Career
He is best known for landscape and still life compositions painted with evocatively rhythmic forms and vibrant colors. Born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, Kresch moved with his family to New York in the 1930s. He began studying figure drawing at the Brooklyn Museum, but soon enrolled in the Hans Hofmann School.
There he met Leland Bell, Louisa Matthíasdóttir, Nell Blaine, Judith Rothschild, Robert De Niro, Senior, and Virginia Admiral among other artists of note.
These friendships proved a source of inspiration throughout much of his life. In the 1940s, he exhibited abstract work in his first two shows at the Jane Street Gallery, at a time when Abstract Expressionism was gathering steam.
Friendships with poets Denise Levertov, and Frank O’Hara reflect the breadth of his interests. His painting philosophy was a subject of Levertov"s poems "The Dog of Art" and "Kresch"s Studio."
Everhart Museum, Scranton, PennsylvaniaNational Academy of Design, New York
Wright State University Galleries, Dayton, Ohio.