Open Studio: James Pustorino Nov 13-14 2021 3-7pm
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In April 2021 Fine Arts Gallery at SAINT PETERS UNIVERSITY presented James Pustorino: Sound of a Star
See selections from the series at Drawing Rooms open Studio on Nov 13-14 arts weekend along with the new 2020-21 series, Paths of Light.
James Pustorino is an artist, curator, and arts organizer and is Director of Drawing Rooms.
Pustorino received a 2019 Fellowship in Painting from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. His artwork uses graphic, abstract and realistic form to explore concepts of narrative and spatial/structural composition. Pustorino’s large-scale compositions engage concepts of language and pictorialization, through varying systems of mark-making and adopted ‘cultural’ forms, positive/negative space, concepts of unfinished/finished, as well as representational/abstract. His work focuses on invention of form and the optics of color. He works in thematic series, produced on various substrates and in various media that he compares to a band creating an album or cd using specific musical instruments or tones to create an abstract ”narrative”.
“Light, like sound, moves in waves, and as sound and light waves are both visible and invisible to us, our world is filled with light we cannot see and sounds we cannot hear. In the Sound of a Star set of work I am envisioning a system that describes the visible and invisible structures around and above us. The act of drawing a sound, and the concept of a star having a sound both stretch our comprehension and perception, but are not impossible.
In these works I am exploring building dynamic, 3-dimensional form working with both drawing and painting on a translucent film. A goal is to create convincing, volumetric form, making an illusion of space that is described by the parts, fit together in such a way that they exert force upon another, push and pull each other – so that they can barely be contained by the limits of the picture plane. They should be like the parts of a clock or a motor- pieces that are both coming apart and being forced together at the same time by the unseen forces of physics at work.
See the video below;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qg6DUmJZwxo&feature=emb_imp_woyt
See the original exhibt at
www.saintpeters.edu/fineartsgallery
See selections from the series at Drawing Rooms open Studio on Nov 13-14 arts weekend along with the new 2020-21 series, Paths of Light.
James Pustorino is an artist, curator, and arts organizer and is Director of Drawing Rooms.
Pustorino received a 2019 Fellowship in Painting from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. His artwork uses graphic, abstract and realistic form to explore concepts of narrative and spatial/structural composition. Pustorino’s large-scale compositions engage concepts of language and pictorialization, through varying systems of mark-making and adopted ‘cultural’ forms, positive/negative space, concepts of unfinished/finished, as well as representational/abstract. His work focuses on invention of form and the optics of color. He works in thematic series, produced on various substrates and in various media that he compares to a band creating an album or cd using specific musical instruments or tones to create an abstract ”narrative”.
“Light, like sound, moves in waves, and as sound and light waves are both visible and invisible to us, our world is filled with light we cannot see and sounds we cannot hear. In the Sound of a Star set of work I am envisioning a system that describes the visible and invisible structures around and above us. The act of drawing a sound, and the concept of a star having a sound both stretch our comprehension and perception, but are not impossible.
In these works I am exploring building dynamic, 3-dimensional form working with both drawing and painting on a translucent film. A goal is to create convincing, volumetric form, making an illusion of space that is described by the parts, fit together in such a way that they exert force upon another, push and pull each other – so that they can barely be contained by the limits of the picture plane. They should be like the parts of a clock or a motor- pieces that are both coming apart and being forced together at the same time by the unseen forces of physics at work.
See the video below;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qg6DUmJZwxo&feature=emb_imp_woyt
See the original exhibt at
www.saintpeters.edu/fineartsgallery
