Commodore

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Originally born in Rural Portugal, Commodore’s family emigrated to the Urban Metro of Newark NJ at an early age. From an early age, he took to the visual arts and aimed to understand how to use all the possible mediums available.

Then came the age of digital. Commodore spent the first 2 public decades of the internet learning how to master the digital arts. His work earned him 2 Webby Awards and a list of digital awards and accolades for his creations in digital graphic design. Even though the new digital ecosphere offered him new challenges, Commodore longed to return more ‘traditional arts’.

Commodore started to notice the wild colors decorating various urban cities and delved into the studying the art of Graffiti subculture. What particularly caught his attention were pieces done with the use of stencils. He quickly delved into the art of papercutting as stencil art required more time in preparation before application. He soon realized certain limitations in the current methods of stencil making and aimed to break beyond them.

This self-journey has led him to create a newer format of stencil creation that allows him to produce more vibrant stencils that are not limited by the paper medium they start from. His new method allowed him to easily transport new works to various cities where he leaves a little example of his work hidden within the urban walls of various metros.

While Newark has been his home town, Commodore has migrated to the south and west coast for short periods of time before returning to the ‘Brick City’ which he currently resides. His latest art-journey has led him to combine modern idioms with classical pre-80s comic art in a variation of the works of Roy Lichtenstein.