Kris Kuksi
Kris Kuksi is an American artist. In 2006 he was among approximately fifty finalists in the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition organised at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery.[1]
Kris Kuksi | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1973 |
| Nationality | American |
| Known for | Assemblages, painting, drawing |
| Movement | Classical roots; related to Surrealism |
| Website | kuksi |
Education
Kuksi received his Master of Fine Arts from Fort Hays University in 2002.[2]
Work
Kuksi has studied with established artists in Italy, Austria and Spain, including participating in several international workshops including "Painting the Fantastic" with Robert Venosa in Italy, "Old Masters New Visions Seminar" with Philip Rubinov Jacobson in Austria and "Painting Dali's Garden", with Venosa in Spain.[3]
He creates intricate sculptures made up of thousands of individual parts that he collects and re-shapes before putting them together in a cohesive design.[4] The National Museum of the Marine Corps exhibits three of his sculptures.[5]
In 2006 he was among approximately fifty finalists in the Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition organised at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery.[1] His work was shown at the Pulse Art Fair in Los Angeles in 2011,[6] and has appeared on the front covers of the magazines Philosophie[7] and Bl!sss.[8] The Ellis County Bar Association in Kansas owns one of his works.[9]
Critical response
In a review of his 2003 solo show at the Fraser Gallery in Washington, D.C., Michael O'Sullivan of the Washington Post described his images as "contrived to disturb and confront the viewer, which is probably why they don't".[10]
Books
His book Divination and Delusion (ISBN 9780980323139) was published in 2010 by Last Gasp. His second book, Conquest (ISBN 9780847860265), was published in 2017 by Rizzoli International Publications, Inc.
References
- Home / Exhibition / 2006. Washington: National Portrait Gallery. Archived 9 November 2020.
- Kuksi, Kris (22 April 2002). "Towards the Within". Master's Theses.
- The Arts. Hays, Kansas. Archived 5 April 2012.
- "Kris Kuksi". The Virginia A. Groot Foundation. Retrieved 4 October 2022.
- Schogol, Jeff (19 December 2017). "New sculptures show how Marines win in battle and at home". Marine Corps Times. Retrieved 4 October 2022.
- "7th Annual Pulse Miami Contemporary Art Fair". Tibetan Art Studio. Retrieved 26 January 2012.
- "Le XXI siècle sera-t-il religieux?". Philosophie Magazine. Retrieved 1 February 2012.
- "Bl!sss Magazine November 2011". Bl!sss Magazine. Archived from the original on 15 December 2011. Retrieved 31 January 2012.
- Bar Association of the State of Kansas; Kansas Bar Association (2003). The journal of the Kansas Bar Association. Bar Association of the State of Kansas. Retrieved 31 January 2012.
- O'Sullivan, Michael (2 May 2003). "A Gander at the Galleries of Georgetown". The Washington Post.