666 ROBOTS ARE TAKING OVER MCCAIG&WELLES
Robots will be taking over McCaig-Welles! 666 paintings, hung in tight formation, will circle the walls of the McCaig- Welles Gallery in Williamsburg, Brooklyn on Friday September 8, 2006.
An artist from Virginia, R. Nicholas Kuszyk paints small colorful paintings depicting robots in various settings and situations. With bright backgrounds and silver and black machines, they are full of whimsical narrative style.
"The Complete Masterworks" depicts scenes of robots in Old Masterwork settings: robots dining at "The Last Supper", "Mona Lisa" as a robot and "The Egyptian Book of the Dead" as experienced by his robots.
There will also be robotic interpretations of Jackson Pollack and David Hockney paintings.
Kuszyk’s 666 paintings will be ranging from $25 to $2000 with small pieces averaging around $40
"Kuszyk has found his object of affection, a screwed-up, metallic mechanical-looking something with arms and feet, an endearing creature depicted colorfully and inventively in the over 200 works exhibited." –- LF, Art Circles Institute
"Their simplicity begs you to look deeper in search of some hidden revelation. Do the robots represent humanity's fragile spirit? Our malfunctioning emotions? Kuszyk couldn't care less. He just likes to paint robots . . . over and over and over again." Peter Humes, Times-Dispatch
"R. Nicholas has been drawing robots for over 6 years. he has drawn more than a thousand robots and sold almost every single one. He has won several awards in the emerging artists arena. Several years ago he was awarded a Museum fellowship from the Virginia Museum of Fine Art and more rectly he was awarded the "Teresa Pollack Emerging Artists Award" -- bluebottleart.com
"Kuszyk’s straightforward themes and agreeable imagery are akin to Keith Haring’s primitive dancing figures. Like those, Kuszyk’s robots hide complex ideas in their simple imagery. Stacked together in a mass of machine humanity, spewing bolts or searching for spare parts, Kuszyk’s comic robots are alive with insight." -- Julia Morton, NY Press
R. Nicholas Kusyk was born in 1978. He attended Virginia Commonwealth University. This is his third solo show at McCaig-Welles. He has also shown at Cinders gallery in Brooklyn, Blue Bottle Gallery in Seattle Washington and Lab101 gallery in LA. His current home shifts from Brooklyn New York, the Mountains of Virginia and LA.
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