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McCaig-Welles
129 Roebling Street Brooklyn (Williamsburg) NY 11211
http://www.mccaigwelles.com info@mccaigwelles.com
718 384 8729 Director: Melissa McCaig-Welles
Founded in 2000
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
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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.
