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Nina Pandolfo

Nina Pandolfo Born in Tupa, Sao Paulo in 1977, Nina Pandolfo  is noted as one of Brazils most significant graffiti artists. She is the youngest of 5 girls. When she was about 3 years old, her mother began noticing her artistic ability and continued to support and encourage her drawings and paintings. In 1992 at the age of 12, she began tagging the streets of Brazil. She later gained notoriety and joined a group of artists that would soon lead the movement of transitioning graffiti to galleries and museums. Her work later moved from the street to the gallery. Nina's art is known for being very colorful, feminine, and surreal with delicate features. Her subjects are enchanting and alluring with big eyes and large, childlike features. There is a sensual nature to her subjects, merging adult and childish themes, with richly embedded symbolism, her work is open to multiple interpretation. Her work is intended to show the world that we can stop to pause, breathe, and live life simply, with more wonder and sincerity.

Work

Nina's most recent work, "Little Things for Life" is Pandolfo's debut solo exhibition on the Rivington street wall located on the Lower East Side in New York City. The mural will be visible until the end of the year. Since 2014, Rivington Wall, located between Bowery and Chrystie Streets, is a project that invites selected artists like RETNA, Olaf Breuning, Andrew Poneros, and Pryce Lee to intervene, regularly creating new murals and transforming the personality of this Rivington street block. In addition to the mural across the street, her work is also featured at Coburn Projects Lower East Side gallery. It is inspired by the lightness and beauty of simplicity along with the refined perception of small details that one experiences in everyday life. "It is about the little details, little things that sometimes pass unnoticed in our life, although it is often in these small details where we find and recognize the joy, peace or even a moment of purity" the artist states. Nina seeks to counter the modern day grind and the stress of modern life. Speaking with the artist, Nina reminds us that " We often forget how beautiful it is to lie in the grass, looking up into the moving shapes of a treetop. During childhood these things make us wonder and transform the day in a special way but later on we often disregard or leave them aside."

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