Using formal painting methods rooted in art history and autobiography, Kuruneru’s work is bold and playful, intimate and poetic.

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.

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 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 compositions find their historical lineage in European abstractionists like Simon Hantai and Carla Accardi, as well as to Abstract Expressionist artists such as Lee Krasner.