This week Kansas-based artist Kris Kuksi opened his fourth solo show titled Revival, at Joshua Liner Gallery. Kuksi continues his use of ornate assemblage to create wildly complex sculptures that comment on history, life, death, and spiritual conflict. In the words of director Guillermo del Toro: “A postindustrial Rococo master, Kris Kuksi obsessively arranges characters and architecture with an exquisite sense of drama. Instead of stones and shells he uses screaming plastic soldiers, miniature engine blocks, towering spires and assorted debris to form his landscapes. More

Alexandra Levasseur (Canada 1982. Montreal based), painter and illustrator, studied iat Barcelona. Mixed media

IN DER TANNENSPITZE mixed media behind perspex, 152x152 cm 2008 SOLD www.husmanntschaeni.com

“What I've learned the most from using artificial intelligence to create art is the ability to explore new possibilities and maintain the desire to learn new skills.”

Paper artist and illustrator Hollie Chastain clips, layers, and stitches found photographs and scraps of paper ephemera to create her mixed-media collages. The Chattanooga, Tennessee-based artist repurposes old narratives and images⁠—in one piece, tuba players pop out of a library card pocket, and in another, two men tug on a string woven through a handwritten note⁠—providing a new story for each regenerated work. Chastain tells Colossal she began working with the medium in 2008. More