RarePass: Genesis Artists

Influenced by psychedelics, dreams, sex, and death, her art evokes comfort and anxiety simultaneously, handling its subject matter through a layer of acidic haze, normalizing the terrifying and transforming the sweet and mundane into the unsettling. The subjects of her work project a sense of immediacy upon the viewer, but also seem entirely suspended in time, lost in worlds of their own making. A Cambodian refugee living in the United States, her family’s experiences have influenced her work as well, lending specific perspectives on love, mortality, and connection.

Her work transports viewers on psychedelic sci-fi voyages through modern landscapes, some real, and some only imagined. Envisioning post-Armageddon possibilities featuring depopulated cityscapes, crashed spaceships, towering waves, and raging fires, she works in scales from large-scale installations to gallery pieces. She is the author of the internationally taught textbook, “The Computer in the Visual Arts.” She is a co-founder of Spalter Digital, one of the largest private collections of early computer art work.

Its artistic capabilities are based on a custom art engine, a proprietary blend of algorithmic models that have synthesized millions of images. Running now for over a year, Botto produces 350 visuals per week. From these pieces, BottoDAO members vote to select the images they deem most aesthetically pleasing. The most popular one then becomes a canonical Botto artwork, sold as an NFT on SuperRare. In addition, Botto learns from the results of each of these votes further evolving its artistic process and body of work. Botto’s genesis appeared on SuperRare in 2021, and the AI has since minted over 50 pieces of art.

Carlos first discovered Bitcoin in 2012 and became a major proponent of the currency, using it as inspiration for many of his early NFT works. Marcial combines his Mexican and Puerto Rican cultural ancestry with modern art history and futuristic 3D renders to create works that are full of color, movement, and humor. He and his wife Alondra Durán are the cofounders of Metafísica Gallery.

An early crypto artist who began creating blockchain-themed artworkin 2017, his 'Decentral Eyes' portrait series gives a personalized visual representation of the disruptive crypto and blockchain industries. Coldie has established himself as a thought-leader, collector and metaverse gallery curator in the NFT art community.

First picking up traction on the Tezos platform Hic et Nunc, he recently exhibited at the 2022 Venice Biennale. The subjects of his art are often sweating, wrinkled, and haggard as they engage in acts of desperation amid references to the darkest corners of American consumerism, capturing a cultural emptiness so specific to its time and place with an unforgiving sharpness. Diewiththemostlikes first minted on SuperRare in January 2022, and his writing can be found in print and across digital literary and art journals.

His work involves capturing the world from never before seen perspectives, many of which were shot from the daring heights atop bridges and buildings. It is through these new vantage points that he has come to see a new perspective on life, one of which he hopes to share through his photography. After incarceration and fighting for his life and work integrity against the United States Justice system, Drift’s work began to break through. His story arrived on the front page of the New York Times on June 6th, 2021 as he fought for his freedom. The parallels of reaching new heights and sharing those with the world has touched the lives of his collectors and inspired many other photographers. Drift has been quoted for expressing that “picking up a camera was lifesaving” to him and “better than any therapy” he ever had. Drifter has now been sold at auction with Sotheby’s in 2021 and traded on OpenSea for his “Where my Vans Go” collection which has yielded over $5 million ETH in trading volume.

Evolving from their early Podmork sculpture and painting to the incorporation of digital art, their 2018 genesis "Girl Next Door" exemplifies what they have become known for: bright, distinctive colors, their signature flux of consciousness hack patterns, and cultural commentary mixed with references to art history and Web3. Now with a dedicated international community around their art, Hackatao's work, including partnerships with Sotheby’s, Christie's and Blondie, as well as innovative projects like "Queens + Kings" and "R E M I X M E," has excited and moved Web3 natives and art lovers alike.

After training machine learning models from scratch on her custom personal datasets, Sarin generates bold and uncanny bricolage from her own drawing, paintings, and photography.

Originally launched in 2010, Killer Acid finds a balance between head shop and punk rock, hearkening back to the artist’s tumultuous and technicolor coming-of-age in New York City. Killer Acid entered the NFT space in 2018 on SuperRare.

Her work explores digital technology and its effects on human perception, media, social structures, and communication, and has been exhibited in both digital and physical realms. In 2020, during the Coronavirus lockdown, Kim continued to explore the creative potential to utilize screens as digital instruments of well-being by creating “Mars House,” a completely virtual environment using her digital zen philosophy as the first “Metaverse home” for sale as an NFT in history. Krista Kim’s Continuum installation was featured in Times Square every midnight in Feb 2021. She wrote a Metaverse essay for New York Times, and is the first Metaverse artist of the permanent LACMA collection. Krista was chosen by Louis Vuitton as a #Louis200 visionary in celebration of Louis’ 200th birthday; Krista is contributing Metaverse Editor for Vogue Singapore; Top 30 Most Influential People of the Metaverse by Read and Write Magazine; Architectural Digest AD100, NFTy50 by Fortune Magazine. Kim made an iconic collaboration with Lanvin in 2018.

Her work depicts the lost ancient cities, alien habitats, and sacred temples of her imagination. Mari’s intricate diorama worlds have been featured in exhibitions in New York, Milan, Abu Dhabi, and the Metaverse.

His paintings are a melding of order, chaos, geometric shapes and delicate color palettes, like a sort of boolean poetry made by a transhuman impressionist. Exploring historical aesthetics with code, he’s redefining what it means to paint in an increasingly digital world.

With titles like “The Day I Felt God” and “The Day I Met You,” his work often portrays transcendent human moments using a vivid tableau of celestial and geometric figures. By anchoring his hand-drawn compositions with a universal subject or feeling, he finds the harmony in being both highly relatable and ineffable.

Prior to joining the NFT space OSF spent most of career in traditional finance as a trader for Barclays. Faruq invested alongside his business partner Michael Anderson, otherwise known as “Mando.” The duo together formed Canary Labs, which operates a handful of NFT projects as well as investing and advising in the web3 space. Independently, OSF has created numerous 1/1 artworks, one of which in April of 2022 sold on the secondary market for 82.88 ETH on SuperRare. The recognizable skull-faced character in a hoodie seen throughout most of OSF’s work and said to be a semi- autobiographical persona. “Down bad but never dead.” Through the world of his skull-faced character “rektguy,” OSF depicts glitchy and ghostly scenes that reference the degenerate side of crypto culture and the frenetic pace of our online lives. Neon cityscapes and price charts flicker with the same intensity as the playfully grim subjects in his haunted illustrations.

As a self-taught artist, Osinachi has become commonly known for his characteristic use of Microsoft Word as the medium to produce his artwork. It was in spite of limited resources at his disposal that he was inspired and able to push boundaries in order to craft art with a tool that nobody had thought to use in a similar manner. A once overlooked tool now utilized to create a body of work that reflected on his personal experiences within a technological environment. It is through this medium that Osinachi has been able to exploit the limited design tools and craft an array of vibrant narrative illustrations that both explore and challenge topics of equality, diversity, and environmentalism through a color palette inspired by the textiles found in Nigeria. Osinachi draws on many of his own personal experiences throughout his work as a way of identifying a relatable story or social topic that he aims to portray and explore. It is through Osinachi's innovative use of Microsoft Word, his powerful storytelling, and recognizable style that he has become known today as the foremost African Crypto artist. Osinachi was the first African artist to have had his work digitally auctioned with Christie's Auction house in Europe and has since sold and exhibited artwork throughout the world.

His work explores the automatic nature of the unconscious mind through the varied reactions of his subjects, with an instantly recognizable aesthetic that colors dark, pivotal moments with the brash energy of crypto’s wild west.

He draws inspiration from a childhood immersed in video games and dreams of being an impressionist painter. His combination of the two passions resulted in a robotic art studio that has earned multiple accolades including a TEDx Talk, the Short List at Barbican’s DevArt Competition, and First Prize in Robot Art 2018.

His work incorporates elements of glitch art and internet-born art movements like vaporwave, and his “64 GALLON TOTER” spawned trashart, the first truly cryptoart-native stylistic movement. Inspiring hundreds of remixes of the original, the piece has been compared to Duchamp’s Readymades and launched discussion around the influence of meme culture and Dada on the cryptoart space. His work often incorporates references to popular culture, memes, and crypto.

Sam’s pursuit is to make human art with human values about our stumbles, realizations, and fight to share reality. To create art within the digital space we actually operate in today that preserves the tactility, code, and values of the space we move through physically. Through focusing that technique towards a human story, his goal is to provide a bridge for the natural art world as it extends into a digital network.<br></br> <br></br>Currently, he is working on his series, LUCI which debuted on SuperRare in October 2021 and most recently was auctioned at Christie’s. LUCI is a search for a feeling that is as ancient as it is futuristic—something viscerally true in all of us, regardless of time or interpretation.

Known as a pioneer in the crypto art space, her work merges humor, mysticism and psychedelic with the interplay of cutting edge and obsolete technologies. She works across mediums, and is known for combining digital and analog video techniques with the use of VHS. Since early 2019, she's been tokenizing single and limited editions of her screen-based artwork on the blockchain as NFTs. In June 2021, her work was part of “Natively Digital,” the first curated NFT sale at Sotheby’s, and “CryptOGs: The Pioneers of Crypto Art”, the first curated NFT sale at Bonhams in conjunction with SuperRare. In June 2022, she was named to the inaugural NFT100 list by NFTNow as one of the top artists working with NFTs. Her GIF Art has over 6.9 billion views on Giphy. She is a Jeopardy! Champion.

His work often references mental health, art history, and current events. Most recently, his body of work has been focused on inner dialogue with the blue rooms, and his latest work, “BLeU” went viral on Twitter after the artist licensed it with CC0, offering it up to the cryptoart community to remix and share.

Beginning in the 2000’s as an artist on Tumblr, his artworks draw from internet aesthetics, memes, and popular culture, and are brought to life with bright colors, bold lines, and humor. Through his iconic glitch motif, XCOPY explores themes of dystopia and death.

Though their body of work stretches wider, they are best known for art whose symbolism and imagery evoke the tender authority of tarot decks. Indeed, Yosnier’s art feels spiritual, depicting the complexities of pain, love, resilience, and joy in soft, glowing pastels, but simultaneously grounds itself in those very emotions, tapping into the most bittersweet nuances of the human experience. Having around fifty-thousand followers on Twitter and ten-thousand on Instagram, it is obvious that their art has struck a chord with ample hearts and minds.