In 1956, when he gave his first public showing in a group exhibition, Krushenick's paintings strongly resembled the Abstract Expressionist style. Yet he was already starting to poise discernible shapes and masses next to each other, in what one critic perhaps misinterpreted as a "Cubist persuasion." Not a year later, on the occasion of his first solo show in 1957, another critic resisted the temptation to classify the emerging artist, content to observe Krushenick's "methodically painted strands or streamers which, varying from canvas to canvas in color, width and tensility, advance upon a rival host with similar properties or thrustingly explore an open space or solid color. The mutations on view are dramatically potent, flamboyantly so in the large canvases where black stalactites prong downward into yellow, or black fingers undulate from the bottom."