Tad Jusczyk is an artist, architect, and the founder of the multi-disciplinary practice, Archiphernalia, in Exeter, New Hampshire. Tad's work has been widely published, awarded, and exhibited around the world. He has taught graduate design courses at the Boston Architectural College, and been a frequent guest critic at design schools in New England, including MIT, the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Northeastern University, and the Wentworth Institute of Technology.

Born in Nova Scotia to academic parents, Tad's family never settled down for long in one particular place, which compelled him to develop the skills to rapidly take in the nuances of his various surroundings. An eye surgery early in life left him without optical depth perception, forcing him to rely on perspective and other visual cues to make his way through the world. This led to a lifelong drive to explore the nature of spacial relationships, and the translations between three-dimensional and two-dimensional space.

In architecture school, Tad became more and more interested in the drawings and renderings that illustrated his ideas. Slowly, he began to imagine the interactions that could take place within his building designs, as though he could climb inside his drawings to observe from the inside. This obsession led him to create graphic novels to illustrate the encounters he imagined taking place in these spaces, and eventually led to his current work, through which these imagined encounters and interactions are compressed to single images.

Tad’s visual art is primarily composed of photographic collages that ride the line between the real and the imagined. Constructed from fragments of photographs that he slices, rearranges, and recomposes, he creates alternate realities that play with the dichotomies of fact vs. fiction, history vs. memory, façade vs. interior, and three-dimensional space vs. two-dimensional images.

Tad graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Brown University, and a master of architecture degree from MIT.

For more information, check out Archiphernalia.

“Collages make up a large portion of my work. I am particularly drawn to the medium because to me, each of the found images that make up a piece carries its own baggage. It contains embedded associations, fragments of memories, and emotional signifiers, which are reattached in unique ways. Photographs are removed from their contexts, disassembled, re-imagined, and recomposed to illustrate alternate realities. Viewers bring their own histories and associations, and are encouraged to draw connections from their memories and experiences.”