Exhibition will run from Thursday, July 14th through Saturday, August 20th, with a public reception for the artist from 5:30 to 7:30 on July 14th

Nathan Cordero, born in Woodland in 1975, and raised in Yolo, has been showing his work in Northern California for many years in such locales as Verge Gallery and Axis Gallery, both in Sacramento, as well as Johanson Projects in Oakland and 111 Minna Gallery, in San Francisco. This exhibition, titled "Are You Destined to Become Your Mother?", will feature his signature style of complex wall installation containing excised wood drawings, razor blades and other unusual elements.

"Cordero's work comes out of the San Francisco Mission School of folky, representational, and edgy depictions of an urban life style," says Renny Pritikin, Nelson Gallery director. "However he adds his own spin that local arts professionals can recognize immediately, with its inclusion of found texts and images of beer cans, cigarettes, and other quotidian stuff."

Cordero did not attend art school, but credits the late Troy Dalton, Sacramento painter, as his mentor. Cordero had the honor to be an artist in residence at the renowned Djerrassi program in Woodside, California two years ago.

For further images and information, please contact Katrina Wong at kliwong@ucdavis.edu.