Steve Turner Gallery, Los Angeles
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Troy, New York, The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC), Petra Cortright: Bridal Shower, August 5–21, 2013 (another example exhibited)
London, Frieze Foundation, Frieze Film, October 16–19, 2013 (another example exhibited)
Los Angeles, Steve Turner Contemporary, ✖✗✘ BLank BLANk bLANk, November 9–December 21, 2013 (another example exhibited)
Stockholm, Carl Kostyál Gallery, Petra Cortright, April 12–May 4, 2014 (another example exhibited)
Berlin, Société, Petra Cortright: PETWELT, September 10–November 22, 2014 (another example exhibited)
Los Angeles, UTA Artist Space, Petra Cortright: CAM WORLS, February 24–April 7, 2018 (another example exhibited)
Roslyn Sulcas, “Frieze London Makes Way for the Unexpected,” The New York Times, October 16, 2013, online (another example illustrated)
Robert Urquhard, “The Passion of Petra Cortright,” Vice, October 22, 2013, online
Cait Munro, “Cheat Sheet: Peter Lik, Petra Cortright, Naked Art and Elizabeth’s Taylor’s Jewels,” Artnet, February 28, 2015, online (another example illustrated)
Jordan Riefe, “From the browser to the gallery: Petra Cortright's 'post-internet' art,” The Guardian, July 22, 2015, online (another example illustrated)
Will Brown, “Petra Cortright: ‘I wanted to raise questions about the way we view women in a digital landscape’,” Studio International, September 23, 2015, online
Ever Gold [Projects], ed., “Petra Cortright: In Conversation With Courtney Malick — SFAQ Issue 16 (2014),” Artsy, November 26, 2016, online (another example illustrated)
American
Taking from the tradition of gestural painting, Los Angeles-based artist Petra Cortright uses floral imagery to recreate Monet-type works on aluminum. But unlike those who preceded her, Cortright is digitally charged in her practice and renders analog images into "digital brushstrokes." She sources her images online and manipulates them in Photoshop in the hopes of constructing a palimpsestic sprawl. With the hint of glitch and a pinch of selfie culture, her work is self-reflexive in that it studies the progression of Abstract Expressionism into our current historical moment.
Cortright started her career by posting self-portrait videos taken by webcam to her own YouTube channel. The videos feature the artist scrolling through various recording effects.
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