McCaig-Welles Gallery
129 Roebling Street Brooklyn, NY 11211
Email: info@mccaigwelles.com
Phone: 718.384.8729
Director: Melissa McCaig-Welles
Founded in 2000
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a) R. Nicholas Kuszyk
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McCaig-Welles officially opened it’s doors on March 3, 2001 on the Southside of Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Four years later, and a few blocks further North, the gallery has continued its focus on championing street, underground and outsider artists. Most of McCaig-Welles repertoire of artists live and work in NYC with careers ranging from mid to well established.
FEATURED ARTISTS: R. Nicholas Kuszyk and Roger Snider
Artists’ Bios:
R. Nicholas Kuszyk
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 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.
Roger Snider
Roger’s first pictures were taken from a plane flown by his father, an aerial photographer. Earned a BFA in Creative Photography from the University of Florida. Moved to San Francisco, moonlighted as a location scout and photo assistant while establishing his strong vision in the industry. Moved to New York City shooting editorials, advertising, and had a 2003 single person gallery show at McCaig Welles in Williamsburg, Brooklyn Moved to Los Angeles. Photo assignments include film stills, celebrity portraiture & documentary studies.
Custom Big Rigs
Custom big rigs have become an obsession for me. I travel the U S and Canada meeting drivers at truck shows and setting up location shoots. I have gallery shows of the work across the country and invite the owners to bring their trucks to the openings. I have met some amazing people and really appreciate having access to this American subculture. These trucks represent a dying breed of truck owner yet have a growing popularity with the American mainstream thanks to television and films. The stories behind each rig are fascinating. You won’t believe the technology and craftsmanship that goes into every inch of these big rigs.