User:Moonfire tower

Bryce leVan Cushing believes that this culture has become too attached to physical items and external power. He chooses to smash the objects that people covet and convert them into recycled art objects.

As an artist, Cushing considers himself part of the third gender movement and is an art shamen in recovery from exposure to the American consumerism conspiracy.

In 1973, Cushing was born to a minister father and mother team, in Englewood, Colorado. He had a very unstable childhood, as his parents divorced when he was six. His father moved his family (Cushing and his two sisters) to rural Montana, where he took a post at a small church in Absarokee.

In 1986, at the age of 15, Cushing declared himself out of the gay closet. At that time, he was working on the Lazy el Ranch in Roscoe, Montana. The ranch was founded by Malcom Mackay and was the former home of artist, Charles M. Russell. Cushing also worked at the famous Grizzly Bar and Den, where he learned the value of hard work.

Cushing moved to Tucson, Arizona and attended prep. school at the University High School. While in Tucson he worked as a professional actor and was an active member of the activist group Act-Up Tucson.

In 1992, Cushing started experiencing visionary dreams in meditations and decided to go on a spiritual search to find his gay identity. This lead him to the activist group, the Radical Faeries. Bryce marched with them on Washington and soon after attended his first Radical Faerie gathering, in Short Mountain, Tennessee. He was introduced to founder Harry Hay.

Cushing worked as a model, a garden designer and a chef for 10 years in Philadelphia, while with partner/photographer, Peter Lien. He also performed and recorded with his band Karma Ex Machina, while working as a producer up and down the east coast. In 2000, after a break-up with Lien, Cushing moved to Buffalo, New York where he became an antique dealer and open his first shop. Under the direction of Andrew Gay of the Stock Exchange (Buffalo, NY), Cushing began doing clean-outs, buyouts and estate liquidations for several years. This is when Cushing discovered his inner talents as a sculptor and began smashing his over stock to produced his present medium's style.

He has shown coast to coast, starting with the MarK Bathen gallery in San Clemente, Blink gallery in Boulder, Warren Muller's bahdeebahdu gallery, the Niagara Falls Arts and Cultural Center and many other galleries and shows. He is currently operating his own gallery in Putney, Vermont called MoonFire's Tower.