911 Sandro Nigrelli

number 911
What makes me, me is that I am a first generation child of immigrant parents. They emigrated from southern Italy, Calabria. I grew up in Brooklyn, born, raised and lived most of my life there, also being a Brooklynite helped shape me, I grew up listening to NYC radio and early on I pursued being a disk jockey for some time in my early twenties. Musically I felt a sort of kinship and connection with other disc jockeys with whom I readily identified.
But with visual art that was more of a personal journey which required more intrspection and effort to break that mold of it being more cathartic and internal. While in college at C.U.N.Y. I took many fine arts courses focusing in painting and sculpture and also at the art students league of new york.
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