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The title of the exhibition comes from a 1980’s song by folk musician Kate Wolf, in which she sings about time passing, reflecting on one’s life and accepting the nature of change— themes that constantly echo in the painter’s studio.

The relationship between paintings and music is present in Kuruneru’s body of work. Rhythm and movement are developed through repetition of gestures personal to the artists’ hand. Loud and gentle coloured shapes float across the canvas, creating a multi perspective experience inspired by 10th century Chinese landscape paintings—an anchor to his own Chinese heritage. Kuruneru’s all over composition can be traced to Ab-Ex artists such as Lee Krasner, but also unexpected connections like Carla Accardi and Simon Hantai.

Kuruneru paints his own visual language composed of colourful blocky geometric forms that oscillate between optical illusion and the material reality of acrylic absorbed into the weave of raw canvas. Using formal painting methods rooted in art history and autobiography, Kuruneru’s work is bold and playful, intimate and poetic.