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Kris Kuksi @ Joshua Liner 11/21/09, by JoshuaLinerGallery on Nov 18, 2009 20:44:14 GMT 1, Our next shows opening this Saturday November 21st includes Kris Kuksi's solo exhibit 'Beast Anthology.' The show features 10 mixed media assemblages as well as one surprise piece. Sample images and press release attached below. Please let us know if you are interested in previewing the work.
Joshua Liner Gallery is pleased to present Beast Anthology, an exhibition of new mixed-media works by the Kansas artist Kris Kuksi.This is Kuksiโs second solo show with the gallery.
Resonant with the times, Kuksiโs art contains both micro and macro dimensions. A scavenger of pop-cultural castoffs, Kuksi combines mass-producedโjunkโโtoy soldiers, plastic skulls, knick-knack figurines, and mechanical bitsโinto rococo tableaux. His intricate assemblages of small parts and large figures resolve into highly aestheticized totems with an air of neoclassicism. But unlike the idealistic fantasies depicted in art of the Belle รpoque, Kuksi exposes the dark, crass, even mercenary underbelly of civilization.
The sculptural assemblages of Beast Anthology play broad riffs on a variety of morality themes. In The Temptation of St.Anthony, for example, the patron saint of lost and stolen articles is shown in a state of existential angst. Arrayed around this central figure are lost causes of every sort, from war-weary soldiers, to lost dogs and cows destined for the slaughterhouse, to detritus of obsolete technology. St. Anthony forms the towering pinnacle of this triangular composition; unable to intercede, he casts his doubt over the entire votive like the burnished pall of the workโs bronze-colored patina.
Almost hilarious by contrast, Gertrude Von Howitzerhen is a wry visual joke on blind faith and the eternal optimism of power. A chicken with a howitzer gun for a head is the large central figure in this multi-tiered scene of ruinous ecstasy, which includes robotic whores of Babylon and artillery of all shapes and sizes. Yet the spry, can-do spirit of this headless chicken is evident in the ladders, buttresses, and overall industriousness of the workโs meticulous construction. As the artist notes,โI get inspired by the industrial world, the rigidity of machineryโฆMy art speaks of potentiality and motion attempting to reach on forever and yet pessimistically delayedโฆI treat morbidity with a sympathetic touch.โ
Born in 1973, Kris Kuksi earned his BFA and MFA in Painting at Fort Hays State University and lives and works in Hays, Kansas. Solo exhibitions of his work include Imminent Utopia, Joshua Liner Gallery, New York (2008);Oblivion (with Richard Kirk), Strychnin Gallery, Berlin (2007); The Strange and The Fantastic, Leedy-Voulkos Art Center, Kansas City, MO (2004); and The Within, Fraser Gallery, Washington, DC (2003). Selected group exhibitions include Overdose, CoproGallery, Santa Monica, CA (2009); Paradise Lost, Williamsburg Art and Historical Center, Brooklyn (2008); and Flights of Imagination,Museum HR Giger,Gruyรจres, Switzerland (2006).
The Plague Parade: Opus 2 Mixed media assemblage 2009 42 x 62 x 16 in.
The Temptation of St. Anthony Mixed media assemblage 2009 39 x 38 x 12 in.
Gertrude Von Howitzerhen Mixed media assemblage 2009 29 x 21 x 8 in.
Our next shows opening this Saturday November 21st includes Kris Kuksi's solo exhibit 'Beast Anthology.' The show features 10 mixed media assemblages as well as one surprise piece. Sample images and press release attached below. Please let us know if you are interested in previewing the work. Joshua Liner Gallery is pleased to present Beast Anthology, an exhibition of new mixed-media works by the Kansas artist Kris Kuksi.This is Kuksiโs second solo show with the gallery. Resonant with the times, Kuksiโs art contains both micro and macro dimensions. A scavenger of pop-cultural castoffs, Kuksi combines mass-producedโjunkโโtoy soldiers, plastic skulls, knick-knack figurines, and mechanical bitsโinto rococo tableaux. His intricate assemblages of small parts and large figures resolve into highly aestheticized totems with an air of neoclassicism. But unlike the idealistic fantasies depicted in art of the Belle รpoque, Kuksi exposes the dark, crass, even mercenary underbelly of civilization. The sculptural assemblages of Beast Anthology play broad riffs on a variety of morality themes. In The Temptation of St.Anthony, for example, the patron saint of lost and stolen articles is shown in a state of existential angst. Arrayed around this central figure are lost causes of every sort, from war-weary soldiers, to lost dogs and cows destined for the slaughterhouse, to detritus of obsolete technology. St. Anthony forms the towering pinnacle of this triangular composition; unable to intercede, he casts his doubt over the entire votive like the burnished pall of the workโs bronze-colored patina. Almost hilarious by contrast, Gertrude Von Howitzerhen is a wry visual joke on blind faith and the eternal optimism of power. A chicken with a howitzer gun for a head is the large central figure in this multi-tiered scene of ruinous ecstasy, which includes robotic whores of Babylon and artillery of all shapes and sizes. Yet the spry, can-do spirit of this headless chicken is evident in the ladders, buttresses, and overall industriousness of the workโs meticulous construction. As the artist notes,โI get inspired by the industrial world, the rigidity of machineryโฆMy art speaks of potentiality and motion attempting to reach on forever and yet pessimistically delayedโฆI treat morbidity with a sympathetic touch.โ Born in 1973, Kris Kuksi earned his BFA and MFA in Painting at Fort Hays State University and lives and works in Hays, Kansas. Solo exhibitions of his work include Imminent Utopia, Joshua Liner Gallery, New York (2008);Oblivion (with Richard Kirk), Strychnin Gallery, Berlin (2007); The Strange and The Fantastic, Leedy-Voulkos Art Center, Kansas City, MO (2004); and The Within, Fraser Gallery, Washington, DC (2003). Selected group exhibitions include Overdose, CoproGallery, Santa Monica, CA (2009); Paradise Lost, Williamsburg Art and Historical Center, Brooklyn (2008); and Flights of Imagination,Museum HR Giger,Gruyรจres, Switzerland (2006). The Plague Parade: Opus 2 Mixed media assemblage 2009 42 x 62 x 16 in. The Temptation of St. Anthony Mixed media assemblage 2009 39 x 38 x 12 in. Gertrude Von Howitzerhen Mixed media assemblage 2009 29 x 21 x 8 in.
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Kris Kuksi @ Joshua Liner 11/21/09, by sputnikeye on Nov 21, 2009 21:34:56 GMT 1, superb
superb
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Kris Kuksi @ Joshua Liner 11/21/09, by wildbill on Nov 22, 2009 3:45:48 GMT 1, Good stuff!
Good stuff!
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Kris Kuksi @ Joshua Liner 11/21/09, by meatbag on Nov 22, 2009 5:51:08 GMT 1, some mind blowing pieces there. They have to be seen up close to really see ever bit of detail that he puts into these. It was a good show and I'm definitely a new fan of candice tripp!
some mind blowing pieces there. They have to be seen up close to really see ever bit of detail that he puts into these. It was a good show and I'm definitely a new fan of candice tripp!
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Kris Kuksi @ Joshua Liner 11/21/09, by origo on Nov 22, 2009 20:26:04 GMT 1, Insane skills, there must have gone some serious time into each piece.
Insane skills, there must have gone some serious time into each piece.
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Kris Kuksi @ Joshua Liner 11/21/09, by gilsteph on Nov 22, 2009 20:43:31 GMT 1, These are great....what kind of prices do they go for?
These are great....what kind of prices do they go for?
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