Nathan Cordero

In Remembrance

This page honors the late Nathan Cordero. He was a prolific artist, metal detectorist, collector of unique treasures that told stories of the past, gold miner, fisherman, and friend to one and all no matter your age, race, religion or social status.

Cordero was born in Woodland, California in 1975, and except for a brief sojourn in New York, spent his adult life in and around Sacramento. In 2008 Nathan received the Visions of the New California Award, granting him a one month residency at the prestigious Djerassi Resident Artist Program in Woodside, California. He had one person shows at both the Kondos Gallery at Sacramento City College, and the Nelson Gallery at UC Davis, and participated in many other exhibitions, including at the Di Rosa Preserve in Napa, Johansson Projects in Oakland, and Warehouse Gallery in Syracuse, New York. Nathan was a resident artist at Verge from 2010 to 2014. He passed away tragically in 2018 at the age of 43.

Although he never received any formal training as an artist, Nathan possessed the ingenuity and motivation to create his many drawings, etchings, and paintings done on scraps of plywood that he found in his neighborhood. Cordero’s work has elements of graffiti and hobo art, frequently uses snippets of text, and is representational, offering pictures of the everyday world. He used the most mundane materials to make art.

Impressively, Cordero produced over 20 years of artwork using excised wood, cut paper, and painted objects, with an emphasis on his obsession with language and rebus-like imagery.

Website: https://nathancordero.com

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