Kunz approaches the painting process performatively. Over a career spanning more than twenty-five years, Kunz has collaborated with architects, dancers, and musicians, most notably creating décor for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. The artist is known for a body of work that spans canvas painting and large-scale installation, unified by an unwavering focus on color as the primary vehicle of meaning and sensation. Her canvases are built slowly through layered washes of acrylic and dye on porous, unprimed surfaces, so that canvas and pigment become inseparable. The resulting surfaces are not reflective but internally luminous, as though the light originates from within the work itself. She works with an expansive palette drawn from threshold moments, such as the light of dusk and dawn, inflected by the charged saturation of 1960s psychedelic posters. Her signature formal vocabulary of arcs, wedges, and interlocking color planes arranges forms that lean into and support one another with open, dissolved edges, creating a sense of harmony rather than conflict.
