Purple and Blue - Acrylic on Canvas 36'' x 48'' Immensely talented and a highly experienced painter, PEDNÒ presents the viewer with a highly polished canvas whose subject is as alluring as its technique. His paintings are full of drama, a sense heightened by the use of high tonal contrast and chiaroscuro. Movement is key to the compositions. The figures in his intimate portraits are painted with smooth, luminous skin which seems to radiate out from the surface of the canvas, whilst across these smooth planes of skin sweep riotous brushstrokes of hair, striated, impasto, impassioned. The characters that inhabit PEDNÒ’s works are taken from his experiences of the people he meets every day in clubs, in bars, in restaurants.

Having worked as a hair stylist for many years, a parade of faces displaying every emotion, every facet of humanity fleetingly pass through his world.

PEDNÒ highlights this diversity, the movement, the bodies, the faces so that they seem to jump from the canvas and engage the viewer in a way that makes one forget that they are painted. He is fascinated by beauty and the hold it has—he intentionally seduces with his vision to draw in increasing numbers of people who relate in a powerful way to his work. An exciting newcomer to the New York art scene, PEDNÒ currently lives and works in Montreal.

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