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Painting, Color, Design and Composition
Hugo Bastidas paints representationally in black and white, but his canvases play with our knowledge of the world. They provoke and tease us into looking at and reevaluating what we see and what we know by triggering the imagination and challenging ãconventionalä reality.
As Charles Hepworth said in an exhibition catalog, ãBastidas is a master storyteller where he combines the magical world of illusion with the severe realities of life, making harsh social comments. He is always questioning. His eyes seem to be looking all the time for truths we believe in that are not necessarily truths. He is exploring that wonderful gray area that exists between black and white.ä
Mr. Bastidas was born in Ecuador. He received his B.F.A. from Rutgers University and his M.F.A. from Hunter College, City University of New York.
His one-person exhibitions have been at Paul Robeson Gallery, Rutgers University; The Art Museum of the Americas; Hunter College; Nohra Haime Gallery (1994-2001); and the Courtney Gallery, Jersey City, New Jersey.
The most recent of his many group exhibitions were at the Nohra Haime Gallery; El Museo del Barrio (Voices From Our Communities); Momenta Art, Brooklyn, New York; Rutgers University (The Visual Image of Latino Artists in New Jersey); and the Sharjah International Arts Biennial, Sharjah, Arab Emirates. His work is in a number of public collections in the United States, Ecuador, France and Japan.
Mr. Bastidasâ awards include a 1990 Fulbright Fellowship, a 1992 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant and a 1995 Award in Visual Arts from the Colombian-Ecuadorian Association.
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