Hurricane Katrina/New Orleans: 2005. Triptych (2013)

Digital Painting on Canvas
Inkjet, archival
Triptych; 27.5 x 39 in each (99 x 68.5 cm each)
Ed. of 6; signed and numbered on back

// Selected Press: Hyperallergic and Journal and Courier.
// Artist's monograph [Open Access]

WHILE SUCH AN ABSTRACTION OF THE ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPH MAY SUGGEST AN ATTEMPT TO DISGUISE THE EVENTS THEY DEPICT BY MASKING THEM WITH AN ABSTRACT GRID, BENDITO’S ABSTRACTIONS REVEAL IN FACT A DESIRE TO RECONSTRUCT WHAT HAD BEEN DESTROYED AND FIND SOME INEXPUGNABLE ORDER BENEATH THE CHAOS.
– C. Dossin (Art Historian, Purdue University)