I also got a mention on this site for the 439 metropolitan mural. they have a gnarly big pr firm working for them. i kind of feel like a double agent here but everyone involved has been super cool.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/22/realestate/22cov.html?_r=2&pagewanted=3&sq=kuszyk&st=cse&scp=1

I got a mention in the new york times real estate section this past sunday for the 349 metropolitan mural... pretty cool.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/22/realestate/22cov.html?_r=2&pagewanted=3&sq=kuszyk&st=cse&scp=1

i'm putting up some older photos. trying to be chronological... sort of. this blog program is a bit limited so i can only do one photo per blog and i cant rearrange them after they're posted. so basically i'm going through my hard drive and when i find a photo i like i blog it up for you to see. one at a time. one day i'll try to put together something more formal and presentable. this is cool for now though.

this was right at the time (maybe like six months into it,) that i decided to only paint "robots." it think this was taken in november or december 2000. this is an image of a studio/gallery room that i put a bunch of work up in at VCU. this was the first time i really went nuts and just hung everything everywhere to try to take over an entire space. i made a bunch of tiny paintings and made crazy retarded pedestals for them out of scrap wood. one of the paintings was a 15x30 drop cloth. one of my professors called me a "formalist." he was right to a certain degree. i was totally in art school formal mode. experimenting with the forms of the robots and scale and using different materials. the color was arbitrary for the most part at this point. the robots were the consistent.

here's an image from the installation of my first show at Mccaig-Welles Gallery in brooklyn. 2004. i had 242 paintings in the show. the most expensive piece sold for $800. that was the most i had sold a piece for. the small ones were like $30 or $40 (they still are) we sold a lot of them. like 70% i have a few left though. that's chris in the photo. i think he was the was the framer. i see him around every once in a while still.

this is from a show at chop suey in 2003. chop suey is a great book store in richmond virginia that s run by great people that organize a lot of great things in richmond... i have no idea what happened to the big painting in this one. these were fun because i didn't have to draw the outlines. it's all just silver shapes on a black background.

i should make it easier for you to read this text shouldn't i? it's kind of hard to see with all the stuff in the background... heres a picture of an "art show" that i did in a super tacky club in cincinatti called club claw!!! they had midgets in costumes and there were a bunch of rad transvestites mixed into this super hick/jock/money scene. it was super douchey and funny. the main guy who organized it drove a yellow hummer and wore a white du rag thing with diamonds on it. i think he had a heart attack from cocaine the night of the "opening." i don't remember how many paintings i made for this. but we sold a bunch of them to one guy for $500. a week later he said he didnt want them anymore so he returned them. he never paid. there were actually a few pretty cool artists in this show but i'll let them admit it. this was 2003.

here's an image from a mural i did in 2002 or 2003... it was on a bar called holy chow. it got featured on wooster collective around then.

so... heres an image from one of the first "big" art shows that we did in richmond virginia in january or february 2001 at a gallery called artspace. i think like 800 people came to the show. it seemed like a big deal to me at the time. it was brent loverdi, el kamino, pat berrann, matt adamson, brian maltby, and a bunch of other friends that we had been doing house art show parties with for a while. i think the oldest artist in the show was like 25. it's a photo of a bunch of the very first robots that i did. i painted 63 of them on scraps of paper and laid them out on the floor. i sold them for ten dollars a piece.

We finished the wall at 349 metropilotan a few days ago! stoked. thanks johnerick lawson and reuel schum for helping. dedicated to Rammellzzee and Harvy Pekar. if you're in williamsburg go to 349 metropolitan and sneak into the condo somehow if you want to see the mural. its in the courtyard through the lobby.

Colin and I hung the two paintings in the Jodi Arnold stores today. It went super smoothly. Tomorrow afternoon at the Brooklyn store they're doing a grand opening get together. It's on the corner of Hoyt and Atlantic in downtown Brooklyn. Real nice zone.

The nice people at Jodi Arnold asked me to make some paintings to hang in their stores this month. Here's one of em. It's 2x6ft. It's for their new Brooklyn store opening Saturday in Dumbo. Pretty cool.

Here's their site.

http://www.jodiarnoldnyc.com/

Fancy.

We're painting a big wall in Williamsburg Brooklyn right now. 28x47 feet! It's in the courtyard of one of the fancy new condo buildings... so it's not quite public. But once it's done it shouldn't be to hard to sneak in and check it out if you want. The owners we're very cool to offer me the wall. They didn't have to. It seems that they're not the average developer scumbags. It's good of them to reach out and incorporate local resources. And to be very fair about it too is also awesome. I'm stoked to be able to paint something this big in my neighborhood! Johnerick Lawson has been working like a champion with me to get it done faster.

Hi everyone in the world. come back to see what i'm up too. murals this summer. new paintings. life. fun.

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