The Art of Painting Map, Matthew Cussick Works [PICS]

Matthew Cusick is a gifted collage artist (who created works of art by combining many different materials into a distinguished artistic merit thing) from the Dallas, Texas. He created a stunning work of art from pieces of paper maps. Using the most basic tool, Cusick reorganized the entire network of roads, rivers and urban transportation systems to create intricate works of art that look like paintings and drawings if it is viewed from afar.

Cusick was from New York and graduated from Cooper Union in 1993, and did his first exhibition in two years later. Since then, his work has been exhibited throughout the world. Inspired by the topography, Cusick said that he likes ", catalog records, and manage information and then disassemble, manipulate, and reconfigure."



The following is a brief biography of Matthew Cusick:

Education
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, BFA, 1993
SMU, Meadows School of the Arts, MFA candidate 2012

Awards and Recognition
Meadows School of the Arts Artistic Scholarship Award, 2010
Visiting Artist Residency, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 2009
Nomination, Louis Comfort Tiffany Award, 2009
Bemis Center for Contemporary Art Residency, Omaha, NE, 2008
Claud Vance Memorial Award, Art in the Metroplex, Fort Worth, TX, 2008
Nomination, The Augustus Saint-Gaudens Award, Cooper Union, NY, 2008
New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Painting, 2006
Visiting Artist, The Cooper Union, 2005
Visiting Artist Lecture Series, Hofstra University, 2004

Solo Exhibitions
Matthew Cusick, Defacements: A Collection of Altered Book Pages,curated by Michael Corris, Free Museum of Dallas, TX  2010
Matthew Cusick, Cease to Exist, Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York City, 2010
Matthew Cusick, From What I’ve Read, Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, East Hampton NY, Summer 2008
Matthew Cusick, Lisa Dent Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2006
The Map Paintings, Lisa Dent Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2005
The Map Paintings, Kent Gallery, New York City, 2004 
Just a Kiss Away, Kent Gallery, New York City, 2000
Diamonds are Forever, Kent Gallery, New York City, 1999
Spiritual Kin, Paintings by Matthew Cusick, The Roger Smith Gallery, New York City, 1998
Matthew Cusick, Larvae Art Space, Brooklyn, NY, 1997
Domain, Paintings by Matthew Cusick, The Roger Smith Gallery, New York City , 1996

And here are the amazing artwork from Matthew Cusick:
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