercolors that I made to prepare for future SHIM/ArtCard exhibitions. These pieces were created by dividing a large (36 x 36 inches) completed watercolor into 20 smaller (6 x 8 inches) standalone works. Each piece has all the elements of a finished work but can also be part of the larger group.

Showcasing the aqueous affects of water is central to my Coral Reef series — a series that celebrates oceanic life forms which thrive when all the pieces support each other. This philosophy can be applied to many things in life — including the formation of the SHIM/ArtCard group.

The SHIM/ArtCard group, is an exhibition group made up of over 50 artists from around the world (and still growing) inspired to create high quality, affordable, small scale art works. Since its inception in December of 2021, the group has exhibited in New York City, Westchester, NY, Venice and Artsy.net. In September of 2022 (September 10, 2022 from 4-6PM) there will be an opening for over 200 artists at Jill Krutick Fine Art for the SHIM/ArtCard group as well as other artist groups in the SHIM Art Network. These groups will also be offered opportunities to exhibit in Miami during Art Basel among other places.

The SHIM/ArtCard group creates an opportunity for artists of all backgrounds and skill levels to create and exhibit postcard-sized artwork, which can travel the world and offer a collaborative network of creative and supportive artists.

I invite artists to join this journey, which opens a world of possibilities…stay tuned for updates about a new open call for Miami.

Sea Foam ArtCards. Each piece 6 x 8 inches. Watercolor on yupo paper.

Fair Share Art Offerings, June Exhibition to Open Shortly

Fair Share Art, @fairshareart on Instagram, works to promote original works by artists to raise visibility and to connect art enthusiasts and collectors directly to the artist. The artwork is live on their page for a month, and new work is uploaded regularly. Jill Krutick has been sharing her works to Fair Share Art for the past several months. Scroll through her work!

Tropical Flow 2

Aquarium 1

Watercolor on Yupo paper, 14 x 11 inches (35.6 x 28.0cm).

Watercolor on Yupo paper, 14 x 11 inches (35.6 x 28.0cm).

Hiring Designer/Photographer for Jill Krutick Fine Art

After four years! my valued associate, Simone Kurtz, is moving onto a great, new design opportunity at CreativeDrive. So thrilled for her! I am now looking to find a new colleague to work at my studio/gallery in Mamaroneck, NY. to help me market, design promo material, prepare for large scale museum exhibitions and support my efforts to expand my artist network (among many other projects). Design/Photography/Marketing are the focus. More details for this opportunity are available.

Overview
Abstract expressionist artist/entrepreneur has a working studio and gallery in Mamaroneck Village, New York where she prepares for museum shows and large-scale exhibitions. Seeking highly motivated part-time associate, with full-time potential. Must have a strong graphic design background, social marketing skills, communication skills, and be a self-starter. Experience in photography with an interest in artist management is a plus. Able to help hang, pack, and lift paintings, is also desired.

Qualifications

• Computer Skills: Proficiency in Mac platforms and Adobe Creative Cloud (Photoshop, Lightroom or Lightroom Classic, InDesign). Experience with Adobe Illustrator, MailChimp, and website maintenance is a plus.

• Experience in social media marketing (Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, etc.)

• Experience with digital photography and taking high-quality images with a DSLR camera is a plus

• Strong writing and communication skills

• Self-starter—possess a sense of responsibility and can-do attitude

• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision and meet deadlines

• Ability to take initiative with projects and follow direction

• Excellent attention to detail and efficiently manage time by prioritizing tasks

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Maintain and update gallery website and social media outlets.

• Take photos of artwork and installations for posting on social media/website

• Provide logistical and administrative support for gallery exhibitions

• Research museum and galleries for artist opportunities

• Assist Artist/Owner in a range of daily operational and administrative tasks including hanging, packing, and moving paintings

Visit jillkrutickfineart.com for more information about our studio/gallery.

To apply, send a cover letter, resume and portfolio link to jsk@jillkrutickfineart.com

SHIM/ArtCard Exhibition Group Launching...

Calling all artists!

The Pitch

We are excited to be officially launching an exhibition group called SHIM/ArtCard dedicated to high quality, small works, easily shipped around the world.  Those who join will have a one-year membership, which includes the opportunity to upload six images- in two uploads of 3 images each at 6 month intervals- to Artsy.net as well as multiple exhibition opportunities.  The cost to enroll for the first year is $40 per person.

This exhibition group will be part of SHIM Art Network, an arts exhibition service company that provides essential digital and in-person exhibition resources to artists. The SHIM/ArtCard exhibition group will be run by Peter Hopkins and Jill Krutick.

Artsy Upload

Artsy, for those who do not know, is the world’s largest art e-commerce site, and has upwards of 2.5 million views per month to its homepage. The benefits for this usually cost $10,000 per gallery contract. The opportunity for emerging/established artists to access Artsy through SHIM, and make themselves searchable by collectors around the world is an undeniable asset.

The one-year membership to SHIM/ArtCard includes two batches of three images (six images in total) to be uploaded on Artsy.net in 2022. The SHIM/ArtCard page will be part of the SHIM Art Network gallery page on Artsy.

The first 3-image upload on Artsy should be completed by the end of June. The first upload will coincide with the timing of a Venice exhibition, which takes place from July to September 2022. It will be an online exhibition of the SHIM/ArtCard group on Artsy. The second upload will be done in the fall of 2022 and will likely coincide with other exhibition opportunities, yet to be announced.

Please see LINK to exhibitions recently hosted for similar ArtCard events at Jill Krutick Fine Art and in New York City during the Holiday ArtCard event. 

 The image submissions need to fit our “Art Card” requirements:

• Marketing: All artists need to be on Instagram and follow: @shimartnetwork, @jillkrutickfineartgallery, and @jillkrutickfineart, POST about events and their work and TAG the same three accounts:   @shimartnetwork, @jillkrutickfineartgallery, and @jillkrutickfineart. By doing this, we can repost each other’s work and grow everyone’s audience. If artists don’t adhere to these marketing rules, they will not be continuing members.

• The size of the works may be either: 4” x 6” or 6” x 8” (but no larger than 6 x 8") in any orientation.

• Original drawings, photographs, paintings, printmaking, digital prints, and mixed media on paper are welcome. Artists may also submit limited edition prints as one of their offerings.

• The work(s) must be relatively flat (no stretched canvas, raised panels, etc.) and be on postcard or any heavy weight paper. Artists are permitted to mount their works on mat boards for stability.

• For exhibition, each work should be individually protected with a well-fitted, clear protective covering so collectors can examine the pieces without harming them. Here is an example of this: Flap Seal Crystal Clear Bags by ClearBags.com.

• All work can be priced up to $250 per piece. The split for the work is 30% to the gallery and 70% to the artist. Buyers cover the shipping of the piece.

On the back of the work, please include:

• Title of piece

• Artist's name (both printed and signed)

• Instagram handle

• An indication of the top of the work with an arrow (if applicable) 

For those who want to participate, please fill out this REQUIRED FORM. Please don’t hesitate to reach out if you have any questions. I can be reached at jsk@jillkrutickfineart.com

If you have further questions, please contact Jill Krutick.

Jill Krutick
(914) 522-0420
jsk@jillkrutickfineart.com
@jillkrutickfineartgallery

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About SHIM Art Network’s Partnership with Jill Krutick Fine Art

Artists come together in the creation of an Eco-Squisite Corpse

Opening on Wednesday, February 9 at the Consulate General of Greece in New York City, SHIM Art Network and Jill Krutick Fine Art participates in Occupy Art. The project collaborates with over 50 artists in creating an eco-themed exquisite corpse. This construction involves many pieces of uniquely-made artwork that visually connect to create a larger body of work. The theme pulls inspiration from how an ecosystem functions: fundamentally individualistic yet synchronous as a whole. Each component measures twelve by twelve inches, resulting in a total length of over 50 feet. Participating artists range in experience from beginner to the professional.

A preview of 8 panels within the Eco-Squisite Corpse project

Close-up photos of a section of the project

A panorama of a section of the Eco-squisite Corpse project

Eco "Art-ivist" Original Gifted to University of Pennsylvania Permanent Art Collection

In December of 2021, Jill Krutick gifted eco-”art-ivist” piece Contours of the Earth: Aridification 25, 2021 to the permanent art collection of the University of Pennsylvania, Krutick’s alma mater. Krutick graduated from Wharton undergrad in 1984 with a joint degree in finance and decision sciences. This piece belongs to a series of work dedicated to the complications that arise from the gradual change of a region from a wetter to a drier climate, or aridification.

Below please take a look at the short video we made to show the process and inspiration behind this eco-based work and the development of the Contours of the Earth series.

This artist recreates a coral reef as she remembers it before devastation

This two-and-a-half minute video captures Jill Krutick, an abstract expressionist, as she develops her most recent inspiration and one of her largest pieces to date—The Coral Reef. A six panel, 6’ x 12’ work (each panel is 36 x 48 inches), was inspired by Krutick’s love for the world under the sea. Her diving days were spent exploring coral reefs and fish life in all its glory. It became an escape to visit this unique, exploratory world. Krutick reinterprets this journey through the use of mixed media — from a variety of acrylic based mediums to oil paint to even watercolors. Plastics, papers and other found objects are also used in the painting to recreate what we find in our oceans today. The beauty and “garbage” we find in the sea is captured in this abstract multi-panel work. We hope this work raises awareness about the preservation of our oceans, marine life and coral reefs.

You can follow Jill through her social media handles here:
• Fine Art Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jskfineart/
• Gallery Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JillKrutickFineArtGallery
• Fine Art Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jillkrutickfineart/
• Gallery Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jillkrutickfineartgallery/

Jill Krutick works on The Coral Reef

Detail Shots

Krutick uses a variety of media to complete her six-paneled piece.

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ARTIST GUIDELINES: Holiday SHIM/ArtCard Show

The holidays are here!

We are so excited to share with you that we’re planning another postcard show, just in time for the holidays!. We would like to carry-over any unsold work for this show and only add new pieces to replace sold pieces from our first event.

This show will take place on December 9, 10, and 11, 2022 in New York City at 31 W 26th St, New York, NY 10010.  A reception for this event will be held on Saturday, December 11th from 3-6PM. We also would appreciate knowing if anyone has a time block to help “manage” the exhibition for the group during the day/evening.

All returning artists will be required to read our Guidelines for Submission (below) and fill out the Submission Form to participate.

REQUIRED GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION

1. The size of work to exhibit may be either: 4” x 6” or 6” x 8” (but no larger than 6 x 8").

2. Original drawings, photographs, paintings, printmaking, digital prints, and mixed media on paper are welcome.

3. The work(s) must be relatively flat (no stretched canvas, raised panels, etc.) and be on postcard or any heavy weight paper. Artists are permitted to mount their works on mat boards for stability.

4. Each work should be individually protected with a well-fitted, clear protective covering so collectors can examine the pieces without harming them. Here is an example of this: Flap Seal Crystal Clear Bags by ClearBags.com.

5. On the back of the work, please include:

   • Title of piece

   • Artist's name (both printed and signed)

   • Instagram handle

   • An indication of the top of the work with an arrow (if applicable)

6. All artwork needs to arrive at Jill Krutick Fine Art (425 Mount Pleasant Ave, Mamaroneck, NY 10543) by Monday, December 6, 2022. We plan to have our installation on the following day. 

7. Artists are required to follow these accounts on Instagram: @shimartnetwork, @jillkrutickfineartgallery, and @jillkrutickfineart. 

8. Artists need to post about the event and their artwork in the show. If visiting the NYC gallery, please take pictures and promote the event to the fullest extent possible. All promotion of the event should include three handles: @shimartnetwork, @jillkrutickfineartgallery, and @jillkrutickfineart so we can repost and grow everyone’s audience.

Thank you!

If you have further questions, please contact Jill or Simone.

Jill Krutick
(914) 522-0420
jsk@jillkrutickfineart.com
@jillkrutickfineartgallery

Simone Kurtz
(914) 471-6223
smkurtz6@gmail.com
@thethirteenthour

Jill Krutick Fine Art Gallery and SHIM Art Network to host Bushwick Community Darkroom for December Show

Jill Krutick Fine Art Gallery is proud to partner with SHIM Art Network to present the 2021 SHIM Darkroom Showcase with the Bushwick Community Darkroom. The event will feature up to 25 photographers in a variety of photography styles done on film.

This event is organized by Jill Krutick of Jill Krutick Fine Art Gallery, Peter Hopkins of SHIM Art Network, and curated by Bushwick Community Darkroom founder Lucia Rollow.

Opening Reception will be held on Saturday, December 4, from 1-4 P.M. at Jill Krutick Fine Art Gallery at 425 Mount Pleasant Ave, Mamaroneck, NY 10543. Masks and proof of vaccination is required.

Chris Cook

WTC 2016

Furkan Uzunsac

Untitled

JB Reidenbaugh

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Rosemary Haynes

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