Gustavo Acosta
Bio
Gustavo Acosta is an acrylic painter who describes his work as, “an investigation into the human condition, utilizing as testimony not the individual, but the individual’s creative footprint.” Inspired by everything from American realism, architecture, and action painting, his interpretation of architecture as an emblem of power explores the social and political aspects that buildings represent. Each rendering is executed in a manner that parallels the fragmented nature of experience as we both move though, and are affected by, our constructions. Throughout this career he has developed an iconic language balancing vibrant, profound imagery of urban settings, at times intervened by a human presence or besieged by unruly nature, in compositions that conjure intense moods to reflect variances of reality.
Statement
For years I have thought of my work as an investigation into the human condition, utilizing as testimony not the individual, but the individual’s creative footprint. I have tried to integrate this human restlessness into a new referential system where symbols of ubiquity, reference and temporarily function as if we had discovered a surprising and inexhaustible archive of images, imitating the arbitrary procedures with which our psyches constantly distort, edit, and magnify. Reinterpreting at the convenience of our expectations or priorities creates an illusion; a visual fiction.
2.5 x 4m / 98.4 x 157 in
