Gustavo Acosta

**Gustavo Acosta,** Metaphor, 2022, Acrylic on canvas, 43h x 43w in, *Private Collection, Santo Domingo.*

**Our Man In Boston** 2022, Acrylic on canvas, 54x54, *Private Collection, Santo Domingo*

**The Nomadic Circle**, 2022, Acrylic on canvas, 98x60

**The Waterfall’s Manifesto**, 2022, Acrylic on canvas, 54x54 in

**Sahara Dust**, 2022, Acrylic on canvas, 59x59

**The Limits of A Timeline Dust**, 2021, Acrylic on canvas, 72x60, *Private Collection, Santo Domingo*

**Gustavo Acosta,** Two Fifty, 2020, Acrylic on canvas, 28h x 28w in, *Private Collection, Santo Domingo.*

**Gustavo Acosta,** The Unity Of Things, 2021, Acrylic on canvas, 72h x 56w in

**Gustavo Acosta,** Wonderland, 2021, Acrylic on canvas, 70h x 70w in

Gliding, 2008, Acrylic on canvas, 67h x 67w in — **Gliding**, 2008, Acrylic on canvas, 67h x 67w in, *Colección Privada, Fundacion Chocolates Cortés,* San Juan, P.R.)

About

Gustavo Acosta is a Cuban artist born in 1958, in Havana, Cuba. He attended the Superior Institute of Art (ISA), and the School of Visual Arts San Alejandro in Havana, Cuba. He currently lives and works in Miami, Florida, United States. Acosta is best known for his paintings and works on paper that focus on urban architecture as a reference to society. Looking at Acosta’s trajectory, we can see how he has been portraying the different cities where he has lived, sometimes while living there and then again after having moved away. Acosta is an endogenous observer; he presents the cities as he sees them, through the places he knew or passes by daily. There is always an emotional intensity behind Acosta’s artwork, partially reflected in the artist’s brushstroke and partially in the viewer’s interpretation according to his or her own experiences. Acosta’s pieces have the power of inciting all kinds of thoughts perhaps because of their voids. The negative space works out as a positive one, and what is implicit becomes the most important part of the piece.

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