The Rumble
William Gusky
Canton, Connecticut, USA
BIOGRAPHY
Gusky is a multidisciplinary visual artist and writer. He has exhibited throughout the United States, and his artworks are featured in many private collections. Gusky completed his BFA at Pratt Institute and his MFA at MassArt. Among varied distinctions Gusky served as visiting artist at the International Workshop and Presentation on Contemporary Experimental Art at the University of Kalyani, he was awarded a St. Botolph Club Foundation Emerging Artist Grant, he served as artist-in-residence at the Museum at Lower Shaker Village in Enfield, New Hampshire, and he served on a panel of distinguished art blog writers held in New York City.
ARTIST STATEMENT
My primary interest is the authentically arising artwork. It begins for its own reasons. It has a will and ideas, a psyche, all its own. Method and style would choke it to death, so I avoid them. When the authentically arising artwork shows up, I let it take charge. I let it choose its format and elements, and direct its own formation. I facilitate its realization until the artwork reveals a psychological presence, justifies its existence, and stops telling me what to do.
My inclinations come from a need to preserve art-making's intrinsic, organic relationship to humanity, in the face of societal, economic, and technological forces hell-bent on pushing artists to reduce art-making to the factory-like production of a kind of economically graded cultural fodder. I'm possessed by the fanatical belief that the art-making faculty originates from dimensions of existence that transcend our self-interested societies and institutions. Living as a conduit for that faculty, whatever the art form, is as close to the sacred as many people will ever get.
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