Gus Mazzocca
Professor of Printmaking
MFA, Rhode Island School of Design
gus.mazzocca@uconn
 

Gus Mazzocca was born in Boston, Massachusetts.  He received an M.F.A. degree in Painting/Printmaking from The Rhode Island School of Design, a B.F.A. degree in Painting, and a B.A. degree in Political Science from the University of Connecticut.  He has been awarded a Doctor of Arts (honoris causa) from the Akademi Sztuk Pieknych w Krakowie (The Art Academy of Krakow) His work has been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions at galleries and museums in Austria, Poland, the Netherlands, Germany, the Czech Republic, Italy, Japan, and the United States.  He has been teaching at the University of Connecticut since 1970.

“I continue to use the figure as a vehicle to create unfixed narratives that reflect movement, tension, struggle and celebration. The use of the digitally produced elements along with the more raw scratched and carved marks of the woodcut present a dichotomy that is ideally suited to these issues I present visually. “