Summer 2023: Zonas: Regions of the Mind and Body By Javier Bustos
May 11 - August 4, 2023
Opening Reception: Thursday, May 11th from 6 to 8 PM
511 Gallery is pleased to present Zonas: Regions of the Mind and Body by Javier Bustos, which will open on Thursday, May 11th.
Zonas comprises four paintings and one multi-media work consisting of mirrors, LED strips, and wood, made by Javier Bustos between 2021 and 2023. Two of the paintings are abstract landscapes, one is a geometric, minimalist work, and one a set of two vertical paintings.
In You are Not Alone, two large horizontal "sections," or panels, of paint, stretch across the nearly seven-feet wide canvas, bleeding off each side. The two panels are separated from each other by a thinner horizontal band of white. Each section is filled with thick purple and white brushstrokes. We notice clear, almost systemic arrangement of the palette. The same purple and white are used, but in the upper panel the white forms an entire background whereas in the lower panel we only perceive occasional whiteness under the purple tendrils.
Javier Bustos's paintings and objects, though variant in their media, shapes, sizes, and palette, have in common their being predicated on symmetry and its variations, and its application to the exterior and interior zones of human life, from our eyes to our minds.
Javier Bustos, You Are Not Alone, 2021, Acrylic and velcro on canvas, 79 1/2 x 43 1/8 inches