Artist’s works ’sirs’ with inner pulse

LOS ANGELES - Jan. 11, 2015 - PRLog -- While living in Russia, Padrick Bentley became immersed in the sights, sounds, history, myths and legends.  Like the fabled Prince, he brought back with him the magical feather of the Firebird.  His attempt to bring harmony to the discord of our age is steeped in revolutionary traditions.

   Artist Bentley says about his artistic process, “I work at the intersection of two mediums – paint and digital. The works are complementary; the digital work is born from the paintings. The paintings are the visual representation of mind and the Noise, an aesthetic born out of the conflict between the two diametrically opposed forces expressed through color, texture and movement.”

   His Glitch paintings have an inner pulse like Stravinsky's Sacre Du Printemps with his "wish" is to open our eyes and senses to the world around us and join him in bringing about peaceful change. The only confrontation is done by his pallet knife and pigments as he attacks his canvases.

   Bentley's method is different, but Kandinsky's influence is clearly witnessed in his lyrical approach to composition and in his spectrum of colors. Camus' rationale helps create his assembled order.

   Born 1981 in Lubbock, Texas, Padrick Bentley says, “Each painting is an experiential development, there is no goal at the outset, each piece uniquely evolves over the course of several months as layer dries upon layer, square and line over square and line, and the colors and textures dictate the subsequent steps, a deconstructed, pixelated experience.” Beneath it all, according to the artist, “the photoluminescent pigments fluoresce in the presence of 365nm waves of light which give the background of each piece its own unique light only able to be seen under the right conditions.”

   At first you might be overcome with the intensity of each work as I did, but hopefully you will be absorbed by the beauty and the messages within.  Bentley says, “The paintings are the expression/experience of finding purpose and truth in the digital circumstances of today.” In more depth, he further expresses, “I feel we're faced with an overwhelming amount of data we must consume to stay relevant, whether that be socially or in the workplace. We're manipulated and homogenized by this necessity for consumption and increasingly alienated from ourselves.  There is a distancing effect on our humanity as we more and more experience life digitally.”

   I found nothing to be passive because I could immensely tell that each work was created out of passion; thusly as I did, to witness his works in person was an emotional experience, one viewers will also find themselves in a sea of profoundness.

    If you are fortunate enough to have one of his works gracing the walls in your special worlds, I can guarantee the environment of that place will be changed because each painting and GIF video is harnessed energy.

   You are invited to attend the Artist’s Reception on Thursday, February 5, 2015 from 6:00 to 9:00 pm at the MD Art Studio at 7952 West Third Street in Los Angeles, California. The exhibition officially opens to the public on Friday, February 6 and stays on view through March 1, 2015.

   Come take a journey with me into Artist Bentley’s reconstructed worlds that he deconstructs and gives them new order. I take much pride in the curating of this unique perspective and new dimensions in the Visual Arts.

   For more information and insight of the artist, see www.padrickbentley.com.

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