What Lies Beneath: Interview with Jane Bustin

Best known for creating her own abstract language through her intimate and minimalist constructions, often exploring traditions of portraiture with hard-edge constructivist painting – British artist Jane Bustin has garnered a great deal of attention with her latest series of work, “Pirelli, let me count the ways [Part II]”, her third solo exhibition with The Jane Lombard Gallery. As a response to the tyre brand's famous pin up calendar, Bustin explores how the mainstream feminist consciousness awakened to how the fantasies played out in the glossy pages of the Pirelli Calendar and the stereotypical imagery of women that has historically prevailed across all realms of visual culture, contributed to the objectification and denigration of women.