Petra Cortright
cuban rum cynide +metal +salts/daisy eagle tigershark
Lot Closed
June 7, 03:13:10 AM GMT
Estimate
28,000 - 34,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Petra Cortright
b. 1986
cuban rum cynide +metal +salts/daisy eagle tigershark
Executed in 2021.
Digital painting on anodized aluminum
29 1/4 x 48 in. (74.3 x 121.9 cm)
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Courtesy of the artist and 1301 PE
Petra Cortright (b. 1986, Santa Barbara, CA; lives in Los Angeles, CA) is a key figure from the .net art movement of the early 2010s. Known for her paintings, sculptures, installations, videos, and webcam-generated self-portraits, Cortright uses the visual language of the internet to create complex images that decenter the physical art object. Cortright was included in the MCA exhibition The Living End: Painting and Other Technologies, 1970–2020 (2024–25). She has participated in exhibitions at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; New Museum, New York; and Ludwig Museum, Budapest, among others. Her work is in the MCA Collection and in many other permanent collections, including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Pérez Art Museum Miami; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam; and Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, CA.