[In]tangible Futures

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JUNE 16 - JULY 3

LYORA PISSARRO THE ALLAUX BROTHERS SOFIA CIANCIULLI MARI KIM

LADY PINK MILA SKETCH CUPCAKE & HONEYB WORLD OF WOMEN

INDEX FOREWORD....................................................................................................................................... 1 - 3 LYORA PISSARRO x THE ALLAUX BROTHERS........................................................... 4 - 13 SOFIA CIANCIULLI.......................................................................................................................... 14 - 21 MARI KIM............................................................................................................................................. 22 - 27 LADY PINK.......................................................................................................................................... 28 - 29 MILA SKETCH................................................................................................................................... 30 - 31 WORLD OF WOMEN.................................................................................................................... 32 - 33 CUPCAKEANDHONEYB.............................................................................................................. 34 - 35

FOREWORD West Chelsea Contemporary is proud to present [In]tangible Futures: Women at the Forefront, an exhibition that celebrates artists breaking ground through the incorporation of new technologies in their fine art practices. From projection mapping and augmented reality to digital fine art NFTs, each of the artists in this show blur the boundaries between material and immaterial. Highlighting the work of women artists working at the intersection of digital and fine art, [In]tangible Futures features Lyora Pissarro x The Allaux Brothers, Sofia Cianciulli, Mari Kim, Lady Pink, and Mila Sketch. Showcased alongside these artists is a selection of emerging digital artists and World of Women NFTs curated by CupcakeandHoneyB, moderators of the WoW discord.

Lyora Pissarro’s series of mindscape oil paintings incorporate the dynamism and vibrancy of projection mapping through her collaboration with The Allaux Brothers. With over a decade of experience, The Allaux Brothers are leading pioneers of the projection art form and have become fluent in telling stories through digital expression. Co-founder and creative director of Rhizome Creative, Oliver Allaux has designed projects across the world from Art Basel to Formula 1. Within this collaboration, their projections awaken Lyora Pissarro’s meditative works. Standing on the shoulders of a lineage of impressionist landscape artists, Pissarro’s work embraces her artistic heritage, while articulating an entirely new perspective. In her masterful oil paintings, worlds are created and connected through endless layers of color offering an inward perspective into an inevitably self-created reality. Blending the digital with the traditional, each of Pissaro’s paintings are first created digitally, mapping out the composition and color scheme before her brush ever touches the canvas. After her works are brought to life in the physical form, they have transformed once again through the bending light and form of digital projection maps created by Oliver and Alex Allaux.

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Sofia Cianciulli combines painting, digital media, and performance art to consider the female body in the post-feminist media age. Reflecting on the depictions of women throughout art historical tradition, Cianciulli uses her own body as an agent of action and creation. Her work reflects upon the entangled nature of millennials and the internet, responding with authenticity and transparency to modern narrative conventions that are an inextricable part of her reality. From photographic stills to digital NFTs, Cianciulli’s work offers a raw representation of the female body that challenges the distorted representation of media images. Moments of glitch challenge the fault and incompatibility between real and virtual worlds while clouds of gradient color create symbolic boundaries between the viewer and the artist’s body.

South Korean contemporary artist Mari Kim draws upon the language of manga and pop art to create her lustrous canvases. Kim is best known for the recurring character in her paintings “Eyedoll,” a cartoon-like porcelain-skinned female with large oval eyes that stare directly out from the surface. Heavily informed by her training in digital animation, each of Kim’s compositions begin with a digital rendering before being translated into paint on canvas. Eyedoll transforms between paintings, donning various outfits and guises as she stands against different backgrounds. Subtle alterations to the character’s kaleidoscopic iris patterns match changes in her costume and mood while inviting viewers into a world that toes the line between imagination and reality.

The intricate paintings of award-winning artist Mila Sketch are activated by the viewer through the incorporation of augmented reality. Best known for her complex line work and vibrant use of color, Sketch explores the relationship between humanity, technology, and the natural world. From her AR paintings and digital NFTs, Sketch proposes a world in which technological advancement and nature coexist in harmony.

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As a paragon of her career and artistic vision, first-generation graffiti artist Lady Pink’s Genesis NFT brings to life and preserves a mural she created for the Museum of Graffiti in 2020. Both the mural and NFT ActivistaZ celebrate young activists fighting for women’s equality, LGBTQ rights, proper immigration policy, and victims' advocacy.

In collaboration with CupcakeandHoneyB, powerhouse NFT investors and the moderators for the World of Women discord, WCC is excited to showcase a curated selection of emerging digital artists. Included among them are World of Women (WoW) NFTs, randomly generated digital collectibles of various rarity living on the Ethereum blockchain.

[In]tangible Futures: Women at the Forefront looks at the ways in which contemporary women artists, and their collaborators, are employing and experimenting with new technologies to push the boundaries of their own artistic practices. Through digital innovation and fine art mastery, each of the artists in this show invent immersive new worlds.

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LYORA PISSARRO French, b. 1991

Lyora Pissarro’s work is a synthesis and a bridge between the past and future, humans and nature, mind and body, technology and myth. Her paintings stand at the focal point between history and the imminent future, the realized and the imagined. Standing on the shoulders of a lineage of impressionist landscape artists, her work embraces her artistic heritage, while articulating an entirely new perspective. Lyora’s research into this project not only looks outward toward nature but inward as well. This particular vantage point on nature and the self, take form in an evolving series called Mindscapes. While Lyora focuses primarily on painting, her creations also emerge as digital sketches, interactive installations, and light sculptures. Presented are distortions of the habitual landscape form, blending the digital into the traditional and blurring the elusive nature of reality itself. Worlds are created and connected through endless layers of color, optical illusions arise, and perspectives are formed, conveying the multitude of landscapes within one’s inner psychology. Lyora paints in Brooklyn New York and completed her formal education at Hunter College, after doing her foundation year at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) Lyora Pissarro has held exhibitions in New York, Utah, Texas, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Barcelona & London.

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THE ALLAUX BROTHERS American

Oliver Allaux has over 10 years of building stage designs and live projection mapping environments at large international festivals, fashion shoots, gallery shows, and immersive experiential environments. He has emerged as one of the leading pioneers of the projection art form, helping solidify its legitimacy as a digital expression not yet fully realized or explored. In a world heading rapidly towards digital immersion, he feels it necessary to continue the conversation about how this new reality can be brought back into the material world, providing us with new windows into the conversation of what art is, existing at the event horizon of the NFT revolution.

Alex Allaux has spent the past decade telling stories through film and projection mapping. His work has brought him from refugee camps in Greece to international projection mapping festivals and NYC gallery spaces. Focusing on humans and their place in the natural world, his work hangs at the intersection of light, form, and fiction.

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Lyora Pissarro x The Allaux Brothers The Center of Articulation, 2022 Oil paint on board 42 x 42 in

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Lyora Pissarro x The Allaux Brothers Unfolding Wings of the Heart, 2022 47.75 x 47.75 in

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Lyora Pissarro x The Allaux Brothers The Miracle of Metamorphasis, 2022 Oil paint on board 42 x 42 in

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Lyora Pissarro x The Allaux Brothers Whispers of Eternity, 2022 Oil paint on board 39.75 x 39.75 in

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Lyora Pissarro x The Allaux Brothers Reality Reformed & Redifined, 2022 Oil paint on board 41 x 41 in

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Lyora Pissarro x The Allaux Brothers In Between The Walls of Perception, 2022 Oil paint on board 27.50 x 27.50 in

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Lyora Pissarro x The Allaux Brothers The Sun Shall Rise Again, 2022 Oil and paint on board 27.50 x 27.50

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Lyora Pissarro x The Allaux Brothers Chose Your Horizon, 2022 Oil and paint on board 27.50 x 27.50 in

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SOFIA CIANCIULLI Italian, b. 1993

Sofia Cianciulli is a multi-disciplinary body artist from Florence, Italy. Cianciulli grew up surrounded by Renaissance art history’s sexual connotations, and later was influenced by the individualism and diversity of New York feminism. After completing her MA in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins, Cianciulli was shortlisted for The Ingram Prize. Cianciulli combines painting, performance, digital media, and augmented reality to consider the female body in the post-feminist media age. Her work reflects upon the entangled and co-dependent nature of millennials and the internet, responding with absolute transparency to modern narrative conventions that are an inextricable part of her reality.

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Sofia Cianciulli Digital Body, 2019 Digital print mounted on mirror 47 x 33 in

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Sofia Cianciulli Underwater I, 2021 Fine art digital print on Canson paper 47 x 33 in

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Sofia Cianciulli Underwater III, 2021 Fine art digital print on Canson paper 47 x 33 in

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Sofia Cianciulli #digitalfeelings I, 2020 Fine art digital print on Canson paper 47 x 33 in

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Sofia Cianciulli #digitalfeelings IV, 2020 Fine art digital print on Canson paper 47 x 33 in

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Sofia Cianciulli A moment, 2022 Fine art digital print on Canson paper 47 x 33 in

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Sofia Cianciulli A moment in time, 2022 Fine art digital print on Canson paper 47 x 33 in

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MARI KIM South Korean, b. 1979

Mari Kim calls the recurring figure in her work “Eyedoll,” a cartoon-like, porcelainskinned female distinguished by her large oval eyes. In Kim’s lustrous ink-oncanvas prints, Eyedoll stares directly out from the surface; she dons different outfits and guises while standing against different backgrounds. As Eyedoll shifts through identities, Kim makes subtle alterations to the figure’s iris patterns, matching changes in costume to changes in mood. The relentless seriality of her work attends to questions of how identity can be altered with props and fashion, and it also models a kind of fetishistic Asian female identity that is confrontational in its forwardness.

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Mari Kim Across the universe, 2021 Acrylic pen, Acrylic paint used, Genuine gold leaf plated on ultra chrome ink printed paper 64 x 51 in

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Mari Kim Bit On, Gold, 2022 Genuine gold leaf and silver leaf plated, acrylic paint used on ultra chrome ink printed paper 51 x 43 in

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Mari Kim Bit On, Silver, 2022 Genuine gold leaf and silver leaf plated, acrylic paint used on ultra chrome ink printed paper 51 x 43 in

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Mari Kim Song for nobody, Letter no1, 2021 Acrylic pen, color spray, oil paint on ultra chrome ink printed paper 43. x 36 in

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Mari Kim Original Script, 2021 Acrylic pen, Acrylic paint used, Genuine gold leaf and silver leaf plated on ultra chrome ink printed paper 55 x 67 in

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LADY PINK Ecuadorian-American, b. 1964

Sandra Fabara, aka, Lady Pink, was born in Ecuador, raised in Queens, New York, and studied at the High School of Art & Design in Manhattan. While a student there, she met a group of graffiti artists and began writing at age fifteen.

She was soon well known as the only prominent female capable of competing with the boys in the graffiti subculture. Lady Pink painted subway trains from the years 1979-1985. She appeared in theaters in the starring role of Rose in Charlie Ahearn’s 1983 film Wild Style and quickly acquired hip-hop, cult figure status.

Lady Pink’s canvases are in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Brooklyn Museum, among others. They were featured in the major exhibitions “Art in the Streets” at the LA MOCA and “Graffiti” at the Brooklyn Museum. Lady Pink continues to mature as an artist, selling work internationally and producing ambitious murals commissioned for universities, corporations and institutions

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Lady Pink ActivistaZ, 2022 NFT

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MILA SKETCH American, b. 1985

American, b.1970

Mila Sketch is an award-winning artist based in Austin, TX. Sketch’s work leads viewers through a milliard of tiny perfectly connected details to a global & whole mechanism. She works with a set of symbols appealing to the viewer of diverse cultural backgrounds and age groups. Mila consistently creates captivating large-scale murals, fine art, and digital design. Her work has been exhibited across the United States as well as in Israel, Russia, and the United Kingdom.

Sketch has created art for many reputable clients, such as Mazda USA, Google Fiber, SXSW, Hensel Phelps, and Austin-Bergstrom International Airport. Mila is currently representing the state of TX in the “Her Flag” 2020 National Art Project.

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Mila Sketch Butterflies, 2022 Acrylic and ink on pressed wood with AR activation 15 x 84 in

Mila Sketch Sophia the Robot, 2021 NFT 31

WORLD OF WOMEN Founded 2021

American, b.1970

World of Women is a group founded by Yam Karkai and BBA that aims to bring diversity, community, and inclusivity to the NFT community. After their launch in July of 2021, the WoW collection sold out overnight and generated over $40 million in the first two weeks. Now highly sought after NFTs, they depict 10,000 images of women made up of randomly generated characteristics such as skin tones, facial features, clothes, and more. This has opened the door to a whole new market of NFT investors, as women are excited about seeing a diverse range of NFTs that look like them. Celebrities such as Reese Witherspoon, Shonda Rhimes, and Liam Payne, and others have also revealed they are WoW members. In addition to their emphasis on supporting and uplifting women, they donate 2.5% of primary sales to three different causes: She’s the First, Too Young to Wed, and Strange Cintia. World of Women also frequently collaborates with different artists and reinvests back into artists through the WoW fund.

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Yam Karkai Woman #5926, 2021 NFT

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CUPCAKEANDHONEYB American

CupcakeandHoneyB (aka Tes & Bethany) are a married female duo who are NFT investors/ collectors and analysts. Their traditional backgrounds are occupational therapy and financial analysis. It is Tes' love of art and Bethany's love of analysis that makes the NFT world a perfect fit for them. They joined the space over a year ago and were fast to learn about different artists, projects, platforms, and more prior to producing their own research analyses for others to review. They also recognized NFTs as a platform that could help artists receive proper compensation for both primary sales and royalties, provide communities for personal connection, assist charities and other notable causes to get funding and so much more. They are moderators in the discord server for World of Women and are Community Managers for Code Green and Aku. Their NFT portfolio includes traditional art NFTs, avatar projects, digital comic collectibles, sports, and more. Outside of growing their collection, they share a deep passion for educating others about the industry and helping them get started.

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