Romson Regarde Bustillo
Long Stories
Long Stories is an exhibition of richly colored, intricately patterned works on paper by Seattle artist Romson Regarde Bustillo.
- October 2 - 30, 2014
- Opening: Thursday, October 2
Bustillo’s visual vocabulary represents an intermingling of past, present and future. The patterned works and series of portraits presented in Long Stories includes the print techniques of serigraph, relief and collograph. The works also incorporate mixed media. All screen prints and collographs were produced at Pratt Fine Arts Center in Seattle. The relief and intaglio components of these prints where carved and etched in Oaxaca, Mexico.
Bustillo uses visual language that is mostly non-representational; his open ended symbols, interwoven motifs, and fragmented elements create complex patterns that lend a meditative quality to his work. Heconveys personal stories that are also universal. In his words, “How and when we decide to pack, carry, unpack, and store our collective and individual understandings is what I am exploring with these works.”
About the Artist
Romson Regarde Bustillo was born in Cagayan de Oro City, Mindanao Island in the Philippines. He immigrated to Seattle with his family in 1978. Bustillo is an interdisciplinary artist working in printmaking, painting and installation art and active as a teaching artist. He has been an artist-in-residence at the James Washington Jr. Foundation and Pratt Fine Arts Center and recipient of several GAP awards from Artist Trust. Bustillo is well travelled, spending extended periods of time in Spain, the Philippines, Latin and Central America.