Education
MFA – Massachusetts College of Art and Design
BFA – Pratt Institute
Select Distinctions
Residency Award, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Nebraska City, NE – 2012
Residency Award, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT – February, 2012
Emerging Artist Award, St. Botolph Club Foundation, Boston, MA – 2010
Distinguished Panelist, Blogpix Panel Discussion on Art Blogging – Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York, NY – May 25, 2009
Invited ongoing contributor to The Art-Tistics, an art blog published by Minds
Eye Art Moving and Storage, Boston, MA – 2009
Requested by artist John Morris to write the position paper for The
Blogger Show, produced through Digging Pitt Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA – October,
2007
Requested by artist Steven LaRose to write an article for the catalog
of his exhibition Portraits or Landscapes from the Uncanny Mist held at Kristi
Engle Gallery, Highland Park, CA – June, 2007
Community Advisory Board Member, Connecticut Public Broadcasting Network, Hartford, CT – 2006-2007
Artist-in-Residence, Museum at Lower Shaker Village, Enfield, NH –
Summer, 1992
Press
Shirley J. Gregory – Artist's Work Goes Beyond the Pale: New Exhibits Open at the McLean Project for the Arts – McLean Connection, January 26 - February 1, 2011, p4
Solo Exhibitions
The Inertia Garden – New Milford Public Library, New Milford, CT – April 14-May 27, 2012
The Atomic Overcoat (working title) – Northwestern Connecticut Community College, Winsted, CT – March 3-March 30, 2012
Shiny New Tomorrow - McLean Project for the Arts, McLean, VA – Jan. 20-March
5, 2011
Bill Gusky: Cut-Outs and Other Works - Dana Robes Wood Craftsmen, Enfield, NH
– May, 1994
Bill Gusky: Paintings on Maps -
Gillam's Restaurant, White River Junction, VT – February, 1993
Bill Gusky: Watercolors - Museum
at Lower Shaker Village, Enfield, NH – April, 1992
Bill Gusky: Paintings for a New Ice Age - Pratt Institute,
Brooklyn, NY – May, 1990
Group Exhibitions
Detonate: Chaos and Consumerism – Denise Bibro Fine Art – New York, NY – February 2 - February 24, 2012
Wee Works by Awesome Artists II – The Norfolk Library – Norfolk, CT – December 2, 2011– January 13, 2012
Crop Circle – Blue Horse Arts Studio – Watertown, CT – October 28 - December 1, 2011
Foundation on Parade –
St. Botolph Club Foundation, Boston, MA – October 25 - November 21, 2011
The Global Perspective: Understanding the Past, Looking to the Future – The Gallery at Worcester State University – Worcester, MA – October 20 - December 1, 2011
Cultural Crossroads – Associated Artists of Winston-Salem – Winston-Salem, NC – October 13 - November 23, 2011
4th Annual Juried Exhibition – Sylvia White Gallery, Ventura, CA – August 3 - September 3, 2011
Litchfield County Screen Project –
Various locations, Torrington, CT – June 30 - August 25, 2011
Instructions for Initial Conditions –
Parallax Space, Lincoln, NE – November 5 - 29, 2010
Shunpikers – School 33, Baltimore,
MD – August 7 - October 3, 2009
Lost Weekend – La Motta Fine Art, Hartford,
CT – January 17 - 24, 2009
R • E • S • P • E • C • T (artists on pedestals) –
CreateHere Collective, Chattanooga, TN – July 18 - September 8, 2008
The Blogger Show – Digging Pitt
Gallery, New York, NY and Pittsburgh, PA – November 10, 2007 - January
12, 2008
50/50, a traveling exhibition of new media objects curated
by Sue Berg and Daniel Buttrey Artwell Gallery, Torrington, CT – ArtSpace,
Windham, CT – ArtSpace, Norwich, CT – ArtSpace, Hartford, CT Nov 4, 2007
- Feb 25, 2008
Small Works- Digging Pitt Gallery, Pittsburgh,
PA – Nov 11, 2006 - Feb 3, 2007
Open Exhibition – Museum at Lower Shaker
Village, Enfield, NH – May, 1992
Our Pappy Show – Pratt Institute, Brooklyn,
NY– May, 1989
Inaugural Exhibition - Westfield
State University Gallery, Westfield, MA – September, 1986
Marlborough Community Arts Exhibit -
Marlborough, CT – June, 1984
Statement
My work brings together visual data from a variety of cultural sources: old TV cartoons, lottery tickets, internet memes, old candy wrappers, packaging, family photographs, decorative patches and print ads, to name just a few.
I paint elements from these disparate sources, as well as original elements, using a range of styles, from expressionistic to hard-edge, abstract to realistic, or in imitation of a specific industrial arts, graphic arts or international style.
The result of all this is that each of my paintings is a kind of knot in a massive multicultural multitemporal tapestry. My process enacts the hyperconnectedness of this era in which everyone is a cultural processor. We're forced by circumstance to gather from the elements that constantly stream in from around the world, to break them down and use them to build memories and lives and art and, to the degree that it's possible, a useful understanding of our place in the world.
Bill Gusky