Today we’d like to introduce you to Danny Cortes.
Hi Danny, so excited to have you on the platform. So before we get into questions about your work-life, maybe you can bring our readers up to speed on your story and how you got to where you are today?
I started making miniature art. During the pandemic, we’re locked down – we can’t go outside. So the first two weeks in the pandemic it was, watching TV, cooking, and enjoying being lazy around the house. But then I got bored and I had all these tools and I was like: ‘What am I gonna do with myself? I’m going crazy here’. So I started working on miniature scale models about my neighborhood I started with and miniature icebox them a dumpster than the next thing you know I’m building bodegas apartment building and doing it and every day, it starts getting better. ” I fell in love with it.
Would you say it’s been a smooth road, and if not what are some of the biggest challenges you’ve faced along the way?
I went from cleaning bathrooms and a Homeless shelter in Brooklyn to selling my art at Sothebys. What started as a hobby soon became my full-time job, my pieces being sold for thousands of dollars to rappers and at Sotheby’s prestigious auction house.
“We are adults, but we never stopped being kids at heart”.
Thanks – so what else should our readers know about your work and what you’re currently focused on?
I’m a Miniature Street Artist from Brooklyn. I specialize in making NYC nostalgic pieces from mailboxes dumpsters iceboxes 1990s style bodegas. Very rusty, dirty full of graffiti tags and tons of stickers. I’m very proud of a lot of accomplishments but one that sticks out the most is my art being Auctioned at Sothebys. What separates me from the others is my ability to produce pieces at a very rapid pace. And I’m not afraid to take risks and being the face of the miniature art scene in NYC.
Who else deserves credit in your story?
I definitely want to shout out my team because behind every successful person best believes there’s a team behind helping accomplish your goals. I want to thank the CLLCTV, Neyda Garcia, Natequan Thomas Polo Pirata Rick Torres Clayton Paterson Nick Caribe for grinding it out to me day in and day out.
Contact Info:
- Website: Dannycortesnyc.com
- Instagram: Dannycortesnyc
- Youtube: Dannycortesnyc
Image Credits
Shutter Ed. (Edward Rivera)
