Four Days, Four Artists, Four Drops

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  • October 1, 2024
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Prints are Gamma's fresh take on editions, enabling partner artists to create, on-chain editions from a single high-resolution original. Our very own Gamma Artist Ambassadors have hand-selected four different artists to release a set of Prints over the course of four days, in a guest curation.

Let's meet these four artists and learn more about their pieces.

 

Gamma Artist Ambassador: Pawel Dudko   |   Curated Artist: Olga 

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About Olga  | Find her on X

Olga Fradina is a generative artist and interior designer living in Kyiv, Ukraine. Her work is characterized by abstract and biomorphic forms as well as an exploration of emotional states. Her creative programming work has been exhibited internationally at Verse, Unit London, and Hodlers, and her interior design projects have been published in publications such as Dezeen, Architectural Digest, and Elle Decoration. Fradina studied Graphic Design at the Kyiv Art and Industrial Institute.

About her drop, titled 00000.27

Inspired by the idea of play, we ask ourselves: does it have meaning? And while the game may seem pointless, the emotions it evokes are full of depth and significance.

At first glance, our canvas appears empty, but it holds potential — a moment of emotional explosion, where random patterns, like impulses, suddenly emerge and fill the space.

Each detail of the artwork is an invitation to reflection, a dive into the game, where meaning is revealed through feelings. This piece reminds us that in the simplest moments, something extraordinary can be found, just like in the game of emotions.

Pawel on Olga

I've been following Olga Fradina's work for years, and what initially captivated me to her art is her ability to balance algorithmic techniques with a deep spatial awareness, a skill she honed through her background in interior design. 

This unique combination results in compositions that feel meticulously balanced, where open space harmonizes with intricate detail. She's also a recognized and accomplished artist, with her generative works published in Verse, Unit London, and Art Blocks Curated.

Fradina’s work stands out because it offers a universal experience, giving viewers the freedom to explore without being confined to a set narrative. I admire her ability to create a meditative atmosphere that invites personal interpretation. Her style remains distinct, yet she leaves room for each person to connect with her pieces in their own way.

One of the reasons I keep coming back to her work is her versatility. She explores different techniques while maintaining a serene, yet powerful energy. Her art often feels like a moment captured from an ongoing process, like glimpses into another reality. It resembles an elemental force — calm, majestic, and imbued with incredible latent potential, as if capable of unleashing irresistible energy.

I chose to curate Fradina because of this remarkable consistency in her ability to evoke emotion, openness to interpretation of her artworks, and the sheer strength of her artistic vision. She brings something special to the table, and I want to see her work appreciated and supported within the broader art community.

 

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Gamma Artist Ambassador: Empress Trash   |   Curated Artist: Iteration

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About Iteration | Find her on X

Jess AKA Iteration hails from Texas and has been creating art in any way she can for over 20 years. She's inspired by nature, nostalgia, technology, and everything around her. Iteration's work is often colorful and takes notes from the 80's and 90's to bring you back in time while also giving a new outlook on the past and future.

About her drop, titled let my heart fade with the desert sun

In the quiet of the night, beneath an endless sky, I release the weight of memories long carried. The past clings like grains of sand, but as the moonlight softens the edges of the dunes, I learn to let go. Some shadows are meant to be left behind, to drift away with the cool desert winds.

Empress on Iteration

Iteration is an artist I met through Crypto Art when I first started in 2021. What drew me to her work initially was the vaporwave overtones - the color palette and compositions I always found soothing. Over the years of knowing her since, I have learned she is an intelligent and driven artist in and out of crypto. She has co-founded her own studio — Go Polaris Studio — where she does video production, photography, weddings, and graphic and apparel design along with having solid grounding in traditional illustration skills.

As a self proclaimed glitch and cringe queen, even in seemingly more serious work there is some thread of humor or lightness to be found in it from the confidence she shows in not being afraid to express herself along with the rebellious spirit that is a prerequisite to being a glitch artist. Always willing to explore new tech or tools, she has stayed on the edge of the rapid development of AI while keeping herself grounded in traditional methodologies. There is a sprinkling of nostalgia — even if not direct in her work — that humanizes everything she creates even though a lot of times the human form is not present in her work except in marble statues that are indicative of vaporwave vibes.

I curated her - and curate her often - blatantly because I think she has an underappreciated talent and quietness to her work and presence with consistency that other artists struggle to maintain and I want to see more of her art and support for her within the Bitcoin arts community.

 

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Gamma Artist Ambassador: Ol1y   |   Curated Artist: Luke Grindhouse

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About Luke | Find him on X

Luke Gr1ndhouse is a self-taught, figurative digital artist. He creates AI-assisted art through several tools, including Photoshop and hand refining, tackling the themes of liminality, identity, and the path of intuition that leads to our true selves through our subconscious.

His works were recently awarded (Optimism ‘We Love The Art’ contest), selected by Forbes Web3 for displaying in New York, at the World Trade Centre - Oculus, exhibited all over Belgium in July thanks to Artcrush Gallery, and worldwide during the last 2 years (Beeple’s Studios, NFTNYC2024, Art Basel Miami, Amsterdam, Milan, Florence, Dubai, Hague, Tokyo, Bali, and others).

Luke’s art is focused on the emotion born from the freedom left to the viewer. To achieve this sense of resonance and inner recognition, a mix between subtle surrealism, and magical realism is pursued, avoiding direct and evident symbolism or striking solutions. Luke believes that we can reach the deepest part of our inner world only by abandoning a rational approach and embracing the world of intuition, for this reason, he refutes a direct explanation of the elements within his works.

The concept of emptiness/negative space - ma 間 – and that of the unfathomable wondrous essence of things - yūgen 幽玄 – are also particularly relevant as he brings his experience in haiku poetry and martial arts into his paintings (see in this regard his latest collection, Myō).

The subjects of his paintings are archetypal and reminiscent of a oneiric, subconscious world. Heralds of deeper layers of reality and bearers of mystery, to which we can resound and cannot fully grasp. The anthropological concept of liminality takes on a peculiar connotation, linked to the threshold between an aware yet comfortable world on one side and, on the other, the labyrinth but also the infinity of our inner self.


About Luke's Drop, titled Trade Winds

Trade Winds embodies the essence of Luke Gr1ndhouse’s art, both technically and most importantly in terms of emotion, themes, and sensitivity.

The piece was born in a particularly challenging period in Luke’s life: it tackles the themes of change, acceptance, crisis, and opportunity. In its liminal approach, the scene presents a figure standing on a threshold, a storm approaching far at the horizon. There’s a permeating sense of anticipation and possibility in a moment depicted right before the happening of things.

In Luke’s style, the work unfolds in subtle surrealism and magical realism. It’s a oneiric-wide scene where, as usual, easy symbolism and a forced sense of the bizarre are avoided in favor of freedom of interpretation and pure intuition. Here, an intuitive approach is suggested more than a rational one.

The concepts of negative space (ma 間) and the mystery permeating the essence of things (yūgen 幽玄) are also two themes — taken from his haiku poetry practice — that we find in this piece, like in many others of Luke.

Ol1y on Luke

I’ve known Luke for over two years now. We were introduced through a mutual friend, and quickly began bonding over our appreciation of art and frustration that there didn’t seem to be any groups talking about collecting digital art, so we formed one with a couple of other friends. I’ve always admired the way that Luke talks about art in general, but even more so the way he talks about his own work, drawing references to other artists, poets, and philosophers. Luke practices an impressive level of attention to detail, and his process involves a large array of different tools and practices. Over the years, he has really honed his skill and has been able to develop a style which is truly his own.

When I was approached by Gamma to curate a guest artist print, Luke was the first person I thought of, and I can think of no one else I would rather be curating for their Ordinals debut.

 

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Gamma Artist Ambassador: TheArtist   |   Curated Artist: Zoë Moss

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About Zoë | Find her on instagram

After receiving a BA Hons in fine art, Moss has exhibited in shows such as the Royal Academy Summer exhibition, Cork street Gallery and the National open art competition. She has been shortlisted for many exhibitions including the BP portrait prize and John Moores Painting prize. As a published artist she has been featured in publications such as 'Who's Who in Art'. Zoë is currently producing various private and commercial commissions. She is in the process of creating her own children's book and working on her third solo show. 

Moss is predominantly a photo-realist oil painter, inspired by details and the concept of paint versus photography. She feels spending so long on a piece allows the artist to study their relationship with the subject. 

She has recently been visiting comic cons and is producing work based around superheroes and famous icons with a humorous narrative.

About her drop, titled Astro Boy

‘Apopriation’ is a new series by Zoë Moss. It is a set of oil paintings that appropriates pop artists’ work in the same way they themselves used elements of popular culture in their own practice. The pieces are photorealist oil paintings of such artworks, enclosed in a glass bell jar that both preserves the art and displays it for all to behold. From Koons to Kusama, it highlights the recognisable imagery of todays art market and puts it under the bell jar.

ASTRO BOY’ oil paint on board, puts this iconic figure under the bell jar. The character, created by Osamu Tezuka, is a young android with human emotions. It is a major collectors item.

TheArtist on Zoe

I love Ordinals because they represent the intersection of art and technology, where structure meets chaos, and creativity balances with precision. This dynamic contrast is also why I'm drawn to Zoë Moss’s work—she masterfully combines traditional, photorealistic techniques with contemporary ideas and modern culture. In a world where culture often overshadows the value of classical training, Zoë seamlessly bridges them, and the results are truly captivating.

 

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