Where to buy...Kris Kuksi
A select exhibition in a private gallery
Kris Kuksi is a mythmaker. Taking cues from baroque sculpture, the Kansas-based artist creates mixed-media assemblages that draw on figures from Western myth but add elements of sci-fi and the macabre. In The Surrender of Helios, the sun god reclines amid a Hieronymus Bosch–like tableau of figures representing an array of earthly temptations. In Capricorn Rising, the astrological ram shares a zodiac wheel with what appears to be a Death Star space station. Each sculpture evokes the fragility of myth: Though the pieces appear to be made of wood or marble, close inspection reveals them to be assemblages of dolls, toys, and other mass-produced effluvia. At Joshua Liner Gallery, 548 W. 28 St., 3rd Floor, New York, (212) 244-7415. Prices range from $25,000 to $150,000.
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