Duality
in Detail
BIOMORPHIC IMMERSION
A SOLO EXHIBITION BY
Ana Pedro
JULY 8 - JULY 31, 2026
OPEN RECEPTION July 11, 2026
Promenade on 6 at 1875 Route 6
Unit 111, Carmel, NY 10512
Revealing abstraction within realism, Duality in Detail explores perception through extreme proximity, where familiar subjects dissolve into fields of color, texture, and pattern. By shifting attention from overall form to detail, the works question how identity and recognition are constructed.
Drawing parallels with the human condition, the series reflects on the tension between what is shared and what is individual — the duality between similarity and distinction, surface and essence, simplicity and complexity.
Positioned between realism and abstraction, this body of work investigates perception through extreme proximity. By isolating texture, color, and surface detail, familiar subjects dissolve into ambiguous visual fields, transforming recognizable forms into almost unidentifiable compositions.
The collection challenges conventional modes of recognition, asking whether an object can still be understood when stripped of its silhouette and reduced to its sensory fragments.
A macro realistic perspective
“Crocus”
Pastel on Pastelmat
16x12”
Additional works
Alongside her ongoing fine art practice, Ana Pedro has developed commissioned portrait works for private collectors, independent creative projects and collaborative works across music and visual culture.
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Ana Pedro
Pedro had her debut exhibition at Arbor Gallery in New York in 2024.
The artist participated in several exhibitions and art fairs since that year in the Hudson Valley area, New York and Ridgefield, Connecticut.
Born in Leiria, Portugal, Ana studied at Faculty of Fine Arts, in Lisbon, from 2012 to 2015.
Since 2022, the artist has lived and worked in New York.
Ranging from human and pet portrayals to botanical observations, Pedro’s works are often created utilizing dry mediums as pastels and colored pencils.
For Pedro, beauty is not in perfection but in the details. The nuances in facial features, birthmarks, beauty marks, asymmetry, scars, discoloration of the skin… all the so called “flaws” are what makes us human and unique. That uniqueness is what compels Pedro to explore and discover in her portraits, it being a human, an animal or other living elements.
Pedro’s artworks have been acquired by local and international collectors.
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Education
Solo Exhibitions
Selected Exhibitions [juried]
Selected Art fairs
Professional Contributions
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