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Xavier Nuez
- Sep 1, 2022
- 1 min
Highland Park Strong
Doing art festivals, you always get to see a community at its best. You find a gathering of people enjoying many of the best things life...
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Xavier Nuez
- Aug 31, 2022
- 2 min
New Image: The Gate is Open
I had had an idea for an image for some years: where a winding path would lead through overgrown, lush foliage. One day while on a walk...
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Xavier Nuez
- Aug 3, 2022
- 1 min
RV Museum Donation
My image "Lost and Found" has been a big hit with collectors. Amy Amdur - the unrivaled Queen of Chicago art festivals - has called Lost...
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Xavier Nuez
- May 4, 2022
- 1 min
New Image! Tiki Bar
I paddled through dense green waters, and drifted along turquoise blue streams. Through fields of wildflower, I floated as if in a dream....
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Xavier Nuez
- Apr 4, 2022
- 1 min
New Image! "Tranquility"
During the pandemic, I got into the habit of going for hour long morning walks. One day I reached a street corner where the residents had...
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Xavier Nuez
- Mar 16, 2022
- 1 min
PBS interview: Eye on the Arts
PBS crew in my studio. November 2021 This Wednesday, March 16, I'll be one of the artists featured in a very intimate and personal...
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Xavier Nuez
- Nov 24, 2021
- 1 min
Thank you for a fantastic year!
Between Now and Dec 1st (now the 10th!), everything is 15% off! (With a min $50 purchase) Use coupon code BF15 at check out Thanksgiving...
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Xavier Nuez
- Oct 25, 2021
- 1 min
Another awesome Light Painting Workshop has come and gone
As usual, my students created incredible works with just a few hours of training. Here are a few of their images. The next workshop will...
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Xavier Nuez
- Aug 24, 2021
- 2 min
Let's take a picture!
My latest image, Lost and Found, has been a real journey to create, but I love the result! The trailer is actually a rare cultural...
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Xavier Nuez
- May 25, 2021
- 5 min
Compton - Them and Now
I just finished the epic and traumatizing TV show, Them, about a black family that moves into Compton in 1953, when the neighborhood was...
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Xavier Nuez
- Sep 15, 2020
- 3 min
Makin Videos!
In the midst of this pandemic, and having to stay at home with extra time on my hands, I've started putting together short videos that...
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Xavier Nuez
- Jun 27, 2020
- 2 min
Diving Deep into Online
The current virus crisis has forced me and my wife Nikki, who runs our art business with me, to turn our sights toward the only game in...
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Xavier Nuez
- Mar 10, 2020
- 2 min
Boom!
Alleys & Ruins no. 153, Boom! (2020, Miami, FL, 8pm) My latest image was shot so very long ago... life was different then, simpler, less...
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Xavier Nuez
- Sep 17, 2019
- 1 min
Awards-a-palooza!
I win a few awards every year at various art festivals, and because I'm a marketing genius, I tell no one. But this time its different....
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Xavier Nuez
- Sep 12, 2019
- 2 min
End of an era: My last 2nd Friday in the Chicago Art District
2nd Friday Gallery Walk in the Chicago Art District After 9 incredible years, opening the doors to my studio almost without fail, every...
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Xavier Nuez
- Jul 23, 2019
- 3 min
Antique Toy World
Antique Toy World magazine took a liking to my recent series of photographs and interviewed me for their cover story. For the past 2...
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Xavier Nuez
- Jul 3, 2019
- 3 min
2019 Light Painting Workshop, Oct 19 & 20, 10am-2pm
2019 Light Painting Workshop – Learn how I do my night lighting – I’ll teach you the tricks that took me over 25 years to develop –...
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Xavier Nuez
- Apr 17, 2019
- 1 min
Florida photos
Passage I was in Florida for 7 weeks, doing shows and running away from the awful winter we had! And of course taking photos.... here are...
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Xavier Nuez
- Mar 24, 2019
- 1 min
Pegasus: fly without wings
I found Pegasus on a horse and cattle ranch outside Palm City, Florida. I spent an afternoon walking around the ranch petting the animals...
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