David Cordero, 24, is an artist at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He is notable for creating a smiling, life-sized sculpture of Barack Obama with a blue neon halo circling his head in Chicago in April 2007 for his senior show that has gained national and international media attention for its messianic likeness to Jesus.
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The work by School of the Art Institute of Chicago senior David Cordero, made for his senior show, has the phones ringing at the Chicago school as word spreads of the undergrad's work depicting Obama as a messianic figure. www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2007/04/02/sculpture_...
