This week begins with one of the most epic events in art, culture, and bidding of the year. That’s right friends, I’m talking about Art Basel. And while some classical art lovers may be rolling their eyes at the prospects fo sharing their podiums with lovers of NFTs and internet art, us crypto enthusiasts are ready for the takeover. Join SuperRare in celebrating crypto artists whose work has added a smile, a nod, or even a moment of inspiration into our lives, and get ready to see them in Miami at the SCOPE event.
Fauves
Starting from his personal experience, which the artist has projected in his paintings, Fauves has decided to use the subject of cartoons as a symbol representing our body. A body often dominated and enslaved by our ego, in which all the elements and details exposed recall the extreme dissatisfaction to which the human soul is continually subjected in contemporary society. A story that becomes, in a metaphorical sense, the search for one’s superhero who in most cases hides in human weaknesses.
Isaac “Drift” Wright
Isaac “Drift” Wright is a United States Army special operations veteran who learned to cope with PTSD and depression through urban exploring and documenting cities from unseen perspectives through photography. At the end of 2020 he was arrested for his work, being subjected to four months of incarceration without bond as the government used both his race as a black man and his special military background against him. The story arrived on the front page of The New York Times on June 6th, 2021.
Jake Fried
Jake Fried (b.1984) uses ink and white-out to generate hallucinatory vistas, modifying and shooting the images over and over to create mind-bending animations that evolve at a frenzied pace. His work has been widely exhibited internationally, including at the Tate Modern and Sundance Film Festival. He has created commissioned work for clients including Adult Swim and Netflix.
Dave Krugman
Dave Krugman is an artist, writer, and the founder of ALLSHIPS.CO, a creative community dedicated to the idea that a rising tide raises all ships.
Cath Simard
Cath Simard is a Canadian-born photographer, digital artist and educator with an instantly recognizable style that meticulously blends reality with her own imagination. Rooted in an immense passion for the outdoors and wilderness, Cath mostly captures the world as little pieces of a puzzle and brings them together into iconic composite images that often leave her audience breathless as they question…
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