Limbo

Limbo -2011-13 narrative works on paper- Six individual drawings connected in vertical pairs.
The Limbo drawings use graphic, narrative, form to explore a place that is between here and there, where memory and myth meet.

Limbo, If you close your eyes, maybe they won't see you-
The Light is invisible until...96 x 66 inches

Limbo - "I can't get back the same way I got here"
"Like a place I had known before"

mixed media on paper 96" x 66"

Limbo: Hanging Around-
This Fire Will Only Cleanse, 96 x 66 inches

Limbo 1- "If you close your eyes, maybe they won't see you" - mixed media on paper 48" x 66"

Limbo 2- "The light is invisible" mixed media on paper 48" x 66"

Limbo 3- "I can't get back the same way I got here" mixed media on paper 48" x 66"

Limbo 4- "Like a place I had known before" mixed media on paper 48" x 66"

Limbo 5- "This Fire will only cleanse- mixed media on paper 48" x 66"

Limbo 6- "Here for Now" mixed media on paper 48" x 66"

Monarca- Pencils, Ink, Watercolor on Watercolor Paper 50 x 100 inches. 2024

Universechild

Universechild 2004-7
“ James Pustorino synthesizes science fiction, comic books, Abstract Expressionism and psychedelic art, all in the service of approximating the profound mystery of existence. A mythic narrative about a being born into space, where he struggles to understand his surroundings and purpose. It's the sort of existential crisis everyone inevitably faces, but Pustorino translates that mental anguish into physical upheaval, as this particular being is born, like a star, in outer space, amid planets and darting rockets. “
- John Motley, The Oregonian.

Universechild 1 It took us much longer than we thought.
24" x 36" pencils and acrylics on paper

Universechild 1 part 2 Into the Universechild 24" x 36"pencils and acrylics on paper

Universechild 2 We could have anything we wanted and everything we imagined would become real, so we no longer wanted anything. 48" x 36"pencils and acrylics on paper

Universechild 3 Everything here is alive and everything is here
48" x 36"pencils and acrylics on paper

Universechild 4 We thought it would be wonderful
36 x 48" pencils and acrylics on paper

Universechild 5 Eternity of empty space
36 x 48" pencils and acrylics on paper

Limbo 4- "Like a place I had known before" mixed media on paper 48" x 66"

Universechild 6, Never shoot a gun in outer space 36 x 48" pencils and acrylics on paper

Universechild 7 No Time 36 x 48" pencils and acrylics on paper

Limbo 6- "Here for Now" mixed media on paper 48" x 66"

Universechild 9 Sometimes you know you are dreaming and you try to change the dream into something better, something more perfect
pencils and acrylics on paper 48x36"

Universechild 10 Will the City pay for this? pencils and acrylics on paper 48x36"

Universechild 11 Planted like seeds in a star
pencils and acrylics on paper 48x36"

Universechild 12 What will we tell his mother? pencils and acrylics on paper 48x36"

Limbo

Limbo -2011-13 narrative works on paper- Six individual drawings connected in vertical pairs.
The Limbo drawings use graphic, narrative, form to explore a place that is between here and there, where memory and myth meet.

Limbo

Limbo -2011-13 narrative works on paper- Six individual drawings connected in vertical pairs.
The Limbo drawings use graphic, narrative, form to explore a place that is between here and there, where memory and myth meet.

LIMBO one into the

Bad Gardeners

2001-3
The Follies and the Bad Gardeners are cultural commentary works that follow my earliest printmaking works in college. I started these series immediately after September 11th, 2001 as a way of responding to the shock of the attack on New York, Pennsylvania and DC- all in places I lived or had lived close to, and the fear and war that followed. The idea of the frieze, the wide strip came from comic strips as well as ancient imagery. The connection to the ancient or the mythic is important, in that it alludes to the fallible nature of mankind that never changes and never really learns. The myths tell us that each of us must learn the same lessons all through history and unless we learn from history and wisdom we will be doomed to repeat the same errors as the people who have gone before.
The imagery draws from works by Salvador Dali, Goya, El Greco, Raphael and others, including the Dr. Suess story about the empty pants.