May 5, 2021wicked thoughts podcast

Episode 28: Skye Nicolas, Post-Conceptual Artist

Originally published on fleirecastro.com, 2021 — preserved here permanently.Original

Fleire Castro interviews Skye Nicolas for this season’s Creators and Creatives.

Skye Nicolas is a Manila-born, New York-based post-conceptual artist. His work ranges from large format paintings, filmmaking, photography, video installation, public space interventions, sculpture, and street wear design.

He’s currently dropping cryptoart where he recently became the #1 top-trending artist on KnownOrigin on SuperRare. As far as we know, he is the first Filipino NFT artist listed on SuperRare, one of the top platforms for collecting and trading unique, single-edition digital artworks.

Show Notes:

Skye Nicolas blends socio-political commentary with elegantly composed amalgamations of vivid imagery and pop culture references through various means of precisely executed appropriation and witty subtextual conversation. In doing so, he explores the fundamentally potent tactics of Twenty-First Century marketing while revealing the systemic trappings of modern day consumerism as a way of life.

At the core of his work, Nicolas pinpoints the pulse of a living transmedia consciousness: a fully plugged-in and engaged technology-driven culture that engorges itself on mass-produced content and information.