MINIATURE OF BODEGA WITH ICEBOX RECALLS NEW YORK CITY AND 90S HIP HOP  

Brooklyn-based artist Danny Cortes creates intricate miniatures of iconic New York City places and objects that speak to a loving nostalgia for the artist's own childhood haunts and the early 1990s. What began as a creative hobby during the COVID-19 pandemic soon became a way to share the vanishing version of his beloved city with a wider audience thanks to social media. His miniatures include mailboxes, lampposts, Mister Softee trucks handball courts, newsstands, storefronts, and as represented in the current lot, the iconic New York City bodega complete with an exterior icebox.