Sharing a video recap of Boston, Massachusetts-based artist, Nicholas Cordeiro, aka Deadcowboy’s first solo artwork present in New York Metropolis. Comply with @deadcowboy.artwork on Instagram. Shot and edited by Fitz the Runaway.
Artist Bio
Nicholas Cordeiro is a Boston-based poet, designer, and artist who has spent the vast majority of his skilled profession working in monetary software program consulting. For any inquiries about costs or commissions, you possibly can attain him immediately at [email protected]
All through his adolescence, Nicholas’ mother and father and siblings weren’t closely concerned in his life. Rising up was lonely and financially unstable, artwork was at all times an curiosity, however by way of a profession path, at all times an afterthought. Nick had no desires of ‘being’ something, monetary stability was all that he needed.
Nicholas is a First Era faculty graduate, who studied Finance and Studio Artwork at Boston Faculty. After Commencement, Nicholas accepted a proposal from Oracle and started his profession. Artwork was on the again burner till the pandemic hit. Throughout this time, he felt a rising urge inside himself to create. He started together with his personal streetwear model, Fallacious Manner.
Creating once more impressed Nick to battle with previous trauma, write poetry and most significantly, paint. Earlier than 2021, Nick had solely painted a handful of instances. His earlier works consisted of Graphite and Micron liner illustrations as his research concentrated in drawing particularly.
In 2022, Nicholas started portray daily, in an effort to sharpen his type.
INSPIRATION:
For the final 3 years he has labored as a software program advisor helping C-Stage executives optimize enterprise practices whereas additionally having some nice conversations alongside the way in which. In his artwork, he explores tales of affection, trauma and self-realization.
Most of his work is created from a stream of consciousness with correct intention and expressive stokes. A lot of his works start with a poem that’s ultimately painted over, starting the cycle of creation and destruction originally of every work.
His typical material is usually pushed by fleeting emotion, previous trauma, and self acceptance. His work is drastically influenced by Philosophy, Theology, and Transcendental Meditation.
Nicholas’ type may be described as a mesh between cubism and neo-expressionism that leverages undertones of surrealism and primitivism to depict a story. He’s impressed by Charles Bukowski, Jean- Michel Basquiat, Salvador Dali & George Rental. In his chaotic and infrequently emotional work he merges cubist ideas, poetry and neo-primitivism to render a novel type of his personal.
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