On display are independent artists Skye Nicolas and Jonathan Wolfe, and Bloom collective artists Ben Thomas, David Lisser, Dexamol, Hannes Hummel, Icki, noCreative, onyro, Stephan Duquesnoy, Shavonne Wong & Tina Eisen.

Perhaps it is time to think of digital art as a new center, a point we have arrived at; the rebellious teenage offspring of traditional art and the 21st century.

Maturing at an incomprehensible rate, movements that once took decades or centuries to establish happen in weeks, or even days with the advent of digital creativity. Renegotiating the definition of space, artist, community and viewership, crypto artists are re-introducing the union between art and technology to establish an unprecedented legacy.

In our global LOOK2022 collection, our NFTs showcase diverse creators focused on visual experiences expanded with sound and scent, merging URL and IRL. Curated by Alia Aluma, a graduate in the field of decentralized societies and CryptoArt history.

JONATHAN WOLFE
LOOKING IN
2022
MP 4 Still, ACRYLIC AND GOUACHE ON WOOD PANEL 16" X 20"

VALUE $28,000
MINIMUM BID $14,000
LISTED ON SUPERRARE MARKETPLACE THE FIRST NFT COLLECTOR WILL RECEIVE A TANGIBLE, IRL PAINTING FROM WHICH THE NFT IS RENDERED.

Jonathan Wolfe is a 22 year old artist based in Calgary, Alberta. He studied at the Alberta University of the Arts for painting. Wolfe’s art often deals with humor, color, and play while exploring many different mediums such as acrylic, gouache, digital animation, and print. His work has been featured in both URL and IRL exhibitions, including “Fabricated Fairytales” on Nifty Gateway in 2021, where his work sat beside notable NFT artists FEWOCiOUS, parrot_ism and Odious, influential and defining figures in the playful world of anti-hierarchical creation. “Fabricated Fairytales” auctioned Wolfe’s work, Living in my Head, for $55,555.55 USD.

Wolfe’s work has been discussed in Artsy (2020) and Toronto Star, with the young artist's playful pieces appearing on Super Rare (2020 & 2022), Dart Milano (2021), in Albert Einstein Foundation (2021), and $MEME (2021), and in collaboration with Nike & RTFKT Studios with his own AirForce1s in 2021. This local artist has become a significant member of the NFTism movement, a moment in art focused on collaborative, community focused creation and sale, renegotiating what it means to have agency as an artist.

SKYE NICOLAS
IN BLOOM: FLOWER WORK #1
MP4 Still

MP4, 1 of 5 Works, Exhibited at: Bang & Olufsen showroom, Königsallee 61, 40215 Düsseldorf.

Born in Manila, lives and works in
New York (NY), USA Ranging from large format paintings, filmmaking, photography, video installation, public space interventions, sculpture, and street wear design, New York-based post-conceptual artist Skye Nicolas blends socio-political commentary with elegantly composed amalgamations of vivid imagery and pop culture references through various means of precisely executed appropriation and witty subtextual conversation. In doing so, he explores the fundamentally potent tactics of Twenty-First Century marketing while revealing the systemic trappings of modern day consumerism as a way of life. At the core of his work, Nicolas pinpoints the pulse of a living transmedia consciousness: a fully plugged-in and engaged technology- driven culture that engorges itself on mass-produced content and information.

BEN THOMAS
ARCHIBOLD
JPG

JPG, 1 OF 5 WORKS, LISTED ON ETHERSCAN. CURRENT COLLECTOR: M3

BEN THOMAS, is a UK-based Artist and Art Director working in the medium of 3D. His work is often inspired by dreams, human connection, world affairs and mental health. He also counts music as one of his biggest daily inspirations.

Ben Thomas is an Art Director at Cape & Monocle where he predominantly works on projects in the Entertainment industry and advertising sector for clients such as Sony, Universal, Island Records, BMG and Warner Music. He has also been making my own art and exhibiting in traditional spaces for over a decade.

Outside of client work, Ben has been part of the NFT industry since November 2020 and first minted in February 2021. All of his pieces listed have sold out, including my recent submission as part of the Bloom Collective drop on Nifty Gateway which sold out in under 15 minutes.

DAVID LISSER
GROTTO
MP4 Still

MP4, MINTED ON FEBRUARY 1, 2022.
LAST SOLD: 3.0Ξ ($8,284 USD).
CURRENT COLLECTOR: @PADDYSTASH

DAVID LISSER, is a UK based artist working across digital and physical media. He has a background in sculpture and his work has been shown widely in Museums and Galleries across the UK and Europe, including at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art and MIMA. He is known for his cultured-meat artworks, which interrogate the relationship between technology, nature and consumption – and utilize the digital simulation of life to unpick our understanding of ‘the real’. He is deeply embedded in the NFT landscape, and works to bridge the gap between the traditional art-world and this newer space. He is on the Curation Committee for Fingerprints DAO and was an artist advisor for the inaugural Vertical CryptoArt artist residency programme.

DEXAMOL
GENESYNTH
MP4 Still

MP4, MINTED ON SUPERRARE, APRIL 26, 2021.
LAST SOLD: 2.2Ξ ($4,381 USD)
CURRENT COLLECTOR: @PLAYDRESS

DEXAMOL, is an artist who produces animations and
digital images, as well as physical sculptures. Dexamol’s
art bypasses engendered dichotomies such as natural vs artificial & finds beauty in the small things. His work was most recently shown at Art Basel, the billboards of Shibuya Tokyo and at Wieden+Kennedy in a charity exhibition in support of Rainforest Trust.

HANNES HUMMEL
ARTIFICIAL FLORILEGIA – ACT 1
MP4 Still

MP4, MINTED ON OCTOBER 13, 2021.
LAST SOLD: 9.0Ξ ($32,211 USD)
CURRENT COLLECTOR: @TAPPYSF

HANNES HUMMEL, is a German-based interdisciplinary Designer and 3D Artist focusing on contemporary imagery. His recent digital artworks focus on the mesmerizing complexity of organic structures—symmetry, tessellations, and patterns within patterns capturing fragments of nature. In addition, his work often references a wide variety of historical art movements, reimagined through the digital medium. Hummel’s work was showcased at Art Basel Miami, on multiple Billboards in Tokyo and Beijing, and at the world’s first exclusive NFT gallery. Superchief Gallery. in New York City. Besides creating digital art, he has worked as a freelance motion designer for top-leading brands such as creatives such as Sony Japan, Nike, Iris Van Herpen, BMW, and more.

ICKI
META-PLAGIARISM
MP4 Still

MP4, MINTED ON JULY 20, 2021. LAST SOLD: 1.55Ξ ($3,087 USD) CURRENT COLLECTOR: @KRYBHARAT

ICKI, is an independent creative with more than 10 years of commercial experience operating across consultancy and commercial creative positions based in London, UK. He is known for reimagining ‘conceptual and minimalist’ art within the digital domain and exploring themes that transcend Crypto native and non-native perspectives.

NOCREATIVE
EN ROUTE.
MP4 Still

MP4, MINTED ON SUPERRARE, MAY 5, 2022.

NOCREATIVE’S work, En Route, takes the erratic nature of a piece of cloth in the wind, displayed through seamless

looping. In doing so, he has created a contemporary art installation viewed through a screen. While his inspiration, Hans Haackes, was restricted by basic physics, noCreative is not. With this freedom, noCreative declares, “I have done the impossible—this is art in transformation.”

SHAVONNE WONG
THE KISS
MP4 Still

MP4, MINTED ON SUPERRARE, SEPTEMBER 2021. BOUGHT FOR 4Ξ ($7,967 USD), CURRENTLY LISTED FOR 5.15Ξ ($10,257 USD). CURRENT COLLECTOR: @JO7_VAULT

SHAVONNE WONG, awarded Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia,
is a 3D Virtual Model Creator and NFT Artist. Building on her experiences as a Fashion and Advertising Photographer for the past decade, she creates life-like virtual models and places them in surreal environments and the metaverse. Wong has collaborated with Vogue Singapore, Sotheby’s, the World Economic Forum and the World of Women project. She also created a 500 pieces project, Love is Love, a reflection on the expression of love and identity that enabled its collectors to have a say in determining the generative artwork’s outcome. Notable collectors include Idris Elba.

STEPHAN DUQUESNOY
RUINOUS OPULENCE
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JPG, MINTED ON MAKERSPLACE, SEPTEMBER 25, 2021.
LAST SOLD: 1.25Ξ .($4,995.11 USD). CURRENT OWNER: @404ART

STEPHAN DUQUESNOY’S work is easily recognizable due to his unique combination of romantic aesthetics with hints of classical sentiment and melancholy. To create his work, Stephan uses an unique mixture of craftsmanship in combination with custom-made procedural tools. His works often feature lush ornaments and flowers in combination with strong feminine characters. Both his compositional elements and work philosophy are heavily inspired by the pre-raphaelite brotherhood painters.

TINA EISEN
AYUTHIA
MP4 Still

MP4, MINTED ON SUPERRARE, NOVEMBER 27, 2021.
LAST SOLD: 5.22Ξ ($10,396.83 USD)
CURRENT OWNER: CRYPTINISH

Tina Eisen, is an editorial and commercial beauty and fashion photographer based in London, UK. With over 10 years of experience in the industry. Her artwork revolves around macro self portraits, where she explores the beauty of the focused minimal, combined with her expertise in the beauty industry. Sometimes exploring the dark sides of human nature.

Tina’s Beauty Photography workshops in Europe and North America, her publications and online beauty photography tutorials are popular amongst a global audience.

Tina is a regular speaker and educator for photography equipment and software brands such as Canon, Profoto and Capture One and is regularly showcasing her craft at national and international trade-shows.

Art Auction Sponsor

Heather Bala Edwards & k.d. lang

Art Auction Chair

Deborah Herringer Kiss

Auctioneer

Brett Sherlock
Christie's International Consultant

LOOK2022 Committee

Contemporary Calgary’s LOOK committee is made up of a diverse group of individuals, all of whom have one thing in common: their support of Contemporary Calgary and their commitment to making LOOK2022 the party of the year. Thank you to all of our committee members for your ideas, your time, your energy, and your enthusiasm.

LOOK2022 Chair

Kelly Streit

Honorary Chairs

Douglas Coupland, OC, OBC
M. Ann McCaig, CM, AOE
Kelly Oxford
Adrian A. Stimson

Vice-Chairs

Kim Berjian
Erin Donnelly-Ferguson

Committee Members

Ryan Atkins, Alexandra Burroughs, Elizabeth Carson, Tara Cowles, Chris Cran, Chaitali Dave, Lauretta Enders, Samara Felesky Hunt, Matthew Grant & Carly Duerr, Arif Hirani, Ernest Hon, Usman Jutt, Deb Kerr, Steve & Zoe Klintberg Nagy, Kevin Krausert, Bruce Kuwabara, CM, Chad Larson, Michelle Lazo, D'Arcy Levesque, Margaret-Jean Mannix, Walker & Jeannie McKinley, Michael Meneghetti, Elizabeth & Ross Middleton, Pat Moore, OC, Ellen Parker, Jenn Rallison, M. Carol Ryder, Robyn Silverberg, Chloe Streit, Peter & Jan Tertzakian, Todd Towers, and Jan Wittig.