Buddy Nestor

Delanco, NJ , U.S.A

Painter

Represented by Cabinodd Gallery, Netherlands

http://www.cabinodd.com

Artist Bio

Buddy was born and raised in Collingswood, New Jersey, a suburb of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  He was a Latch-Key Kid during the birth of cable TV.  This led to endless hours in front of the television, watching movies and drawing.  He gravitated toward strange cult and horror films.  As a skateboarder in the late 80’s and early 90’s, he was exposed to Punk, Indie, and Heavy Metal music.  In 1997, after the birth of his son, Buddy decided to teach himself to paint.  In 1999, he traveled around the world on an aircraft carrier and painted every day.  This was critical in his development as an artist.  Presently, he drinks beer and paints in his basement. 

“My latest series of paintings are portraits of female artists.  These physical and psychological images are my attempt to capture the true nature of humanity.  They are spiritual X-Rays.  The models that I use in my work are all beautiful women.  However, there is nothing beautiful about the portraits I create.”   

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 "I consider Buddy Nestor to be one of the most radical and revolutionary of artists willing to experiment and push the envelope. The Art of Buddy Nestor has been categorized as... "grotesque" art, which can be recognized as a subgenre of Dark Art and Dark Surrealism, but with Buddy's work, its more of an "investigation" into the arena of discerning beauty, according to the terms and parameters set forth by Buddy. He strives for an antagonistic form of dissolving humans with a demand that is put forward onto us (the viewers) to characterize the human as an artificial and dissoluble semblance of extreme disintegration that holds its own credibility as FINE ART of the Highest Degree. This is the reason why I myself, champion the drive of Buddy Nestor to radicalize the very essence (and to question) what is beauty, and for that desire,
I do praise him as one of the most original artists working today!!!!!"

-Keith Wigdor www.surrealismnow.com

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"Nestor’s series of paintings titled “Every Girl Goes to Hell” are brazen evocations of the roiling darkness within his subjects. Their superficial personas are fearlessly striped away as he beckons their deepest sorrows, dread and malcontent to pour forth. He simultaneously contrasts these visceral glimpses with graceful line work, shading and an almost hypnotic visual flow. Consequently, each portrait seems to pulse, it’s essence both oozing and surging forward into the viewer’s subconscious.

It would seem his paintings are not simply portraits of others, but they are in many ways, mirrors of ourselves. Like most horrific truths that are eloquently captured, Nestor’s images are hard to shake from memory."

-Stacey Ransom www.held4ransom.tumblr.com