The titular hunchback behind Hunchback Gallery @hunchbackgallery is gearing up for his solo show “M1ndG4m3s,” opening Thursday the 16th. Multimedia artist Travis Duda has been working on this exhibition for more than 4 years, processing the darkness, humor, and absurdity of his experiences and emotions through painting, sculpture, and collage, with found scraps, visual wordplay, graphic design, and stolen ideas. The 50+ pieces in “M1ndG4m3s” range in theme from love, loss, isolation, emotional growth, and love again, to political ire, depression and mental issues, and the challenges of having “original” ideas in a world tangled by intellectual property and copyrights laws.

The opening reception of “M1ndG4m3s” is Thursday the 16th from 6 to 9pm at Hunchback Gallery, located on the 2nd floor of 75 Webster Street. Look up “Hunchback Gallery” on Facebook or Instagram, or visit HunchbackGallery.com, for more.

Event description by Nikki Erskine (@nikkjagger) for @wicnpublicradio’s Culture Beat.