Adam Bustamante - Original Art “Internal Inferno” 20”x24”

About the Artist: Lifelong New Mexico resident and enthusiast for punctuality, Adam Bustamante paints strange portraits. Following a decently decorated high school wrestling career and at the tail end of pursuing a degree in history/philosophy from the University of New Mexico, Adam turned to art as an escape from the soul-crushing minutia of normal life.

Adam’s current work maintains many traditions from his time as a realist painter; the awareness of effective texture and opacity as well as subtle shifts in temperature and distinctive layering to convey the turning of form and transformation of plains and surfaces. However, these considerations are now juxtaposed with explosions of fluorescent color, unorthodox paint application, foreign items wedged into the paint, as well as fragmentation and disintegration of his subjects. Moments of realism, impressionism, surrealism, modernism, and even a little vandalism are often interlaced in a single portrait.