Different stripes

IN HIS DELIGHTFULLY EXPRESSIVE and idiosyncratic paintings of streetscapes, clothing and interiors, there is a sense that artist Brenton Drechsler is always hiding in plain sight.

- HARRY ROBERTS

Appearing in multiple guises across his work and momentarily rupturing its loosely figurative mode with a flourish of optically charged abstraction, the stripes that recur in his scenes are at once a painterly signature and something he likens to a second self.