YELLOW FINE ARTS
James Pustorino
Space for the Soul
Limbo, I Can't Get Back the Same Way I Got Here
Pencil, Ink and Acrylic on Paper
96 x 66 inches
2014
James Pustorino is an artist, curator, and arts organizer and is Executive Director of Victory Hall Inc. a Jersey City based non-profit arts organization that operates Drawing Rooms art-space and other community programs. He has produced exhibitions and public art projects in Jersey City, Bayonne and lower Manhattan as well as directing projects for students and classes for developmentally disabled artists, and publishes books through Victory Hall Press.
Pustorino received a 2019 Fellowship in Painting from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.
He received his BFA from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1983, and began showing and organizing exhibitions in Pittsburgh and at the Butler Institute,Youngstown, OH, and the Columbus Museum of Art in Ohio. Pustorino moved to Jersey City in 1997. Exhibitions include Odetta Gallery, NYC, the Jersey City Museum, with solo exhibitions at Chambers 916 Gallery, Portland, OR, and at various New Jersey art centers.
Pustorino’s works will be included as part of a large-scale drawing exhibition at the MORE Museum, Gorssel, the Netherlands this fall.