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Todd J. Kruse
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I have a great passion to create and I want to do it in my own style.


Current Residence: Highland, California


Facebook page: www.facebook.com/#!/TKruseArt?…

Email Address: toddjkruse@gmail.com


I Interview Creatives! See the Hopes & Dreams TV channel on YouTube!


Shows and Awards:

2022: Group Show, Salmagundi Club, Greenwich Village, NYC

Puzzle Collection (9 abstracts) by ENJOY-puzzle.com

Painting acquired and shown in the Vicksburg Civil War Museum (Vicksburg, Miss.)


2020: Interview in Cadet Magazine, Vol. IV

Book Cover -- published by Catholic Health Association of the US, St. Louis, MO


2019: Cover, James Caird Society Journal (Ernest Shackleton portrait)


2016: Previous member of abstract7 ( abstract7.com/home.html )


2015: Award for Most Creative Piece, Silicon Valley Food and Art Festival, Cupertino, California

Group Show, Main Street Cafe, Los Altos California

Solo show, Red Rock Cafe, Mountain View, California

VanGogh portrait auctioned in Netherlands to help fund "Potato Eaters" sculpture in Eindhoven


2014: ArtCrasher Group Show, Venice Arts Gallery, Los Angeles

ArtCrasher Group Show, SOMArts Cultural Center, San Francisco

Kruse Cadet Magazine spread internal

Favourite Visual Artist
Willem DeKooning, Joan Mitchell
Favourite Writers
i'm into spoken word - check out Anis Mojgani! (YouTube)
Other Interests
Civil War photos, Painting old photos, Antiques, Civil War Tokens, Futures Studies

A fun interview

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A friend interviewed me for her blog.  She's a great writer and interviewer.   http://jahangiri.us/2013/interview-with-artist-todd-kruse/
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Thank you to everyone here who's encouraged me and provided feedback about my art.   Today feels like a big day for me.  It's the first time I've been invited into a gallery show after someone has seen my art.   I've actually been in a couple few other gallery events previously but they were apply and pay your fees sort of shows.  I had to get the courage to apply to those and see if they would approve my participation.  Not that they weren't great shows.  There were usually a number of highly talented artists there that I got to know and learn from.   Great fun!  But this one feels different.   Maybe also because it's in San Francisco.  That
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4/6/2013

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You gotta stay hungry and inquisitive.   Creativity needs to burn through you if you want your art to keep evolving;   At least as an abstractionist.    I'm continually thinking of ways to modify and try something new, though i'm often too busy to make it happen.   But you gotta live like today's your last to get really good at art.   That's my challenge.
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Thanks for the fav

Thank you for the watch

Thank you very much, for the glorious Award of the Quartz Badge.


We will proudly pin it to our lapel, to the heart's side of our chest.


Favor returned by Poo' Man's Llama, no less from HeArt (...he, Art, like in wording HisStory by 'King of Pop' MJ.)


Sir, you do cr8 some very fine Art urself. We spent Quality Time, in your Gallery. Kudos.


Many happy return visits to come, to our Adults only Realm & Republique of ArtLo


Cheers !


Arthur 'Art' Logan

kNot King / Prez o' Kink

Photographer, Rigger, Editor-in-Chief.

Chairman, Realm & Republique of ArtLo

Thanks you for your favs!
thansk for the fav, Todd;:-)
Hey Todd, thanks so much for another fave!!
I naturally gravitate towards your paintings.  Very inspiring :)