Wednesday 9th October: Petra Cortright, Garnet Glycerine GSMCRK and other stories, a Frieze Week Afterparty

Shoreditch Arts Club and Daata invite you to a Frieze Week Party showcasing video artworks by Petra Cortright, with a live music performance by Jacob Gryn. 

These 6 videos originated from a project with Rhizome at the New Museum Seven on Seven 10th edition with Petra Cortright and Carl Tashian. Carl wrote a photoshop script, which gently cycles through layers of Petra's painting file. Petra paints in Photoshop, and almost every brush stroke you see is on its own layer - the script subtly animates the framework of the brushstrokes and architecture of the painting and reveals different versions. The videos in this series are created by opening a painting file, running the script, and screen recording the script running. This is an ongoing theme in Petra's work exploring the fluid relationship between painting and video. Music by Jacob Gryn. 

Daata and The Bass Museum in Miami Beach collaborated to commission these works and they world premiered at the New World Symphony’s Soundscape Park during Art Basel in Miami Beach in 2020. Artworks can be viewed and acquired online at http://daata.art 

This event was conceived to coincide with Frieze Art Fair, London and the inaugural Jodhpur Art Festival in India, where the works will also be premiered. The work will be on view at Shoreditch Arts Club throughout October 2024.

Garnet Glycerine GSMCRK and other stories by Petra Cortright – HD Video 2020. Music by Jacob Gryn. Commissioned by Daata & The Bass Museum

Petra Cortright (b. 1986, Santa Barbara, CA) is a contemporary artist whose multifaceted artistic practice stems from creating and manipulating digital files. Cortright’s digitally-conceived artworks physically exist in many forms - printed onto archival surfaces, projected onto existing architecture, or mechanically carved from stone. A notable member of what became known as the ‘Post Internet’ art movement of the mid-to-late-2000s with her YouTube videos and online exhibitions, Cortright later began to laboriously craft digital paintings by creating layer upon layer of manipulated images in Photoshop which she then rendered onto materials such as aluminum, linen, paper, and acrylic sheets. Cortright’s role as an artist is a blend of painter, graphic designer, editor, and producer; culminating in a singular artistic reflection of contemporary visual culture.

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