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UNKNOWN 001 – etching

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Nathaniel Bustion
Born: ?

Each generation has a few, relatively rare individuals whose creative visions and works can make of an era what it finally becomes. Nathaniel Bustion is among such individuals. His creativity has been consistently aligned with the vital forces in the arts during the sixties through the nineties. His every accomplishment has been nothing less than an universal awareness of Africa, Asia, Europe, South America and North America. Your first encounter with Nathaniel Bustion through his art leaves you with an extraordinarily profound sense of beauty. Not beauty in the popular sense, the superficial, but a deeper inner realization that what you have experienced is at once a totally revolutionary expression, and yet older than history.

He overpowers your senses. He teases your curiosity and then politely destroys all the clichés that have crept into your consciousness over the centuries of “civilization”. His work has a space and time all its own, but more importantly it possesses a feel that compels you feet-first into the future....with a rush! Much like a fine wine, it consumes you. You find yourself lingering forever on the edge of something spiritual that inexplicably pulls its strength from the sweat, the joy, the sorrow, the rhythm, the fear, the discoveries and the heartbreaks of reality. In an age when so many are lost in a maze of appointments and schedulings, Nathaniel’s work is timeless, it sets you free… almost. You have to go back for more.

 
Education:
Otis Art Institute, M.F.A. Also studied at Colorado State, Belgium-Antwerp Academy. Workshops at Ife University, Nigeria.
 
Exhibitions:

Pasadena Society of Artists
2002 April 6-June 16
75th Annual Diamond Jubilee Exhibition,Pasadena Historical Museum, Pasadena CA

 
Organizations:
Pasadena Society of Artists
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Known Works:
UNKNOWN 001, thumbnail of an etching by Mildred Bryant Brooks  

C 1930

The Brownstone Series 64
30" x 24" x 4" – stoneware and resin

Courtesy of the artist for the 2002 75th Annual Diamond Jubilee Exhibition,Pasadena Historical Museum, Pasadena CA

 
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Biographic Information provided by the artist and from the Pasadena Society of Artists Membership Roster