StandardVision Artist Showcase: A Bold Exploration of Physical Forms in the Digital World with Artist Petra Cortright in Collaboration with FEMMEBIT
For the month of June, StandardVision has collaborated with FEMMEBIT to curate a site-specific showcase from digital painter and multimedia artist Petra Cortright on view across a number of StandardVision’s large-scale exterior displays throughout Los Angeles through June 30th.
An American artist working in video, painting, and digital media, Petra Cortright is best known for creating digital and physical images using computer software. She became renowned for exploring the world of digital performance and consumption, and came to prominence with her early video self-portraits produced with a computer camera. Considered to be the leading artist of the Post-internet art movement, Cortright was one of the key figures of the Net-Art movement, long before smartphones allowed for easy digital manipulation of videos and pictures.
The artist mines the internet for new ideas and images, which she then manipulates, edits, and distorts by using Photoshop. The layering process takes time, for she diligently adds and subtracts shapes, colors, and digital brushstrokes to reveal the final version of each piece. These paintings—perfectly blending both abstract and figurative elements—are printed on various materials, including aluminum, linen, and paper. These works also exist digitally on the blockchain as NFTs.
Born in Southern California, Petra Cortright’s core practice is the creation and distribution of digital and physical images using consumer or corporate software. She lives and works in Altadena, CA, and studied Fine Arts at Parsons School of Design, The New School, New York, NY, and the California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA. Her works are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art (New York), The Péréz Museum (Miami), The Bass Museum (Miami), Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Hammer Museum (Los Angeles), Moderna Museet (Stockholm), MOTI (Breda) in collaboration with Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), MCA Chicago, Kadist Foundation (San Francisco), BAMPFA (Berkeley, CA), the San Jose Museum of Art (San Jose, CA), Rhizome’s Net Art Anthology, and MOCA Los Angeles.
FEMMEBIT is a grassroots platform and triennial festival of Los Angeles-based artists working in video and new media. As a celebration that includes curated programs, symposiums, screenings and exhibitions, FEMMEBIT examines today’s society at large as an ever-changing medium. This platform investigates how artists working with and between technologies enables progressive ideas to be born through active creation, and how we, as proponents of these fields, must work together to shape, share, and grow a future receptive to progress. Curators Kate Parsons and Janna Avner integrate their own artistic expertise into these projects, with a passion for uncovering innovation and revolution through mediums such as video, animation and XR.
Catch works by Petra Cortright on view at 3rd Street Crossing, 888 N Vermont, Courtyard Marriott LA Live, and Kurve LA, through June 30th, and learn more about the artist and FEMMEBIT on Instagram:
