Janusz Kapusta at the Greenpoint Library, NY

Janusz Kapusta was born in Zalesie, Poland, in 1951. He graduated from the high school of Fine Arts in Poznan. Afterwards he graduated from the Department of Architecture at the Warsaw Polytechnic. He studied the History of Philosophy at the Academy of Catholic Theology in Warsaw. Kapusta is an artist interested in Mathematics and Philosophy.

His work ranges from small graphic forms, posters, magazine illustrations, graphic design, book illustrations, to set designs and painting. Since 1981 Kapusta has been living in New York and his works appeared in “The New York Times”, “The Wall Street Journal”, “The Washington Post” and others. He also contributed illustrations for “The Captive Mind”, published by The Limited Edition Club (1984), a book by the famous Polish writer and Nobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz.

The artist’s works can be found in the collections of many museums and galleries around the world (among others: Museum of Modern Art in New York, Museum of Modern Art in Lodz, IBM Collection). He has had many individual exhibitions and participated in numerous group shows.

In 1985 Janusz Kapusta discovered a new geometrical shape – an eleven faced polyhedron, which he called the K-dron (www.K-dron.com).

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