At 9e2 High-Tech, High-Concept Art About Living Inside a Human Body Right Now
by Jen Graves
Another piece did the same thing just as effectively but very differently: the performance of The Biology of Culture: Cue Signaling by visual artist Romson Regarde Bustillo working with dancer David Rue and the research scientist Jason Berndt. In this ingenious piece, what you'd have seen was an outer circle of people...
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Romson Regarde Bustillo was awarded the Seattle Print Arts Larry Sommers Art Fellowship in 2016. In 2017 he was co-recipient of the Garboil Grant established by the late artist Sue Jobs. An award that considers artists “…engaging audiences outside the aesthetic industrial complex.” He received Arts-Individual Projects Grants from 4Culture in 2018 and 2020 in support of his immersive installations and collaborative interventions. He is the recipient of a GAP Grant (2016), an Artist Trust Fellowship (2019), and an Artist Innovator Award (2021).
Secret Art on an Island
Romson Regarde Bustillo's Stunning Bainbridge Show
by Jen Graves
The art in the tall front windows appears to be part of the architecture. It's like a carved screen sweeping the full two-story height of this curved shoebox made of concrete and wood. Actually, it's three enormous scrolls of white paper, hand-cut into a circuit board as ornate as any mosque wall. The scrolls, hung from the ceiling inside, are cut into patterns of shapes that resemble Buddhas, or birdcages, or keyholes—or things you haven't seen yet or saw too long ago to quite recall. The cutout parts of the paper were left dangling, and in curling back downward over it, they cultivate a wilderness of moving shadows on the surface. The shadows crawl all day with the sunlight.