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Kris Kuksi: “Pneumatic” – Roq La Rue Gallery

April 10, 2011 By Wendy Campbell

Kansas based artist Kris Kuksi is exhibiting his mixed media sculptures alongside Travis Louie’s The Creature Show at Roq La Rue Gallery in Seattle. This new body of work entitled Pneumatic shows Kuksi’s astonishing “post industrial rococo” assemblages. As a special treat will also be exhibiting several hyper intricate drawings.

“Kuksi garners recognition and acclaim for the intricate sculptures that result from his unique and meticulous technique. A process that requires countless hours to assemble, collect, manipulate, cut, and re-shape thousands of individual parts, finally uniting them into an orchestral-like seamless cohesion that defines the historical rise and fall of civilization and envisions the possible future(s) of humanity.” (from Kuksi.com)

Pneumatic runs through May 7, 2011.

To see more of Kuksi’s work, visit Kuksi.com.




Filed Under: ART, Mixed Media, Sculpture Tagged With: American Art, Assemblage Art, Kris Kuksi, Kris Kuksi-Pneumatic, Roq La Rue Gallery

Kris Kuksi: Mixed Media Assemblage

January 11, 2010 By Wendy Campbell

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These intricate pieces are by American artist Kris Kuksi. Born in 1973 in Springfield Missouri, Kuksi grew up in Kansas in rural seclusion and isolation.  “Open country, sparse trees, and later alcoholic stepfathers, perhaps paved the way for an individual saturated in imagination and introversion. His fascination with the unusual lent to his macabre art later in life. The grotesque to him as it seemed, was beauty. In adulthood his art blossomed as a breakthrough to personal freedom from the negative environments experienced in youth. He soon discovered his distaste for the typical and popular culture of American life and felt that he had always belonged to the ‘Old World’. In personal reflection, he feels that much of mankind in the World today is elastic and fragile being driven primarily by greed and materialism. He hopes that through his art expose his audience to the awareness of the fallacies of Man. His work has received several awards and prizes and has been featured in over 100 exhibitions world wide as well as featured in international art magazines and fictional book covers.” (bio from Joshua Liner Gallery)

Of his art, Kuksi says, “I get inspired by the industrial world, all the rigidity of machinery, the network of pipes, wires, refineries, etc. Then I join that with an opposite of flowing graceful, harmonious, and pleasing design of the Baroque and Rococo. And of course I add a bit weirdness and the macabre. It’s all about how I see the evolution of what man makes his created environment look like.”

To see Kuksi’s work in closer detail, visit Kuksi.com.

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Dharma_Bovine_Kris-Kuksi

Sources: Joshua Liner Gallery

Filed Under: ART, Mixed Media, Sculpture Tagged With: Kris Kuksi

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