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Robert Wysocki is an artist whose work is an autobiographical examination stemming from his lifelong fascination with the landscape. Wysocki grew up on a farm in Northern California, where his understanding and love of the natural landscape took shape and is now manifest in his self-defined and self-created landscapes. His land art, influenced by the tradition of the German Romantic landscape painters of the 18th century, contemplates natural landform and the sublime. With the use of transcendent, dangerous, and spectacular materials such as sand dunes and lava, Wysocki conveys the power and force of nature as well as the inherent beauty and wonder of earth processes. A graduate of UC Berkeley, Wysocki received his MFA in sculpture from Yale University and is a professor of sculpture at Syracuse University. He lives and works in Upstate New York with his wife and two sons. Wysocki’s work will be featured in Scotiabank Nuit Blanche on October 3, 2015 as part of the exhibition The Work of Wind, curated by Christine Shaw.