The Artist: Matty Furious Matty Furious joined SuperRare in November 2018, one of the first 50 artists to mint there. Matty’s art heralds the tokenized echoes of the early electronic device and Internet era. The blue screen background of ‘Shakespeare CHAN’ or the playing card computer poker hands of ‘Gamble Your Life Away’ take us […]
Unorthodoxy thrives in the suburban streets turned theatrestage by Ben Zank. The suited and booted protagonist is found contorted in and around the surfaces of suburban lives that 99.999% of the rest of the residents have never considered, let alone attempted. That is what makes Zank’s work sizzle. We are forced to ask ourselves ‘what is happening here?’ Tans, yellows, oranges and pine green are a recurring palette across many of Zank’s work.
Romantic Cyberpunk artist Danguiz, hurtles us into the future to ponder what it might mean to exist in the 22nd Century and beyond. With Blade Runner four decades in an our rear vision mirror, many dystopian aspects of its forecast have already come to pass. Yet there is hope within the scenes Dangiuz creates. The cat reminds us that we still care for the animals, despite an inundation of super-sized pixel displays.
Connecting humans together are the three words that speak most clearly when I hear the name Justin Aversano. He travels, spends time with the subjects of his portraits, and when the feeling takes him, snaps the shutter and preserves the proof on the blockchain. Aversano has inspired many photographers since Twin Flames to mint a well rounded, large collection of photographs that say more as a collection than independently.
The ironic smiley faced leader of gloom began on June 22nd 2021 with the release of ‘Brutalized Police Car.’ The rebellious spirit has continued through the release of the collection titled ‘Gloomerican Dreams’ with 489 co-conspirators participating in the on-chain riot broadcast on Gloomtube.
A sense of stillness is conveyed through how light dapples and composition directs photographed subject matter that questions our very urbane existence. The color in Cowboy Killers work is drained out of existence and what is left is a scene of apologetic paralysis.
Yongoh Kim represents a relatively recent phenomenon of available to cryptoartists live nomadic lives, earning crypto for the art to fund their journey’s.
Vinne Hager has refined his visual language into a series of symbols derived from a master set of 100 diary drawings made over a period of a decade. In these drawings lay the clues to a newfound strength to grow through art. Unlike the outward protest symbols present of Keith Haring’s work, Hagers symbols to date are more introspective.
The Artist: Daniel Calderon (DCA) The beginning of generative art on Art Blocks started on Day Zero. The first day of minting art as crispy ERC-721 tokens on the Art Blocks smart contract. Sure you can point to the first on-chain generative art, Autoglyphs by Larva Labs as preceding Art Blocks by 3+ years. You […]
CryptoDickButts (CDB), created by K.C. Green in 2006, is a satirical digital art project that has become a cultural phenomenon within the cryptocurrency community. The collection features 5,200 unique artworks. CDB challenges traditional art norms and appeals to crypto enthusiasts, highlighting the playful absurdity inherent in internet culture.