In Synthesizer (2025), discarded synthetic lighting acetates and organic matter are layered directly on a flatbed scanner to construct luminous spatial fields. Amber and red tints anthropomorphize the compositions, evoking immersion in bodily fluids. The resulting forms recall both x-ray imaging and cinematographic stills, oscillating between interiority and spectacle. Some elements remain legible - flowers reminiscent of 17th-century Dutch still-life painting - while others dissolve into ambient, atmospheric matter. This series emerges from an ongoing preoccupation with the body’s cellular and circulatory systems and with the inseparability of the organic and synthetic within contemporary life. Living with a long-term condition requiring life-sustaining hormonal therapy, Kuzmicz incorporates an additional synthetic hormone injection essential to his self-actualization. He finds kinship between these parallel treatments, imagining a bloodstream populated by drifting after-effects - residues of risk, indulgence, and survival - used to cope with the sudden awareness of mortality. Through this process, a tarnished perspective cycles toward recentering; illuminated chromatic florals surface through darkness. The large format chromogenic prints move from existential unease and spite toward biophilic awe. They propose that when the right treatment meets desire, a life lived at the edge of loss can be transformed into one of purpose. The works are mounted on poplar and steel using magnets, finished with high-temperature resistant, red bearing grease that visually lubricates the wood grain. This is a material relationship that exists in lithography and is a process Kuzmicz explores with image making as well.
Nykyta Alexander Kuzmicz was born in Edmonton, Alberta, and has lived and worked in Toronto for most of his life. He earned his BFA from OCAD University in 2015, with a formative year of study in Florence, Italy. Since 2025, he has been an artist member of Open Studio: a space for contemporary printmaking. Recently, he was included in the group show Nice Touch at the plumb. This is his first exhibition with Blouin Division Gallery. He will begin his MFA at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh this fall.