Petra Cortright, Digital Painting: Live on Zoom | Rhizome x Artwrld

​Season 3 of Artwrld Sessions is presented in partnership with Rhizome, the international hub for new media art.

​​​Each session is recorded for a live online audience and co-presented by Michael Connor, Executive Director of Rhizome, and Josh Goldblum, Artwrld Founder and CEO. This week we welcome internationally acclaimed artist pioneering digital artist Petra Cortright.

​Petra Cortright’s core practice is the creation and distribution of digital and physical images using consumer or corporate software.

She became renowned for making self-portrait videos that use her computer’s webcam and default effects tools, which she would then upload to YouTube and caption with spam text.

Cortright’s paintings on aluminum, linen, paper, or acrylic are created in Photoshop using painting software and appropriated images, icons, and marks. The digital files are endlessly modifiable, but at a “decisive moment” they are translated into two-dimensional objects.

​About Petra Cortright
Cortright lives and works in Altadena, CA. She studied Fine Arts at Parsons School of Design, The New School, New York, NY (2008) and the California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA (2004). 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 (LACMA), 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.  

About Rhizome
Rhizome champions internet art and culture through commissions, exhibition, and digital preservation, online at rhizome.org and in partnership with its longtime affiliate and host, the New Museum in New York City.

​​​​Founded in 1996 by artist Mark Tribe as an intimate email list connecting some of the first artists to work on the web and now—more than twenty years later—a thriving nonprofit with robust, multi-tiered programming, Rhizome has played an integral role in the history, definition, and growth of art engaged with the internet.

​About Artwrld

​​​​Artwrld is a social discovery app that makes the art world more welcoming, accessible and easier to explore. Now live in NYC and LA. ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ More at: artwrld.com