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BRUCE JOEL CUTEAN OF THIRDSTONE STUDIOS
For the last 17 years, Bruce
Joel Cutean (aka Admiral Pluto Krozabeeep), has been the founder
and owner of ThirdStone Galleries, West Michigan's premier outlet
for innovative contemporary art in all styles and media. With
its former locations in both Saugatuck and Fennville, ThirdStone
has now transformed into curating shows of ThirdStone artists'
works in cities across the country and soon Europe and Asia.
Bruce's own work on the other
hand, is quite another matter. An artist since his early childhood
in Chicago, his work has spanned many different media and wildly
divergent (sometimes even disheveled), styles and methods.
In recent years, his work has
reflected a return to his Dadaist roots; often wrought with reckless
abandon, bizarre juxtapositions of elements, and incongruous
contexts. The provocative end results range from the sacred to
the profane, with silliness-in-extremis a frequent component.
Bruce's work falls into several
divergent and wildly divergent streams. His 3D assemblage constructions,
known as Assembloids™, are peculiar constructs of different
found and handmade elements using a broad variety of contexts,
materials and ludicrous colour sensibility. The 'bloid factory
at ThirdStone Studios has been busy in recent months, secretly
churning out a huge new assortment of visualvirtual meta-travesties.
His Assembloids™ have been
variously described in a variety of media as "Existential-Essential
Idiot Toys for a damaged millennium", "Depraved objects
of turgidly insouciant Neo-Dada Iconography" and, in at
least one review, "A thoroughly ridiculized, (and wildly
ineffectual), ritualized repurposed and highly aberrant version
of recycling." Often these works are rendered as "shrines"
to selected bits of our society's bizarre and fickle fascination
with endless acquisition and possession.
Between his bouts of Assembloid™
engineering, another chosen avenue of expression is his somewhat
abstract approach to his painting/mixed media work where his
demented/deluded colour sensibilities really move boldly (and
disturbingly), to the fore.
Bruce's curated ThirdStone Gallery
group shows shows will resume in the Autumn of 2012 in a variety
of locations. In addition, a new venture, his ThirdStone Studios
Gallery (featuring just his own Assembloids and paintings), will
open in his downtown Fennville studio in the Summer of 2012
Contact: artmonster@thirdstoned.com
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