Sydneé Bethel

Sydneé Bethel is a self-taught abstract artist born and raised in Pasadena, CA. Her works are a unique mix of recycled materials, metallic colors, and unique etching patterns. She paints from a highly emotional, intuitive place and draws inspiration from her heritage and life experiences. Bethel most recently collaborated with Pressed Juice.

In her paintings, Sydneé Bethel builds upon the use of pattern and color to explore her own emotion and sense of self within the work. Rooted in the process, her canvases become sites of self-discovery. “I’m an old soul,” Bethel said on a recent studio visit, “and I try to include those past senses of self, that knowledge beyond this singular life to my paintings.” Guided by a synesthetic response to music, the resulting works become portraits of energy – either self-portraits or constructed queer love stories that manifest as abstract paintings. The resulting works yield abstract, interdimensional realities filled with color and hieroglyphic mark making.