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Will Kurtz

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Sculptor @avantgallery, Miami., @clark_gallery, Lincoln, MA, @whiteroomgalleryeh, East Hampton, [email protected]

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Paper dogs made from newspaper and masking tape with an internal wood and wire armature. All collage. No paint by @willkurtz

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⚽️ Greatness. Suspended in time.

Will Kurtz’s life-size sculpture of Kylian Mbappé transforms reclaimed materials into a striking expression of motion, athleticism, and precision.

WILL KURTZ
Mbappé, 2026
Wood, wire, cardboard, newspaper, tape, glue, matte medium, and varnish
74 × 60 × 54 in

Now on view at Avant Gallery Miami Beach

#willkurtz #mbappè #fifaworldcupmiami #papersculpture #avantgallery by @willkurtz

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Messi
Will Kurtz

A life-size sculpture capturing Lionel Messi in the midst of play, embodying the intensity, movement, and focus that have defined one of football’s greatest athletes.

Wood, wire, cardboard, newspaper, tape, glue, matte medium, and varnish
65 × 41 × 50 in
2026

On view now at Avant Gallery Miami Beach

avantgallery.com

#messi #lionelmessi #worldcupmiami #willkurtz #avantgallery taken in Avant Gallery by @willkurtz

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Hello, everyone! It’s full throttle in Taiwan as we gear up for the upcoming debut of Repsychling: The Mind at the National Tainan Living Art Center. There is so much to share!

Meet artist Will Kurtz, our first invited artist, who has been commissioned to create a large-scale installation for the exhibition.

Pugs away! by @willkurtz

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INTIMATE MOMENTS.
The bedroom was never meant to be neutral.

Will Kurtz’s “Touch”.
Juliana Shaffia’s “Time for Me”.

Art Loves Design.

Avant Gallery + Home
Miami Design District

#artlovesdesign #willkurtz #julianashaffia #avantgallery #miamidesigndistrict taken in Miami Design District by @willkurtz

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Grover, life size sheep dog, wood, wire, newspaper,glue, matte medium, varnish, ink.
Will be at my installation at The National Tainan Living Arts Center. Opens Oct. 14, 2026. by @willkurtz

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Wagging Taills by Will Kurtz ... work in progress .

For the upcoming iteration of Repsychling in Taiwan at the National Tainan Living Museum, we commissioned artist Will Kurtz to create a fantastical canine wonderland.

Including, three tails wag in perpetual motion, constructed from upcycled newspapers and repurposed windshield wipers. Through automation, Kurtz transforms discarded materials into a playful, uncanny choreography, bringing movement and gesture to materials that have been otherwise discarded.

A canine world in motion is taking shape. by @willkurtz

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Will Kurtz brings Albert Einstein back down to earth—not as the untouchable icon of genius, but as a man caught in the act of thinking.

Seated with manuscript in hand, Einstein appears absorbed in the deeply human process behind ideas that would ultimately reshape our understanding of the universe. Kurtz constructs the figure from newspaper, cardboard, wire, and other everyday materials, allowing fragments of printed history and contemporary culture to become part of Einstein himself.

The result is both portrait and narrative: genius not as a monument, but as a moment—quiet, imperfect, curious, and still at work.

WILL KURTZ
Einstein Writing His Manuscript
Wood, wire, newspaper, cardboard, tape, glue, matte medium, varnish
48 × 23 × 38 in.

On view now at Avant Gallery Boca Raton

avantgallery.com

#willkurtz #alberteinstein #einstein
#avantgallery #bocaraton taken in Boca Raton, Florida by @willkurtz

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For our upcoming iteration of Repsychling at the National Tainan Living Art Center, artist Will Kurtz is transforming discarded newspapers into a collection of playful canine sculptures, giving familiar materials a new life, form, and purpose.

Created through an upcycling process in the United States, these newspaper dogs will make their way to Taiwan, where they will become part of an exhibition exploring resource circulation, material reuse, and environmental sustainability.
Through humor, imagination, and a whole lot of newspaper, Kurtz invites us to reconsider what we throw away—and what might happen when we see waste not as an ending but as a beginning.

Kurtz’s work has been presented at Powerhouse Arts in Brooklyn, Adelson Galleries, Queens Museum, and other cultural venues across the United States and internationally, and has been featured in programs connected to UNESCO and United Nations Climate Week. by @willkurtz

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