THE GUGGENHEIM RACHEL ROSSIN

For the 2024 YCC Party, artist Rachel Rossin will transform the iconic rotunda into a hybrid virtual environment.

Feb 12, 2024

GALERIE: Rachel Lee Hovnanian

The Artful Life: 7 Things Galerie Editors Love This Week

BY GALERIE EDITORS

MARCH 6, 2024

FRIEZE: Zak Ové, The Mothership Connection, 2021

Presented by Gallery 1957

Wendy White in Resistance Training: Arts, Sports, and Civil Rights

August 19, 2023–February 18, 2024

Opening Reception: September 8, 2023

Sarah Meyohas’s Tech-Art Explores the Mechanics of Perception

The artist, whose solo show opens at Marianne Boesky gallery on May 16, uses technical wizardry to create art—all informed by her background in business.

by Julia Halperin

Photographs by Meghan Marin

May 15, 2023

Jewels from the Windrush: Get Up, Stand Up Now at Somerset House

Maya Jaggi June 2019

In a 1968 photograph of Michael X, the self-styled British Black Power leader, being interviewed by the press in his London garden, a baby crawls in the right-hand corner, peeking through the journalists’ legs. The shot was taken by the child’s father, photographer and film-maker Horace Ové, who lived in the flat below Michael X. His son Zak Ové, now an artist aged 52, is the curator of a momentous show on black artistic achievement from the 1940s to the present. As the archive photograph intimates, his angle on history is a privileged, if unusual, one.

Petra Cortright's digital landscapes blossom at Intersect Aspen

One of the fair's only solo stands, from Florida-based gallery County, features recent compositions by the Net art pioneer

Benjamin Sutton

1 August 2023

What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in July

By Travis Diehl

Installation view of “Rachel Rossin: SCRY” at Magenta Plains. On the ceiling, Rossin’s “The Maw Of” Screen 4, 2022.Credit...via Rachel Rossin and Magenta Plains

Artist Rachel Rossin Wants You to Reevaluate Your Relationship With Tech

BY ANNABEL IWEGBUE

For this year’s International Women’s Day, Cosmopolitan teamed up with 11 other Hearst magazines (including Esquire and Oprah Daily) and the Whitney Museum of American Art to amplify the voices of female artists, including Rachel Rossin. Her multimedia, multipart (actually, multiverse) projects are the perfect illustration of how it’s women who are defining, leading, and shaping the future.

From legendary dancers to kinky fauns: 7 unmissable works in the Parcours sector

Elliat Albrecht

Petra Cortright, green hill green light esprit de corps, 2023
Presented by Société (Berlin), with additional support from Foxy Production (New York)
Münsterplatz

In Venice, a Chorus of Voices From Africa

By Sam Lubell

Serge Attukwei Clottey, an artist in Accra, Ghana, has stitched together pieces of yellow gallon oil containers — commonly used in Africa to store and transport water — to form a surface undulating from the columns of the 16th-century Gaggiandre shipyards.

“This is what Africa is now,” Mr. Clottey. said. “It’s about using our own ideas, our own resources, to reshape our own country.”

Rachel Rossin: The Maw Of

2022

Rachel Rossin’s The Maw Of is a transmedia story — a narrative unfolding across multiple platforms and formats — that reflects on the ways in which our bodies and minds are increasingly merging with and altered by technology.

Paris's Centre Pompidou breaks new ground by acquiring 18 NFTs

The acquisition, the first of its kind by a major French public museum, includes works by Jonas Lund, Robness, Agnieszka Kurant and Sarah Meyohas

Dorian Batycka

14 February 2023

Spotlight Artist: Danielle Mysliwiec

Danielle Mysliwiec holds a BA from Wesleyan University and an MFA from Hunter College. Her work will be featured in an upcoming solo exhibition at C O U N T Y, (Palm Beach) in 2023.

Artist James Perkins: ‘land art was ripe for me to make a contribution’

Fire Island-based artist James Perkins transforms silk sculptures into forces of nature. Here, he discusses the future of land art, belonging, and living in a Horace Gifford-designed modern masterwork

25 MAY 2022 | By Michelle Sinclair Colman

SARAH MEYOHAS: 1ST DIBS INTROSPECTIVE WITH BITCHCOIN, SARAH MEYOHAS STARTED THE CRYPTOART CRAZE. SHE’S STILL INNOVATING.

By William Fowler

RACHEL ROSSIN: THE GUARDIAN: FOUR CREATORS SHARE THEIR DALL-E-GENERATED IMAGES – AND THEIR HOPES AND FEARS ABOUT AI IN ART

By Anna Furman

‘We are seeing a reflection of ourselves’ – Rachel Rossin

Pioneering Digital Artist Sarah Meyohas Is Now Represented By Marianne Boesky

BY SHANTI ESCALANTE-DE MATTEI

Meyohas first began incorporating blockchain technology into her artistic practice in 2015, when she debuted a project called BitchCoin. The token is now considered a proto-NFT, and it took on new relevance in 2021 with the start of the NFT boom.

Meyohas will also be a speaker at Art Basel for the “The New Patrons: NFT Collectors and Supporters” conversation on June 16.

June Exhibitions at No.9 Cork Street

Opening on 2 June until 18 June 2022, Frieze's Mayfair gallery

Canon! looks to disrupt the established biases of art, redefining our conceptions of what art might be in the burgeoning age of digital art and accelerated technological development.

You’re Invited: Rhizome’s 2022 Benefit Honoring Rachel Rossin & Julie Martin

Tuesday, May 31 at Bowery Terrace, in partnership with Zora

Rhizome’s staff and Board of Directors are delighted to announce that we will honor artist Rachel Rossin and Julie Martin, Director of Experiments in Art & Technology, at our 2022 Benefit Dinner, in partnership with Zora. The benefit—Rhizome’s first since early 2020—will be hosted at Bowery Terrace in lower Manhattan on Tuesday, May 31, 2022. 

Purgatory | Hammer Museum | Los Angeles, CA

For #EarthDay, “Hellscape No 17” by artist @petra_cortright has been installed at the Cantor Arts Center (@cantorarts) and the @hammer_museum as part of #ACoolMillionCampaign, a public arts initiative for climate awareness led by artists and institutions to expand environmental justice programming and support the conservation of one million acres of land.

Photos by Kurt Hickman

ARTSY: The 10 Best Booths at Untitled Art Miami Beach 2021

COUNTY

Booth B43

With works by Sarah Meyohas

While most booths at this year’s Untitled Art Miami Beach feature a selection of works by multiple artists, COUNTY has opted for a solo presentation of renowned conceptual artist Sarah Meyohas. Back in 2015, the French American artist made headlines with her cryptocurrency performance “Bitchcoin,” which was minted months before Etherium came into existence. In 2017, she was included in Forbes magazine’s “30 Under 30” list. At COUNTY’s booth, Meyohas’s works continue the artist’s reflections on the nature and the possibilities of emerging technologies in contemporary society.

In addition to mesmerizing new hologram pieces by the artist, most of the works featured in the presentation are part of Mehoya’s enthralling “Speculation” series, including Liquid Speculation 5 and Blue and White Speculation (both 2021). “Even though she’s at the forefront in new mediums, her ‘Speculation’ works are created using a very traditional method: a hidden camera and two-way mirrors,” explained gallerist Dalton Freed. Close to half of the available works, priced between $20,000 and $30,000, had sold by the end of the day.

DNA as NFT: Artist Rachel Rossin Logs Her Genome on the Blockchain

BY SHANTI ESCALANTE-DE MATTEI

November 10, 2021 4:23pm

An artist who has consistently mulled the line between the virtual and the real, Rossin just debuted a new work that involves logging her DNA on the blockchain. Minted on the NFT platform OpenSea, the smart contract contains a precious string of code: Rossin’s sequenced genome.

Martine Poppe’s Pixelated Skyscapes Are Reminders of Our World’s Fragile Climate

Tomas Weber

Oct 28, 2021

Poppe’s delicate, pixelated clouds contemplate our embeddedness within interconnected systems—the climate and the internet

Now, at a time of ecological crisis and hyperconnectivity, these skyscapes also become markers of environmental anxiety.

Art to Augment 12 Botanical Gardens Around the World (Sarah Meyohas)

By Peter Libbey

June 30, 2021

“Coming out of the pandemic when outdoor experiences and nature have taken on a new meaning and gravity in our lives, this exhibition represents a fresh way for people to engage with art and nature simultaneously,” the curator Tal Michael Haring, who worked on the show with Hadas Maor, said in a statement.

El Anatsui, Pamela Rosenkranz, Timur Si-Qin, Sigalit Landau and Sarah Meyohas are among the other artists who will contribute to the coming show at locations in the United States, Britain, South Africa, Australia, Israel and Canada.

Bitchcoin by Sarah Meyohas One of the first tokenizations of art on the blockchain

In February 2015 conceptual artist Sarah Meyohas released Bitchcoin, one of the first ever tokenizations of art. Now, six years later, the artist is migrating Bitchcoin from its native chain to Ethereum, releasing 480 reserved Bitchcoins backed by art from her seminal Cloud of Petals exhibition. As part of our newest online auction, we will be selling five bundles of Bitchcoins, the first comprising 160 tokens and four subsequent bundles each containing 80 tokens.

Bidding will be open for Meyohas' Bitchcoin 25-28 May exclusively on phillips.com. 

Meet Wall Street’s Crypto Artist Sarah Meyohas’s work places her at the vanguard of an art-world revolution

By Bourree Lam

May 22, 2021 5:30 am ET

Sarah Meyohas says she doesn’t view buying a nonfungible token as purchasing art in the traditional sense. The transparency of pricing makes her queasy.

PHOTO: GABBY JONES FOR THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

Rachel Rossin's Digital Homes | Art21 "New York Close Up"

May 5, 2021

Synthesizing the traditional mediums of painting and sculpture with new technologies like augmented and virtual reality, Rachel Rossin fluidly blurs the digital and physical, exploring the emotional potential of an in-between space.

Serge Attukwei Clottey: Desert X Artists Dig Beneath the Sandy Surface

Artworks in this year’s biennial, scattered around the Palm Springs area, explore issues of land rights, water supply and more.

By Jori Finkel

Published March 12, 2021

Petra Cortright: Art In America: Immersive Art: New Realities and Virtual Worlds

By William S. Smith Jan/Feb 2021

The concept of layers is essential to understanding Petra Cortright's work. The intricate digital paintings she has created over the past decade take advantage of the powerful "layer" function at the heart of Photoshop. Every digital mark and brushstroke she makes using the image-editing software can be isolated and manipulated in its own slice of virtual space before being flattened and printed on canvas. But what if, instead of flattening these layers, they could be expanded in three dimensions?

Wendy White’s ”exploration of Americana” at the Armory Show.

The New York Times: Welcome to the Armory Fair. It’s Huge. It’s Hectic. Would You Like an Audio Guide?

By Brian Boucher MARCH 6, 2020

Mr. Diaz offers a refreshingly personal voice. “I really love Wendy White’s exploration of Americana,” he said at the Los Angeles gallery Shulamit Nazarian — where couches are upholstered with denim jeans — signaling to the newbie visitor that taste and enjoyment are valid criteria.

NEW DAY: john phillip abbott

JANUARY 11 - FEBRUARY 15, PARÍS

Exhibition January 11 – February 15, 2020

Since his debut, John Phillip Abbott explores the relationship between text and image, blurring the boundary between both. Words, names or short sentences organize his compositions with a grid-like structure and function as images rather than mere concepts. Complex and visually intense, his linguistic structures challenge legibility and invite the viewer to enter an interstitial zone, between “reading” and “seeing”.

Jason Stopa, Attic Sound, 2019

ARTSY: 11 Emerging Artists Redefining Abstract Painting

By Alina Cohen JAN 6, 2020

A new generation of painters, all 40 years old or younger, are rethinking what we might call, for lack of a better term, abstraction…

Jason Stopa makes paintings-within-paintings that suggest multiple browsers open on the same desktop. A red background lined with yellow stripes and diamonds, for example, might feature two distinct foregrounds on two vertically oriented rectangles of the same size that contain more color and pattern. Such compositions complicate ideas of foreground and background; of surface and support.

WALTER: Emerging Artist Corey Mason is Capturing International Attention: Raleigh artist Corey Mason lures the eye with boldly-rendered canvases pulled from classic motifs

By Samantha Gratton MAY 30, 2019

Mason was born and raised in Texas and had always drawn as a kid. He went to Texas A&M University and received a degree in landscape architecture. He says he didn’t start creating art until 2009 while working in Anchorage, Alaska. “My mother-in-law really encouraged me to do it. She was a teacher for 30-something years, and I think she has a talent for recognizing the core of who people are. She would constantly call me an artist,” Mason says. “So I was like, if I’m an artist, maybe I should start doing something.”

BOMB MAGAZINE: Studio Visit: Anne Vieux

By Terence Trouillot May 14, 2019

Anne Vieux’s studio—located in an old industrial building on the northside of Long Island City, Queens—is a glowing white cube: painted floor to ceiling in pristine marble white with hanging overhead fluorescent lights, the loft serves as the perfect backdrop for Vieux’s digitally inspired and scintillating paintings. 

ARTLAND: 500 Years

MAY 2019

Tristian Koenig is pleased to announce the opening of 500 Years - a solo exhibition of new works by Ry David Bradley. 500 Years consists of a suite of six new monochromatic tapestries that further the artist’s examination and consideration of Painting and the ephemeral nature of digital media in the 21st century.

In 2018 David Bradley adopted the jacquard loom tapestry technique for reasons both formal and conceptual. The jacquard technique is a 19th century technology developed in France in which a mechanical loom is operated by perforated metal cards. These perforated cards, which essentially represent a simple form of binary code, ’program’ the loom, with the result being the weave and weft of tapestry paralleling digital screen arrays and pixelization.

Sarah Bittman Installation at The Armory Show, 2019

SIGHT UNSEEN: Five Artists We Loved At Armory Arts Week 2019

By Jill Singer MAR. 14, 2019

But while it can be sometimes be difficult to find artists who fit our aesthetic, the five we’re featuring in this story seriously delivered. Samantha Bittman (no stranger to Sight Unseen) showed trippy acrylic on textile pieces against a digitally printed wallpaper.

PLAIN: IN SPECULATIONS, SARAH MEYOHAS EPLORES THE THRILL OF STARING INTO THE VOID

By Kala Barba-Cort SEPT. 10, 2018

“New York-based artist Sarah Meyohas invites us into an intriguing world of infinite tunnels in her installation series titled Speculations.

Though it is a nod to the ‘smoke and mirrors’ saying, there is no deception involved in the making of the project: Meyohas used neither Photoshop nor digital manipulation through the course of creating Speculations. The dreamlike installations are both poetic and frightening, just as she intended. “I was interested in making the photograph very explicitly seductive,” she explains in an interview. “Whether it’s colours or the flowers drawing you in, I want viewers to feel like they’re being drawn into the void, like standing upon a precipice.” More of her work here.”

NEW EVENTS MUSEUM: Seven on Seven 2019

By New Events Museum APR. 27, 2019

Seven on Seven brings together leaders in art and technology for a one-day creative collaboration with a simple challenge: “Make something.” On Saturday, April 27, seven collaborative pairs will reveal their projects at the New Museum.

Seven on Seven 2019 will feature:

Artist Rachel Rose & Kirstin Petersen, Founder, Collective Embodied Intelligence Lab, Cornell
Artist Matthew Angelo Harrison & Trevor McFedries, Cofounder, Brud
Artist Sarah Meyohas & Tarun Chitra, Founder, Gauntlet
Artist Hayal Pozanti & Laura Welcher, Linguist, Long Now Foundation
Artist American Artist & Rashida Richardson, Director of Policy Research, AI Now
Artist Artie Vierkant & James La Marre, Developer & Activist
Artist Qiu Zhijie & He Xiaodong, Deputy Managing Director, JD AI

Interlace, a large-scale vinyl mural by Brooklyn-based artist Samantha Bittman.

WALL STREET INTERNATIONAL: Samantha Bittman

By The Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) MAY 25, 2018

This spring, to coincide with the opening of Surface/Depth: The Decorative After Miriam Schapiro, the museum will feature Interlace, a large-scale vinyl mural by Brooklyn-based artist Samantha Bittman. Interlace wraps the entry-level elevator bank in a colorful, oversize weaving draft–the pattern weavers follow to work out their designs in advance, dress their loom, and subsequently weave a piece of cloth.

The relationship between the handcrafted and the digital is a hallmark of Bittman’s practice. The artist sets her hand-painted, hand-woven textiles against the backdrop of digitally printed wallpaper, for which she creates graphics using Photoshop. She sets the resolution of the wallpaper (pixels per inch) to the thread count of the painting that will hang on it, such that the wallpaper becomes an extension of the painting as well as a support, fusing weaving, painting, and graphics in a multilayered exploration of pattern.

HUFF POST: Charles Schwab Closes Sarah Meyohas’ NYSE Account

By Medelaine D’angelo (Founder & CEO of Arthena)

APR. 4, 2016 ( Updated DEC. 06, 2017)

Sarah Meyohas, an artist we interviewed back in January, has had her New York Stock Exchange account closed by Charles Schwab. She has exhibited her paintings which reflect her stock market trades and their effects on the market at Gallery 303. In an article by Fortune, it is said that her ambitions with this project is to “alter prices of 12 different NYSE-traded stocks,” proving her exhibition a relative success. With a market cap of $40 million or less, the effects of Meyohas’ stock buys are strong enough to be evident enough to catch the attention of Charles Schwab.

The Observer notes: “...Charles Schwab, a financial institution regulated by a bevy of agencies,” would have to shut down an account that made a, “public spectacle of how easy it is to manipulate the market.” Additionally, manipulating the stock market for any reason is against the law.

INTERVIEW: THIS DREAMY NEW SHOW EXPLORES NATURE AND TECHNOLOGY THROUGH 10,000 DISASSEMBLED ROSES

By Pimploy Phongsirivech Photography Tess Mayer OCT. 12, 2017

Cloud of Petals, the 26-year-old artist’s latest project, is as ethereal and delightfully obscure as it sounds. Meyohas marries nature and technology to discover the meaning in collecting (and collected) data; it’s fitting that the undertaking was conducted at Bell Labs, a now-abandoned research complex that birthed the information theory, which used math to define and represent information, allowing for its transmission, storage—and resulting, eventually, in the creation of the Internet.

"‘SARAH MEYOHAS: First of all, visually there’s so much more tension with men pulling apart these roses—these masculine hands, there’s a sexuality latent within that. A lot of these types of work are also done by women, for example Amazon Mechanical Turk or the Google Scanning Project. I was interested in flipping systems already in place.’

AI ARTISTS

2017

Sarah Meyohas is a visual artist working across media. For her project Cloud of Petals, she staged a performance at the site of the former Bell Labs. Sixteen workers photographed 100,000 individual rose petals, compiling a massive dataset. This information was used to map out an artificial intelligence algorithm that learned to generate new, unique petals forever.

“Petals cannot digitize themselves. Human hands must individually open the flower, pick the petal, place it under the lens, press the shutter, and upload the image to the cloud. Then again, and again, and again. Computers document the signals generated by humans. When computers were human, they were often women.” - Petra Cortright

Film still from Sarah Meyohas’s Cloud of Petals (2017)

ARTNET: How Artist Sarah Meyohas Transformed 100,000 Rose Petals Into a Steely Critique of Big Data

By Sarah Cascone  OCT. 17, 2017

Cloud of Petals” is just as conceptually driven as her earlier works, despite being a radical departure in subject and form.

The 100,000 petals selected and photographed at Bell Labs became Meyohas’s data set, a jumping-off point for the artist’s ruminations on human subjectivity, automation, and artificial intelligence, among other concepts.

HYPERALLERGIC: Painting from the Ground Up

By Thomas Micchelli      JUL. 9, 2016

Other inversions take place in Samantha Bittman’s two works, both untitled paintings from 2016 in acrylic on hand-woven textiles. These geometric patterns, which border on optical art, are composed primarily of black-and-white or orange-and-white strands, while the painted overlays continue the patterns in reverse coloration (white to black, black to white; orange to white, white to orange). They are reversals hiding in plain sight, slippery disjunctions between artifice and reality.

Meyohas’ artwork inspired by stocks’ fluctuating values

OBSERVER: Was An Artist’s Brokerage Account Shut Down for Manipulating the Stock Market? Sarah Meyohas had her account closed by Charles Schwab, perhaps making the exact point she wanted to.

By Guelda Voien  MAR. 28, 2016

Last month, Ms. Meyohas reportedly sold stock from her Charles Schwab and TD Ameritrade accounts in front of a live audience at 303 Gallery, in Chelsea, as part of an art installation. She then painted as the stocks were affected, inspired by their fluctuations in value (she planned to lose money on this venture, though she didn’t say how much). The artist used only randomly selected stocks of firms with a market cap of under $40 million, according to Fortune‘s coverage of the event, so she’d have more likelihood of actually having an impact on the prices. Charles Schwab has since shut down her account, but won’t say exactly why.

Sarah Meyohas, “NASB Financial Inc. on January 14, 2016,” Oil stick on canvas, 50 x 60 inches.

MONEY: When Trading Stocks Is a Work of Art

By Alicia Adamczyk JAN. 22, 2016

For Meyohas, the performance art is a statement on the intersection of truth and value. The stock market is one of the few places, she said, where people come together and agree on a set price for something, at least for a time. And anyone can see that value. The value of a painting, on the other hand “is pretty evasive. It’s hard to pin down what a painting is worth,” she said. “Here, paintings just represent a line that is literally value, but that line is just created for a visual purpose.”

PHOTOGRAPH BY MARINA ZARYA—TIME INC

The artist Sarah Meyohas performing her first iteration of "Stock Performance," 2014/2015. © Sarah Meyohas

ARTSPACE: The New Paint-by-Numbers? Sarah Meyohas on How She Is Manipulating the Financial Markets to Make Art

By Dylan Kerr JAN. 8, 2016

Artspace’s Dylan Kerr met with Meyohas in 303’s cavernous gallery space where, surrounded by blank canvases that will eventually be marked with the records of her (and her stocks’) performance, they discussed how Meyohas went from a finance major at Wharton to a gallery show in Chelsea, the "lifestyle" of running an apartment gallery, and the potential legal ramifications of manipulating the stock market.

NEW AMERICAN PAINTINGS: IN THE STUDIO: JOHN PHILLIP ABBOTT’S CHOICE WORDS

By Claude Smith JAN 4, 2016

“Tennis,” “Cosmos,” “Pontiac,” “Zen,” and “Fortuna” are some of the words that find their way into Abbott’s compositions; diaristic words that create an association to past experience and memory. While they often have deeply personal meanings, their ambiguity leaves room for multiple interpretations. Take Cosmos, a word neatly bisected and stacked within the pictorial plane, the letters C, M, S, and S clearly legible along the margins of the composition, yet the shared O expands upward across the center of canvas like a gaping void or portal that swallows the viewer’s attention.

Speculation (2014)

ARTNEWS: A New Cryptocurrency Enters the Art Market: BitchCoin

By Hannah Ghorashi  FEB. 18, 2015

Artist Sarah Meyohas launched her own personal cryptocurrency on Sunday night in the Financial District at Trinity Place, a bar located across from the birthplace of the Occupy movement, Zuccotti Park.

The currency is backed by Meyohas’s photography, at a fixed exchange rate of 1 BitchCoin to 25 square inches of photographic print. Under the heading “Why would I buy BitchCoin?” on BitchCoin’s website, Meyohas explains: “BitchCoin allows art collectors to invest directly in Sarah Meyohas as a value producer rather than investing in the artwork itself. For investors, BitchCoin is like any currency tradable on the open market. It’s a bet on Sarah Meyohas with no expiration.”