Pedro Pedro views his paintings as parodies of the still-life form. His paintings include fruit bowls, lavish spreads of food or clothes chaotically strewn about. He turns quotidian objects, such as a sock or a half-eaten sandwich, into spirited characters on his energetic canvases. The L.A.-based artist’s vibrant scenes evoke both the colorful, grotesque figurations of Peter Saul and the compositional considerations of Old Master painters. Pedro’s loose, humorous style still feels classical in nature, while everything exists in bold color the imagery remains soft in texture by applying textile paint onto unprimed linen. Pedro’s compositions of untidy things suggest the harried contemporary lives lived just beyond their frames.

He has had solo exhibitions at The Hole, New York (2021, 2020); New Image Art, Los Angeles (2018); The Zero Zero Gallery, Los Angeles (2017). Pedro has participated in numerous group exhibitions, most notably at Nicodim Gallery, Bucharest (2022); The Hole, Los Angeles (2022); The Hole, New York (2021, 2019); Library Street Collective, Detroit (2020); Left Field, San Luis Obispo (2020); Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica (2019); and Hashimoto Contemporary, San Francisco (2019). His work has been featured in Juxtapoz, Artillery Magazine, and Interview Magazine.