The Gallery at LPR invites you to celebrate the opening of the art exhibition Cracks In The Shadows by Guzo Ozug on Wednesday October 18th, 2017. Click here for more info and RSVP.

ARTIST STATEMENT:

“All of my dreams just fell like rain, all upon a downtown train”
-Tom Waits

She is the loudest city in the world, sleepless and full of dreams. New York is where it happens. No other night is like the night here. A beautiful catastrophe of roof top parties, fairytales and the banality of unusual grandiose behavior.

The general interpretation of my work is focused on when life in New York feels like a movie all the while experiencing anonymity; disturbing fantastic situations of a gloomy abstract environment detailed with mortality decay and landscape. An ongoing struggle for living and the secret poetry stained with blood from The Cracks In The Shadows of the Fear City.

It’s always black and white here.The corrosion of culture surfaces from the city’s abyss like an artistic fore warning, heavily rooted in the gritty streets and subways like a beat movie, a fairy tale version of my own life. Cracks In The Shadows focuses on the creative invocation from my New York trance – like cinematic nightmares and head trips.

There is always mystery left to grace in “Rat Town”.

ABOUT GUZO OZUG

Born January 2, 1970 in Belmonte Calabro Italy. Lives and works in NY. Education: Illustration and Fine Arts /1994/Sheridan College, Toronto Fashion Illustration & Design/1994/Fashion Institute of Technology, NY.

Solo Shows:
2007 “Caligula” The Brasserie Frisco Gallery Toronto, Canada.
2006‐07 Resident artist The Brasserie Frisco Gallery, Toronto, Canada.

Group Shows:
2017 Pancakes and Booze Art Fair, New York, N.Y.
2016 Art is Pain Group Show, New York, N.Y.
2006 Commissions & Private Collection Commissions
Toronto, Italy, New York.

Awards:
1990, OAC, Visual Arts Award, Toronto, Canada.