Anibal Padrino; born in the Bronx, New York in the early 1970s and currently lives and works in Long Island City, at the now famous Crane Street Studios. After completing a half semester of academic art education at the School of Visual Arts he was voted “Most Valuable Painter,” May 10, 1991. He graduated with honorary masters degree in ironic bachelor of fine arts and entertainment, 1999.

He is best known for his monumental body of work, including more than twenty canvases and countless drawings, created during a dynamic and sensational period (1999-2004). Within those canvases several themes emerged. Among the most aggressive were paintings and images that spoke not only of the quality of urban daily life but of the parallel existence of language and perception.

Padrino’s work functions much like a wordsmith’s: his pieces demand to be read as much as they are seen. Padrino’s technical leanings most utilize form, symbolism, iconography and the “painted word” as the key elements to his compositions. These words and images are loaded with a synergy all their own. Padrino is able to translate a raw display of emotion into a diction one can only describe as “a cool detachment.”

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