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Tuska: The Human Condition |
 Click to view slideshow Throughout his distinguished career, Kentucky artist John Regis Tuska (1931–1998) was inspired by the human figure and the search for what it means to be human. Born the only son of 10 children to a Pennsylvania coal mining immigrant family, Tuska grew up in Brooklyn, New York, went to the High School of Music and Art in Manhattan, and earned two art degrees from Alfred University. He briefly taught at Alfred’s famous New York State College of Ceramics, but relocated to Kentucky in 1960, where he began teaching and creating functional pieces in the tradition of American studio pottery. In 1969, Tuska traveled to Rome to study the lost wax art of bronze casting and discovered the subjects that would guide his career. Although he maintained his connection to ceramics and other studio craft, Tuska the potter became Tuska the sculptor. Truly, his most inventive works are sculptural in form and figural in intent. Constantly exploring the interplay between the two, he was fascinated with the idea of the body as a vessel and the vessel as a body. Tuska also worked to create sculptural expression of form and motion. Approximately 60 works, including small bronzes, wood, ceramics, and works on and in paper, Tuska: The Human Condition surveys 30 years of the artist’s career and celebrates his unending versatility. At once reflective and introspective, the exhibition is a reflection of Tuska’s guiding motto, Non basta una vita. (One lifetime is not enough). |
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Available Dates Tuska: The Human Condition is scheduled to begin touring January 10, 2009.
January 10-March 21, 2009 Oct. 23, 2009-Jan. 2, 2010 Jan. 28, 2010-April 8, 2010 May 5, 2010-July 14, 2010 Aug. 10, 2010-Oct. 19, 2010 Nov. 15, 2010-Jan. 24, 2011 Feb. 18 2011-April 29, 2011 May 26, 2011-Aug. 4, 2011 Aug. 31, 2011-Nov. 9, 2011 Dec. 9, 2011-Feb. 14, 2012 For the most current information e-mail or call Ramona Davis or Raina Heinrich at 800-473-EUSA (3872). | |
