"Newspaper sculptor Will Kurtz discovers New York and his creative side after 50"
Those who don’t know any better would probably think Will Kurtz was just another young, emerging artist from Brooklyn.
After all, his debut exhibition at the Mike Weiss Gallery in Chelsea not only has a provocative title, “Extra F***ing Ordinary” and the tech-savvy concept of sculpting people whose photos he secretly took with his iPhone on the streets of New York, but Kurtz’s art emanates from his studio in Bushwick, the epicenter of the post-Williamsburg hipster artist set.
But Kurtz is in fact a gray-haired, 54-year-old former landscape architect from Flint, Mich.
