Anthony Padilla is a Native American oil painter based in Brooklyn NY. In his recent work, he explores the complexity and chaotic elements found in nature. Inspired by Georgia O’Keefe, Henri Rousseau and Wassily Kandinsky, Anthony’s work depicts minimalistic and overwhelming close-ups in the kingdom of nature where flora and fauna are sovereigns.
Anthony’s artwork is “to highlight the abstract and surreal qualities of our natural world by using the elements found in nature, specifically the jungle, as a means to do so”. His paintings are forbidden invitations to enter the glorious, yet hazardous, realm of nature in which humanity does not seem to belong. Self-taught, Anthony built his reputation through a meritocratic approach.
Padilla has had solo and group exhibitions throughout the US. You can find his mural work in midtown New York commissioned by the Hudson Yards Hell’s Kitchen Alliance, as well as in Fort Worth, Texas commissioned by the Trinity Trails Waterway Department. Anthony’s work has also been published in several editions of Artmaze Magazine.
