Nando Leira

Mixed Media and Photography

A stylized drawing of large crowd of people. Each human figure is rendered in tans, yellow and orange or shades of grey. Some of the figures in the foreground appear to be very thin and even emaciated-looking.
A man in his mid-forties with short, brown hair and a tanned complexion and wearing a black t-shirt is holding a large digital camera with long lens attached. Behind him is the Chicago River on a very summery day with a. large crowd watching a guitarist perform and several boats in the water nearby.

Nando Leira is a Chicago based artist and photographer from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where he got his Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts. He also lived and showed his paintings in England.

Nando's work consists of a continuous series of drawings, paintings, photographs, time-lapse and 360 degree videos. He has expanded his art to take advantage of several materials and techniques, where original and repeated works both merge and duplicate into new finished pieces. The subjects are mostly social scenes and everyday life or average people’s portraits. The experimentation ends up as a methodical repetition to build a new reality every time.

Nando is always looking for new projects and the opportunity to collaborate with other artists and musicians.

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A digital painting divided into 4 equally-size rectangle spaces. Each space is a stylized digital sketch of a woman's head either from the side or straight ahead, and each uses a simple color palette of black, white, grey, yellow and a tan brown.
The Chicago sculpture "Cloudgate" – also known as "The Bean" taken from straight ahead in black and white. The shiny metallic sculpture is seen against a number of large skyscrapers. Several people are seen wandering around both under the sculpture and in the foreground
A stylized painting of a man and woman holding hands and embracing. The color palette is simple browns, black and white with light blue and yellow paint strokes dabbed throughout.