DON PABLO PEDRO

Don Pablo Pedro, (b. 1986, Florida) lives and works in New York City. His contorted, hermaphroditic figures explore sexual angst and gender identity through the lens of religious idolatry. While recovering from an Inguinal Orchiectomy, or removal of his left testicle due to twisting and subsequent necrosis, Pedro was bed-ridden and began to use pen, watercolors, and acrylic on the hospital sheets he lay in. This led to a use of muslin as a medium, a cloth most commonly used for clothing mockups, similar in look and feel to bed sheets. Don Pablo Pedro currently utilizes a Thangka style on linen, working through the relationships, successes, and failures of a pawn in the contemporary art environment. Pedro’s new work reveals the ugliness of self-loathing masked by a blissful public persona where the desire to prove yourself to your own inner demons comes to life, taunting players acting out the artist’s inner tragedy on a public stage.                 -courtesy of the artist

Work by Pedro will be available soon. Please contact creative@brooklynfireproof.com to be alerted when the work is online.

Recent work by Don Pablo Pedro: