There have been many iterations of the person we all know as Nehemiah Cisneros, however proper now, in probably the most second, he’s most himself. If you realize Nehemiah, he’s a considerate, insightful and evolving determine in artwork who’s a filmmaker in a painters’ physique. We met him as AUGOR, the graffiti author who took over Los Angles within the late aughts with billboards and partitions that had been simply as influenced by comics, video video games and low forehead artwork because it was the historical past of lettering and monikers. He was recent air in a scene that was already stuffed with main artistic forces: SABER, REVOK, RETNA and the MSK crew members. Cisneros was the younger buck making a reputation, with LA in his blood and one thing theatric in his imaginative and prescient.
Throughout a couple of artwork faculties, going by way of dependancy and his personal “hassle” that we point out on this podcast, Cisneros discovered a brand new voice within the artwork departments of Santa Monica Metropolis Faculty, Kansas Metropolis Artwork Institute after which an MFA at UCLA. What that voice does is create a imaginative and prescient of his youth in Los Angeles and the aesthetic of a metropolis of narratives, actually in its DNA. Cisneros, even now with a physique of labor on its method to Josh Lilley in London, has taken a lifetime of affect from movie, arcades, metropolis streets, low forehead and high-quality artwork into a lovely and sometimes overwhelmingly dense sequence of work.
On this dialog on The Unibrow’s Radio Juxtapoz podcast, Evan Pricco and Cisneros discuss life after an MFA, his time working within the arts and finding out portray, how Mark Ryden influenced his early years and the way now he’s trying to Theodore Gericault, Max Ernst, gamer tradition and Black Exploitation movies for his new works. Off the the “goon cave”…
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Radio Juxtapoz’ Unibrow podcast is hosted by Juxtapoz editor, Evan Pricco. Episode 156 was recorded in Los Angeles on March 5, 2025 Observe us on @radiojuxtapoz
