I’ll say it again, Kris Kuksi’s sculptures need to be seen in person. See all the obsessive sculptural nuances by the modern Rococo master up close. Don’t just squint at the .jpgs but come and walk up to these floating islands, dripping in details, blooming with guns barrels, anachronistic soldiers, machines in decay. What is it about growing up lonely in rural Kansas in a broken home that makes one make stuff like this? Beats us. See the freshest, like the mythical-themed first three above at: Kris Kuksi, “Triumph,” Mar 8 – Apr 7, Joshua Liner Gallery, NYC
Up Close Into Kris Kuksi’s Gorgeous Hell at PULSE
ANIMAL commenters were right to send me for a real life gawk at Kris Kuksi’s detailed sculptures of bionic soldiers and organic factories, intricately intwined in war and death motifs, courtesy of Joshua Liner‘s PULSE Art Fair LA booth. The closer you look, the more tiny tiny, bomb-wielding, tank-riding little tools of tyranny emerge. Nifty. Read more »
The Joshua Liner Gallery brings the big guns to PULSE Los Angeles with the best of macabre contemporary Baroque – American artist Kris Kuksi’s new necro-anachronistic, Medieval-Futuristic sculptures. Technically, they’re “mixed media assemblages,” but that’s not very descriptive for something this epic. Read more »
Out of broken toys, mechanical parts and other detritus, artist Kris Kukis builds intriciately macabre sculptures requiring a studied look. A “scavenger of pop-cultural castoffs,” the Kansas-based artist opens an exhibition of these assemblages, which include St. Anthony, patron of lost causes, darkly pondering a small soldier in one hand and a spiked bat in the other. “Beast Anthology” opens November 21st at Joshua Liner Gallery.
“Beast Anthology,” November 21 – December 19, Joshua Liner Gallery, 548 West 28th, 3rd Floor
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