Gary Kuehn is an American artist whose sculptures and paintings challenge rigid modernist systems by introducing physical strain, imbalance, and imperfection. Working since the 1960s, he positioned himself adjacent to minimalism, using many of its materials—steel, wood, rubber, resin—while intentionally undermining their stability.
Kuehn’s works often appear as if they are sagging, buckling, or resisting pressure. Beams droop; planes warp; cubes fracture. These distortions introduce a human, emotional register into traditionally austere geometric form.
His drawings and paintings echo these ideas through broken lines, interrupted fields, and ambiguous spatial cues.
Gary Kuehn is an American artist known for sculptures and paintings that introduce tension, distortion, and emotional charge into geometric structures.
Gary Kuehn is an American artist known for sculptures that introduce strain and distortion into geometric forms, challenging minimalism’s rigidity.
