Kris Kuksi is an American artist in the genre of Fantastic Realism.
Kuksi’s influences include the Baroque and Rococo periods. He has
described how he feels more in belonging to the ‘Old World’ and that his
artwork is very much a reaction to “the corrupt and demoralized fall of
modern-day society – a place where new beginnings, new wars, new
philosophies, and new endings exist.”In an interview, Kuksi named
Bernini, Bosch and Bruegel as some of the artists he admired and was
influenced by saying, “Nothing beats landscapes of hell, twisted
contorted figures, hedonism, and flowers sprouting from anuses.”[1]
