StandardVision Artist Showcase: Exploring the Fringes of Painting with Fizz Pop's Still Life Series
With a practice rooted in traditional painting and visual studies, the artist has been generating a digital landscape of fauna for the past 22 years. He created his first digitally painted flower using Photoshop in 2001, and the project intuitively evolved to examine still life & landscape traditions. Over the past three years Fizz Pop has focused on advancements in creative technology through digital painting and NFTs—exploring online creation and digital collecting as he connects with a global community of artists engaged in a digital practice.
For the artist’s Still Life series, Fizz Pop was captured by the extraordinary paintings that came from the Dutch Golden Age with its Tulip Mania, and began creating digital interpretations of select oil paintings. During 1637, Tulip Mania created the first speculative bubble and became fertile ground for a painting revolution. At one point the cost of a single tulip bulb exceeded the cost of a painting. In the same spirit, the 2020 boom of cryptocurrency lay ground for the digital art revolution that continues to evolve and adapt to our time.
Artist Christopher Rodrigues, working under the pseudonym Fizz Pop, is a UK-born, Canada-based digital painter working at the intersection of digital and physical landscapes. His artistic practice, while rooted in traditional painting, explores the fringes of painting where it touches other mediums both traditional & digital. His work often uses sci-fi, fantasy & mythology to explore issues concerning environment, identity & spirituality. The artist has been working under the pseudonym Fizz Pop - a gender-free anonymous handle that allowed me freedom to explore the digital space in a way that felt safe & exciting. While his initial focus has been on static digital painting, Fizz Pop’s practice is continually expanding to explore the influx of new tools to create digital art—including animation and video, generative processes, code-based and AI tools.
Catch selected works by Fizz Pop on view at Melrose & Spaulding, 3rd Street Crossing, Kurve LA, and 888 N Vermont, through July 31st, and learn more about the artist on his Instagram.
